Alternative Vaccine Schedule for Babies

The Bump ^ | Robert Sears MD

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There’s a demand for alternative schedules. Many new parents feel overwhelmed by the number of vaccines given to young babies today; 24 doses are given in the first year alone. When parents realize the medical establishment is trying to push unnecessary vaccines on them, they begin to question the entire process. The result is that parents simply want to vaccinate more carefully, and be smarter about it, instead of blindly following the system.

There’s a Well-Planned Alternative

The alternative schedule [I outline in The Vaccine Book] is designed to provide infants with only the vaccines that protect against diseases that pose a legitimate threat to them. And it does so in a timely manner, so infants aren’t left unprotected against anything that might pose a risk. It provides on-time protection against whooping cough, rotavirus, Hib disease and pneumococcal disease—four illnesses that can be potentially fatal for infants (although fatalities are extremely rare in the US). The CDC schedule gives these four vaccines at two, four and six months (along with Hep B and Polio). My alternative schedule staggers them: whooping cough and rotavirus at two, four and six months; Hib and pneumococcal at three, five and seven months; Hep B is delayed for a few years; and polio isn’t started until nine months.

…Aluminum, in particular, is better handled by the body when given in smaller amounts spread out over time, instead of larger doses all at once. Aluminum is necessary in many vaccines in order for them to work well, yet it’s known to be toxic when injected in high doses. The same was true for mercury when it was in vaccines, although it hasn’t been used in US vaccines since 2002.

[desertsolitaire]

Thanks.

[9YearLurker]

YW!

[Glad2bnuts]

That sounds like parents get a choice without government intervention. A choice with no coercion? That sounds amazing, we’ll call if freedom.

[stanne]

I did my own vaccine schedule. I live in a free country. I act like it

I ignore doctors’ and medical staffs’ sneering judgemental attitudes and make my own informed decisions

And I get informed

On going into preschool a kid needs many vaccines in this country so we did that I’m not insane

One clime- what do other first world countries do?

Then- marry a man with a serious ability to provide for a family. I mean already in a carreer that’s going well

Then be able to stay home with kids as needed and or desired. That’s freedom. Everything else is a fake -when raising kids

Period.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

I see the vaccine scheduke for kids - it’s well more than what I got as an infant in the late eighties. Personally, I wouldn’t vaccinate beyond what I got as a baby and a child.

DTAP, MMR; I get that. Those make sense. Chickenpox? Seriously? No. I survived it just fine, and have had shingles numerous times since due to a suppressed immune system. It sucks, but it’s easily treatable, and cheaply.

I have to say, the schedule has gotten really excessive.

By the way - your local pharmacy can and will give these vaccines. We’re trained to. Choose at your discretion. Often, the pharmqcists are far more knowlegeable than the doctors when it comes to drugs and vaccines. They’re the most highly-qualified medical professional you can just pick up a phone and speak to without an appointment. They have 7+ years of doctoral education specifically in the chemistry of drugs.

[FamiliarFace]

That’s an idea, but what about the infant who’s taken care of by the stay-at-home mom, but older siblings are in school, and somehow the infant gets infected with Hib? Happened to my cousin’s kid. The baby was initially treated for an ear infection, but it was really Hib, and the baby died a few days later. It was very sad.

There are some things I think it would be ok to vaccinate infants against, and Hib is one that I think is important.

[Chickensoup]

I am not an anti vaxxer.

However

Hib and dpt are the two we had at about 6 or 8 weeks apart. Polio at about one year.

Mmr only with first one... she reacted. No more.

If you don’t vaxx you homeschool and church only with other homeschool families.

Imho....

[FamiliarFace]

I’m not an antivaxxer either. I don’t like many of them.There are some vaccines that have their place. (Truth in posting, I actually was involved in clinical research for the Hib vaccine. Total happenstance to my cousin’s kid, but about a year later.)

My oldest had a BAD reaction to his first DPT. Our very older, wise pediatrician said, “no more for him.” He only got the diphtheria and tetanus after that. Pertussis (whooping cough) was a problem for him. Thankfully most of that had been eradicated by the time he was an adult. By then, his immune system had caught up, so when he had his own children, he could get the TDAP without a problem.

As far as I’m concerned, we need to be very careful with our vaccines. Big Pharma doesn’t GAS. Sorry if that’s crude, $Money$ is their bottom line. And I don’t begrudge the capitalist side, it’s just that real people’s health is the other side of that coin, and on that coin flip, I will ALWAYS side with the people’s health issue.

[Chickensoup]

I slow and no vaxxed all 4. Slow meaning that I brought them in over an extended period of time for the vaxxes I chose to give and no vaxx because I did not give some.

My physician worked with us.

No Hep B No chixpox no mmr.

Just hib and dpt. And polio slowly.

I don’t think the group would work with us today.

He did say that I had the healthiest bunch. 1cear infection which I treated with warn olive oil and a heating pad. 2 cases of Croup which of course is par. And 2 had RSV. One hospitalized twice with it because it was born with compromised lungs