Posted on 01/23/2023 9:09:22 AM PST by ransomnote
Yes, eventually. This was many, many moons ago.
TDAP = tetanus, diphtheria, AND pertussis
Why give a baby Pepcid and Omaprazil? How would you know the baby has ACID REFLUX?
How long have you had persistent heartburn? Baby:waah waah wwwwwwwwAAAAH.
I had tetanus. It wasn’t fun. Caught it early enough, thank God, and got the shot.
I went wading in flood waters and had a scratch on my leg.
That is exactly when I got every one. Broke my wrist times 2, first two doses. Broke my foot, another. Got in a tussle, 12 stitches to lift my eyelid back..lol, another shot. Broke my ankle, another. IT IS A TREATMENT, not a vaccination if you can be injured and take a shot. My Mom always made us get one if we were cut and it was a certain amount of time since the last shot.
It wasn’t bundled up with the Xfinity package, want to watch Tucker Carlson, you get all the crap with it.
You "haven't heard of a case" because the numbers are way down, *thanks* to the vaccine. You should be grateful, but I doubt you will be. Perhaps others can learn.
Diphtheria is a horrible, horrible disease. It can create skin lesions and cause blindness, but the most life-threatening aspect is that it creates clinging adhesions (often described as "membrane") inside the throat that can suffocate a child. There are many stories of heroism pre-vaccine (Anne of Green Gables and Kipling for two) where a bystander cleared the membrane out of the throat and saved the child's life.
Tetanus is a very nasty disease, can cripple or kill. It is caused by a bacterium that is very common and lives in the soil, so anybody who works on a farm or gets their hands dirty in the yard is at risk. It causes uncontrollable muscle spasms that can break bones and tear ligaments and muscles. Ten percent mortality rate in the unvaccinated - and you suffer horribly with paralysis, heart complications, seizures . . . nobody in their right mind wants to risk it.
It's good that your brother and daughter recovered from whooping cough, but many did not. Before the vaccine, there were hundreds of thousands of cases in the U.S. - and "a few" thousand died. Others had permanent airway damage, seizures, and other consequences. Not insignificant if it happens to be your kid. Pertussis is less life-threatening in adults, but it is still painful and can lead to pneumonia. I know - because I had it (one of the annoying things about the adult TDaP vaccine is that the tetanus vaccine lasts longer than the pertussis, so you need to watch that. I didn't - but now I do.)
The pneumonia shots are mostly recommended for the elderly, who are most at risk. My kids never got a pneumonia shot.
There is no "A" vaccine in TDaP (that's why it's a little letter - it goes with Pertussis).
My kids vaccines were spaced out, with the cooperation of their pediatrician (an old-school, practical guy - rest in peace, Doc Bob, you were da man!)
6 month old got a covid vaccine.
The “a” in DTaP is for acellular because the pertussis portion of the shot is not a weakened or dead whole cell derived vaccine.
Whooping cough kills infants at a much higher rate than older children and adults, which is why we vax infants and not adults. Very young infants are highly likely to end up in PICU in 1st world countries, in 3rd world countries they die.
Hep A in infants and young children is generally asymptomatic which means they become super spreaders in daycare and may give it to Granny whom it is more likely to kill.
Rotavirus shots are about preventing daycare outbreaks and reducing infant hospitalizations.
Pneumonia shots are a very good idea, especially if you are an old toot with other chronic illnesses. In the young it does prevent secondary infections following other respiratory diseases and generally reduces childhood hospitalizations. The shots are cheap insurance.
All these vaccines actually prevent the recipient from getting and transmitting the diseases unlike the useless C19 vax which completely fails by having a negative cost/benefit ratio.
Ah, a proponent of forcible vaccinations, got it.
Did you know humans develop permanent immunity as time goes by. Most people are immune and passed it to their kids and grands, for most communicable diseases. What moms are immune to is passed to the children. It is why humans are still on Earth. Those who aren’t naturally immune die off and leave the strong ones. With vaccinations we are building humans with no natural immunity, so the theory goes.
Like with Polio, it died out because people survived and became immune. The rates of polio deaths dropped before the vaccines, the same happened with measles.
Thanks for the response. My solution was the same as my moms, keep the kids home and worry about it around age 5.
No daycare for my kids or any kids I knew of in the 60’s. If you needed someone to watch them, you had family, or a neighbor.
We were babysitters for the little ones beginning at 12. There were 7 of us kids. The oldest was only at this a short time, he was a jerk and my sister who was 2 years younger was better. We really did fine, my sister was fun but ruled with an iron fist. If you left the house without permission, she would tell. Which was worse than if we disobeyed parents. They enforced her rules more strictly, to give her the authority.
If she was mad at you, she wouldn’t tell Dad, she would hold it over your head. lol She was literally my Mom longer than my mom was, I miss her.
Polio did not die out. It’s endemic in Pakistan and breaks out regularly in shithole countries with low or no vaccination. And it circulates in US sewage regularly because of illegal immigration. We just don’t have outbreaks because we have high levels of vaccination for polio because it’s one disease parents are still scared of.
I don’t support any mandatory vaccination by government authority.
I am perfectly fine with daycares and schools requiring them and telling parents to find a new service. Life is all about choices and people should always free to make them. School choice should be a thing also.
I just think some vaccinations are good choices. Shingles vaccination is a great choice for people over 50.
Yikes.
That’s a little young for most vaccines. What a sad story.
It can treat but it is also good for seven (I think) years. Didn’t have a problem till it lapsed by 3. I’d get that again. It works. At least for me.
“That poor family.”
That “poor family” must have approved the shot cocktails.
I'm old enough to remember when kids were stricken. My best friend's dad was paralyzed from the waist down. Kid in our grade school carpool had the heavy iron braces on his legs -- to see him try to run on the playground was heartbreaking - I can still see him in my mind's eye struggling to keep up, that lurching gait, elbows pumping, but still keeping a smile on his face . . . so pitiful. He was killed in a car crash when we were all in our early teens.
It was very bad, and that is a GOOD vaccine (some are. Some aren't. And some people should get some, and others not. I'm not an absolutist.)
And measles can absolutely kill. Read this:
Roald Dahl's daughter Olivia died at age 7 from measles complications
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