I see no reason for any of those shots for a newborn. Tell me what DTAP is for? Whooping cough? I remember my brother having it, and my daughter too. They lived.
Diptheria? When was the last case in the US?
Tetanus? I have taken a bunch of those, but I have never ever heard of a case.
Pneumonia shot? Horse droppings
Rotavirus? another bothersome malady, but not going to kill you.
What is the +
What is the A in the DTAP? Hep A? Did you know it is 100% curable, it ran through my family back in the 60’s. Two got it, parents were freaked, they then got shots to cure it. Don’t smear feces around, keep your house clean, and stay away from strangers. THERE, my vaccine. If you get it, take a Gamma Globulin shot.
ALL of those shots were unnecessary. Spread them out, pick and choose single doses, but don’t begin until the child is two years old.
The reason why Mothers are sold on vaccines? They want to get back to work, and to do that they need to DUMP them into daycare.
>Tetanus? I have taken a bunch of those, but I have never ever heard of a case.
My cousin had tetanus. He was in a wheelchair for about a year.
Insanity, indeed.
TDAP = tetanus, diphtheria, AND pertussis
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.
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!)
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.