FDA approves new 6-in-1 vaccine for toddlers

kxan ^ | Feb. 18, 2019 | Arezow Doost

[bgill]

One less shot and maybe fewer tears is what a new vaccine promises. The FDA approved a new combination vaccine called Vaxelis designed for children ages six weeks to 4-years-old. The FDA says it keeps them from contracting diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B and invasive disease due to haemophilus influenzae type B. Right now infants get three shots to protect them against the six diseases, but with the new vaccine, there will be fewer shots. "You’re getting vaccinated sooner and more effectively at a younger age and hopefully it will be more widely available to everyone, and you’re not going to miss vaccines," explained Dr. Brian Temple with Beansprout Pediatrics in Bee Cave. "When you have multiple different shots there are errors so it’s nice to have it all in one."

[montag813]

This is insane

[nickedknack]

I had five shots at one time when I joined my ship in the Philippines — medical malpractice. A couple of days later, I developed a sebaceous cyst in the shoulder the size of a baseball. Sick Bay refused to treat it — more medical malpractice. I cut and drained the cyst myself, no anaesthetic. Still bothers me on occasion, 30+ years later. If five are too much for an adult, six almost certainly are too much for a baby or toddler.

[Mom MD]

Ever seen a baby die of meningitis? You might not be so tough then

[AppyPappy]

It’s designed for people (women) who can’t stand to hear their child cry. Yes, there are people who won’t vaccinate their kids because it upsets them.

[BlueHorseShoe]

I don’t allow my cats to get required vaccinations without at least a three week interval passing to the second vaccination, if it’s even necessary. And I’m not an anti vaxer. It causes too much trauma on small bodies to inject so many things at once.

[so_real]

I read the comments thus far in the thread. It is refreshing to see that barbs are not being thrown. Perhaps it is safe to assume both pro and anti vaccination proponents agree that spreading vaccinations over time sufficient for the immature immune systems to manage them is much safer for the child.

[SgtHooper]

Prepare to get needles in the eye from the pro-vac-sers for that remark.

[Reily]

In any population there will be people who a vaccine\medicine will cure, do nothing for, maim or kill. The number of maimed and/or killed will never be zero! Yes it sucks to win that lottery. My father later in life became deathly allergic to aspirin. Aspirin something as about as safe as safe can be.

[AppyPappy]

It sounds fishy. It could be Guillain-Barré but I doubt a vaccine at 4 did that. It sounds like they contracted Meningitis and they didn’t get that from a vaccine.

[JayGalt]

Because to prevent meningitis we need to give the kids all the injections at once. IDTS

[so_real]

Ever seen a baby die of meningitis? You might not be so tough then

I nearly have, in person. It was 10 days in the hospital not knowing for the first 5 if the baby would survive. Hardest thing ever. If memory serves neisseria meningitidis presented approximately three days following a DTAP vaccination. Coincidence? Tainted vaccine? Weakened immune system? Hard to say. But the timing is suspect. Immensely suspect. And with so many parents having experienced this same event first hand themselves, having lived through the suffering or impairment or death of their own children, try not to be hard on those faced with trust issues today. There is legitimate justification for concern even if you haven't witnessed it yourself.

[grania]

Now we know why there has been so much media hype to demonize those who don't get the Measles vaccination, so the herd will be protected from invader disease.

There has to be a statistical analysis somewhere about what is "acceptable" percentages for death and permanent health issues. This is insane. What's next? Newborns getting a vaccination before they can leave the hospital?

It's a societal situation, too. Maybe if infants and young children weren't spending so much time in crowded daycare and preschool, they wouldn't need all of these vaccinations at such a young age.

[JayGalt]

Unfortunately there are many of these stories, like the baby referenced above whom many of us on FR are praying for. It pays to be cautious instead of embracing convenience of less visits with a larger immunologic challenge at each visit.

https://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/Vaccinations—Know-the-risks-and-failures-.aspx

The CDC’s childhood vaccine schedule recommends all children receive 69 doses of 16 vaccines with 50 doses of 14 vaccines given between the day of birth and age 18. 36 The majority of children in the U.S. today receive three times as many vaccinations as children received in 1983.

The 2013 IOM Committee, which examined the safety of the current federally recommended early childhood vaccine schedule found that it had not been fully scientifically evaluated:

[thesearethetimes...]

BTTT!!!

[Mom MD]

Ok ever seen a baby die of pertussis? A child crippled by polio? Pick your disease of choice the vaccines in this combo are all for devastating illnesses young children can contract. My kids and grandkids are protected

[laplata]

You’re very welcome, Amy.

[exDemMom]

Children are exposed to thousands of antigens every day. Given this fact, can you explain the scientific basis of your claim that their bodies cannot tolerate the handful of antigens contained in this new combo vaccine?

[thesearethetimes...]

Evans?

May God rest his dear soul, and comfort his parents...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Bingo, you’ve nailed it.

Everything in medicine, like everything in life, requires a cost-benefit analysis.

If a disease has a particularly high fatality rate then perhaps you roll the dice and take the vaccine. But the government now mandates vaccines for diseases that have never killed anybody.

Also I think there is a bit of the old Star Trek thing at work here. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. If trials show a disease will likely cripple or kill 1 in 10,000 some public health bureaucrat decides that we can live writing them off.

[Buckeye McFrog]

All I know is, if the government ever tries to make ME take another vaccine, I’m going to sue, citing the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade that I have the right to control my own body.

That should tie our entire Federal Court system in knots for the next 29 years.