Posted on 01/07/2002 1:15:35 PM PST by expose
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:50:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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A: I do not give Hep B at delivery and neither do ANY of the physicians in our medical group. We choose to give the vaccines later (like at one month or two).
You have no facts to back up your political opinion. On what basis do you make claims of "medical experimentation" on America's children? In no way are our vaccines "medical experimentation". The vaccines I use in my office are tested, proven, and safe. I have not had one incident of a reportable side effect to any of our vaccines.
While I respect your role as a parent, your characterization of doctors is grossly incorrect. I urge you to reconsider your opinion based on scientific facts.
You lack medical training, yet you hurl insults regarding the use of children's vaccines with PROVEN efficacy and PROVEN positive effects in our population. The attempts by some dunderheads to prevent protection and defense of AMERICAN families are clear.
Failure to immunize against contagious disease is a public health risk for us all. If we were immunizing against smallpox, would we really give a hoot about what Bin Ladin or Hussein has in their bioweapon stockpile? No. If we immunized our population against anthrax, would we have given a darn about these terrorist attacks... I doubt it.
Yet, a few scattered people hurl these ridiculous charges and totally unsubstantiated rumors in order to discredit vaccines that have CLEARLY saved thousands of lives already.
You are no conservative. Conservatives defend family. Your position on vaccines clearly shows you are not interested in protecting ANY child, let alone your own.
You lack medical training, yet you hurl insults regarding the use of children's vaccines with PROVEN efficacy and PROVEN positive effects in our population. The attempts by some dunderheads to prevent protection and defense of AMERICAN families are clear.
Failure to immunize against contagious disease is a public health risk for us all. If we were immunizing against smallpox, would we really give a hoot about what Bin Ladin or Hussein has in their bioweapon stockpile? No. If we immunized our population against anthrax, would we have given a darn about these terrorist attacks... I doubt it.
Yet, a few scattered people hurl these ridiculous charges and totally unsubstantiated rumors in order to discredit vaccines that have CLEARLY saved thousands of lives already.
You are no conservative. Conservatives defend family. Your position on vaccines clearly shows you are not interested in protecting ANY child, let alone your own.
Uhhhh... OK, if you don't want to think it through to the next logical step, I'll do it for you. It's because they come into contact every day with Hep B positive patients and become infected via their bodily fluids. EMTs are in the same risk category and, from reports in Philly newspapers, run a 3% to 5% infection rate. Would you suggest that we fire 5% of all EMTs, nurses, and doctors? If more at-risk people - including infants - took the vaccine, the infection rate among medical personnel would probably drop.
Hogwash. There's as much of a relationship between Hep B vaccine and food intolerance as there is between black cats and bad luck.
Marie, and all FReepers on this thread with kids, I really would encourage you to speak with your pediatrician for information on food allergies and intolerances. The doctor, despite the paranoid misinformation on this thread, studied medicine for ten years and has dedicated his life to the health and well being of children. He advises you to vaccinate your kids for the same reason he encourages you to use a child safety seat in your car or put childproof locks on your bathroom cabinets - so your kids won't die horribly when it could have been avoided.
The advice you get from whacko anti-vaccination fanatics on the internet is worth every cent you pay for it. Would you risk your baby's life on what "soebody on the internet" told you?
Since there are occasionally adverse reactions, the optimimum vaccination rate is less than 100%. In a free society, the actual vaccination rate would approach the point of zero marginal utility from further vaccination.
People are concerned about the dangers of vaccinating, I'm concerned that vaccinations don't work as well as we're told they do. Honestly, I'm not anti-vaccination, but I do believe that parents are usually the best judge of what is or is not in their child's best interest. I will still get my kids the MMR and the DPP, but I'm not as confident that they really work that well. When I asked the doctors (as I was asking you) WHY it didn't work I was looking for something to make me feel better about the other shots my kids had. Are they REALLY safe from polio? Mumps? All I want is for some scientist to give me a scientific reason why my daughter got measles after all that. How can I stand up and promote something that failed my family when I can't get an answer as to how it failed us?
No conspiracy is necessary.
If you subsidize something, you will get more of it.
And the members of the medical profession are no more immune to orthodoxy than others.
What's absurd and criminal is uneducated paranoids with weird political agendas giving out medical advice.
Every pediatrician I've ever asked has his own kids vaccinated - across the spectrum. You say that they are performing evil and insidious scientific experiments on their own babies for the benefit of the government and the drug conglomerates. I say they are conscienciously caring for their children's health, as do my wife and I.
Could you please tell me what would be the procedure if a parent needed to report a side effect? I have heard many parents complain of side effects to vaccination, even voicing them to physicians in my presence. No formal procedure to provide quality assurance feedback to these pharmaceutical conglomerates has ever been offered to these parents that I know of.
Thank you for your sincere concern. (and I'm not being sarcastic when I say that) The reason I asked was because my son has an unexplainable problem with malabsorbtion syndrome. He developed it at about 10 months and by 14 months he had lost 1/3 of his body weight and had stopped all linear growth. Things have improved, but after a colon biopsy, allergy tests and uncountable blood work he still has problems after 8 years. Right now I'm working on the gluten/lactose intolerance theory and a pure meat/veg/rice diet help a LOT. My daughter didn't receive the HepB, he did. I doubt that that is the problem, but as a mom it's my job to look at all the possibilities.
How, pray tell, can an unvaccinated child be a risk to the vaccinated?
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