Comments on: Decisions, Decisions

By: Resha

Resha — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:20:03 +0000

Being a parents is not an easy task, so many things to consider especially to the health and wealth of the family. For this generation nowadays, we are at risk to contaminate diseases like transmitted diseases. Having a vaccine is much more better in order to be sure of the health of the family. So I guess this is really a good decision.
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By: celeste

celeste — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:19:41 +0000

You are obviously not the parent to an autistic child. I am. I do believe the numbers are rising. Is some of rise due to better testing? Most likely. BUT, the numbers are now 1 in 110. I recently read that in the 80s it was more like 1 in 10,000. That cannot be attributed to better testing alone. I live with autism everyday and let me assure you, it is frightening. Thankfully my son does not have some of the more severe systems, but we constantly face challenges; challenges that you cannot begin to imagine unless you have walked this road too. I pray that they find a cause and a cure. I love my son and he brings much joy to my life, but if I could make his life easier for him, I would do it in a heartbeat. And by the way, we have 3 other typically developing children (although one is only 16 months, he doesn’t show any signs) and have no other family members on the spectrum. None. I do not believe it is entirely genetic – there must be some type of environmental factor as well and I just wish we could find what it/they are before even more children are affected. And my son did have all his vaccines, although I don’t necessarily feel like this is what triggered his autism.

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:39:40 +0000

Wow I see some really crazy remarks here… There are many other reasons to NOT vaccinate other than the supposed autism link. First of all I dont trust the government to tell me what is best for me or my kids and I used to work for the government and my husband currently works for them. If most people actually knew what they put into those vaccines you would be sick to your stomach. I am a selective delayed vaxer and I have five kids. First of all you can still get rotovirus after you get the vax…other vaxes you can lose immunity after the fact that you’ve had them and boosters. We dont do the chicken pox at all, of course some people get it really bad but I survived it and chances are you did too most people do. polio has been irradicated from the us completely so unless you are going out of the country, why??? Children who arent vaccinated arent at risk from non vaxers because if the vaccine is working like they tell you it does, why are you so worried? There is no answer to all of this. I hope that most people dont blindly just follow what the government tells you to do. Just like they pumped me full of shots I had no idea what they even were when I worked for them and I wasnt allowed to question it, scary! Do you’re homework and then decide dont just assume they all have your best at heart!

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:47:08 +0000

I am very pro vaccine. I have a 2 1/2 year old boy. my concern is not with the vaccines but with every child being put on the same time line for all shots. My son was full term but was only 6 1/2 lbs when born. he has never been out of the 10th percentile for weight. So why is ever child no matter weather they were born early big small late put into the same shot schedule? Should vaccines not be given based on the child and not the chart?

By: rachel

rachel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:43:25 +0000

i would much rather my son have had the chicken pox than a lifetime of pain in his hip…he has been hospitalized three times because he can not move his leg…..he is only ten dude…ten. chicken pox would have been done and over with in a few weeks….now a lifetime of arthritis….lifetime.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:19:32 +0000

maybe the children are the scientific link?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:21:46 +0000

I’m aware of that. Since my child attends daycare, he is required to have certain immunzations, which we did. We just staggered them, and he stayed with my Mom until the cycle was finished. Enough said.
.-= Kelly´s last blog ..People Looked Like Robots and Jamie Foxx Did The Running Man: Grammy’s 2010 =-.

By: wendy thomas

wendy thomas — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:18:13 +0000

Gardasil could virtually erase both HPV and cervical cancer from existence. It could be as revolutionary as Salk’s polio vaccine.

Wow! That’s quite a statement. It made me wonder if perhaps you were somehow affiliated with Gardasil. I mean to compare it with Salk’s vaccine, imagine!

Your second reply then went on to say that you had worked (profitted) from the research of gardasil.

You are free to give your daughter the medication you see fit just as I am free to refuse it.
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By: joy

joy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:09:12 +0000

If you don’t what your child exposed to children who are LEGALLY exempt from vaccines, then you should put them in private schools.

There are many reasons to have legal exemptions. We went with a philosophical exemption to delay vax’s until age 2 because my niece nearly died from a DTAP reaction and our pediatrician agreed that being cautious made sense.

Then after DS had a major regression following his MMR and lost his ability to speak we got a medical exemption to any further vaccines.

So, yeah, science may say there’s no link, but please don’t insult me by saying my kid who was speaking in sentances prior to his vaccine and inable to after wasn’t damaged by it. And there are THOUSANDS of other parents out there who have the same video documentation of their kids before / after. Our neurologist says that its “autistic regression syndrome” triggered by a brain injury. and of course, because of the use of the A word, insurance doesn’t pay for the therapy. No mind that the symptoms are similar to a stroke….
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By: Nikki

Nikki — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:49:56 +0000

Excuse me, but I wasn’t even talking about autism. DO THE RESEARCH. You will find there are many, many things that can go wrong after a vaccination, like, hmmm, death, brain damage, just to name a couple. THERE ARE TWO SIDES, obviously you do not know the facts. This post may have initially been about an autism link, but I was specifically talking about adverse reactions from vaccines, sorry if I didn’t clarify.