Making an Educated Choice on Vaccinations
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 12:40
It’s been a busy summer, and I’ve been away from my blog far too long. I was pondering what to write about to get back into the swing of things when I read a post from Dr. Vartabedian, author of Colic Solved, about a new website called Vaccinate Your Baby.
Vaccinate Your Baby is a product of Every Child By Two, an organization who’s stated mission is:
“To protect all children from vaccine preventable diseases by raising parental awareness of the critical need for timely infant immunizations . . .”
The Vaccinate Your Baby website provides parents with credible internet resources about vaccine safety and current vaccination research. It also provides information about the history of vaccines, and resources like current vaccination schedules. Vaccinate Your Baby has recruited actress Amanda Peet as their spokesperson, and she shares her own story about choosing to vaccinate on the site.
I think any parent who’d like to learn more about vaccination, or who is struggling to make an informed decision about whether to vaccinate their child should check this site out.
Thanks again to Dr. Vartabedian for sharing this resource on his blog!
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Rachel says:
September 11th, 2008 at 2:08 am
Hi,
Nice post! The article has brought so much of necessary information about vaccines. Thanks for sharing your interest.
Lisa says:
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
My oldest daughter (now seven) had a neurological reaction to the MMR at 15 months. She began staring and blinking hard within a day of the injection. It is documented in her medical records and she will not get another, nor will her younger siblings.
The concern I have for the pro-vaccine sites is that they just want to talk about how safe the vaccines are. That has not always been the case. I would like to point out that Japan switched to the acellular DPT years before the US did. Now we the only place the old DPT is given is poverty stricken countries because of the low cost. The US also continued with the Sabin live polio long after the last case of wild polio had been in the US. The only polio in the US was that caused by the vaccine.
My point is that parents need to educate themselves. I am not anti-vaccine. If there was a compelling reason to give my newborn the Hep-B vaccine I would have.
I think that parents do need to be educated on vaccines. It’s important to be aware of adverse reactions (not a little redness, etc.) and take them seriously. It’s truly going to be the next exposure that would put them at risk.
Kristie says:
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Lisa –
I hope your daughter recovered from her reaction to the MMR. You make some very good points here. My youngest has multiple allergies (including eggs), and we’ve spent a long time debating his vaccination schedule, and what vaccines he will and won’t get. It definitely is important to be aware and observant for adverse vaccine reactions.
DTaP isn’t the only example of a vaccine problem in our history. A rotavirus vaccine had to be pulled off the market because of serious intestinal complications, and I’m sure there are other examples as well.
It’s good to see you visiting here.
-Kristie
Joe says:
November 10th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Giovanni is at one year (first holidays outside the NICU!)
…back on track, I am concerned about the combined MMR shot, and with adding others at the same time. Been told it’s ok to combine so many that they were concerned about enough room on his legs. I now make a point to spread out the shots. Mainly I want to see if there is a reaction to a piticular one. He is “up to date” but it does make for extra visits. I have this non-professional theory about not overwelming his immune system. Trying to research if dosage, schedule, sex, age, prematurity, genitics, current state(IE fighting a cold), multiple vaccinations at once, preservative contents, are factors in cases of severe reactions.
Very glad to hear the little one got over it.