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To: savagesusie

>>Why would any sane doctor put known toxins into a healthy baby when they know that all toxins go directly to the brain since they are unable to filter toxins like older children?<<

Because EVERY medicine is a toxin. Every filler to a medication is a toxin. One must weight the good with the bad.

I didn’t get my kids Gardisil or chicken pox. We NEVER get the flu vaccine. It’s a balancing act of good outweighing bad.

Medicine is not a precise science. It’s a guessing game and while I agree with you that we as parents need to make our own call, there are vaccines where the good far outweigh the bad. Polio is one example.


135 posted on 06/25/2012 5:29:29 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
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To: netmilsmom
Because EVERY medicine is a toxin. Every filler to a medication is a toxin. One must weight the good with the bad.

I didn’t get my kids Gardisil or chicken pox. We NEVER get the flu vaccine. It’s a balancing act of good outweighing bad.

Medicine is not a precise science. It’s a guessing game and while I agree with you that we as parents need to make our own call, there are vaccines where the good far outweigh the bad. Polio is one example.

I don’t necessarily agree that “every medicine is a toxin” or that it is merely “guessing game” but you are absolutely correct that the good (of vaccinations) often far outweighs the bad.

While some people think that childhood diseases like the measles and the mumps and chicken pox are completely “harmless” childhood diseases and something that everyone should get as part of growing up, the fact is that many children were left permanently scarred and even died or born with birth defects as the result of those diseases before vaccinations. My mother told me about some of her childhood friends contracting polio, spending the rest of their lives crippled or in “iron lungs” as she was preparing me for my polio shot as a child, explaining to me while the shot might hurt a bit, it would only hurt for a short time, and why it was well worth and important to for me to get it.

My older brother after catching the Mumps, contracted a rare but serious side effect of that disease – meningitis and encephalitis. He very nearly died, was in a coma for a week, received Last Rites of the Catholic Church and the doctors told my parents that even if he recovered, he’d most likely be brain damaged. Fortunately he, after several months in the hospital and intense therapy to learn to speak and walk again, eventually fully recovered. But you can be sure that my parents made sure that I got all my vaccinations. I also have an older cousin who nearly died from the measles when her fever spiked dangerously high and she went into convulsions and seizures. And chicken pox can come back as shingles, a very painful and debilitating condition.

My current employer offers free flu vaccines on a voluntary basis and I’ve had no problem with them and am glad to get them. IMO I’m relatively young and healthy and if I get the flu, at worse miss I’ll a few days of work, be miserable for a few days and recover fully, but if contract the flu and come into contact with a vulnerable person, a very young or elderly person or a person with a compromised immune system and transmit the flu to them, that can be fatal to them

As far as Gardisil, my niece was very concerned about her teenage daughter getting that vaccine but decided that it was worth the risk. He daughter is a “good” girl and even now at 19 and in college, is still a virgin and not at all interested in premarital sex, wanting to save herself for the right guy and for marriage. She understood and still understands that Gardisil only protects her from the HPV virus and does not protect her from other sexually transmitted diseases. But what it does protect her from is that the chance that the “good guy” she eventually marries may not have always been so “good”. If he even once had sex with a woman carrying the HPV virus, he could transmit that to her and she could contract HPV and many, many years later get cervical cancer as a result. Again the overall good of getting that vaccination compared with the very small risk of a negative reaction made my niece decide, after much research and reflection and a conversation with her Parrish priest, decide to have her daughter vaccinated.

144 posted on 06/25/2012 8:22:04 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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