Vaccinations - there is so much more to the debate

I didn't expect to be writing this post but I saw convo on Twitter that took me to this post:
Vaccinations and Why I am still Angry With the Media.

There are things in life that are binary

• 1 and 0
  
  • Sun moon. 
  • Solar lunar
  • Dark light
  • Night day
  • Male female
  • On off
• To vaccinate or not....

But there are things in life like rainbows where things aren't quite so binary, not so two-sided.

The vaccination debate is NOT simply about MMR and/or autism....

To reduce it to that is to support the status quo.

To disrespect people who spend hours, days, weeks, months researching it.

To ignore a great deal of information that is in the public domain.

Most anti vaxers are/were concerned with mercury/thimerosal (thimerosal is a mercury preservative) ... Yes, both of which have been taken care of to some degree, thanks to people speaking out and having concerns.

As far back as 2005, the BBC wrote here that it was being phased out of UK vaccinations.

Without people raising concerns, this would never have happened.

It wasn't just whether it was safe or not. It was the VOLUMES at which it was given, to a child who wasn't of a large enough WEIGHT to process or deal with it, which is why some parents who sit on the fence, do vaccinate, but at an older age, when the baby has the body mass to process the toxins.

Sometimes people address their concerns by giving single vaccines and there were mercury free vaccines available, when asked for/requested.

But then there are other issues at stake such as the effects of the Polio vaccine.

The contra indicators that can mean a vaccine is not safe.... But did the nurse check your child's medical history before they rushed you in and dealt with the next child in the queue?  Given that vaccinations are quite often done on a given day, on a drop-in basis where you haven't made an appointment so they can't possibly have looked into you before you arrived.

Perhaps find out what happens to a baby/child who wasn't in the right health to receive a vaccine.  Find out what happens then.


The fact that to be vaccinated is not necessarily to be immunized. <<< info on the link

To say unvaccinated kids put vaccinated kids at risk is to not trust the cover the vaccine purports to give in the first place!

There are deaths that occur...

I am so happy to see on >> this Mumsnet thread to see that pro and anti CAN debate together without mud slinging.

All too often (just in my personal experience) anti vaxers research their position but pro, swallow the info/leaflet given and go along for appointment, without giving it a second thought other than to wonder whether baby will cry or not.

As on the mumsnet thread I think both sides should research their position.

I am not going to say much more, as I am not a medical professional.  Also, I have already written about this subject on this blog before.

I would ask, so that each side can show each other some tolerance, that you read the contents of this link:
Three reasons why I don't vaccinate It was not written by me.

As you can see, the reasons are far more complicated than to do with the MMR media scare, and to reduce the debate to that, is to miss a whole arena of important information.

Let's at the very least be informed in our decisions, whatever they may be.

I am not writing this blog post to be sensationalist; I am writing it, as seeing those tweets had me awake till 2 a.m. so I could not just ignore it :-(

The information on this link is interesting too and also speaks of  the side effects to the Polio vaccination.

And don't get me started on flu shots.

This, my blog post, is deliberately not exhaustive or conclusive.  I am not going to go into every are of the debate and provide every link to something interesting.  It is a very personal decision and each person/parent should do their own research and make their own CONSCIOUS decision.

And even when people decide not to vaccinate it is not the end of the road.  There are many things then that are needed: extended breastfeeding, homeopathy, nutrtition, etc... and these don't go amiss with all children.

A great deal of immunity is provided from breastfeeding, but 6 weeks although better than nothing, is not enough.


Liska xx