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An excerpt from Attorney Daily: "Government health officials have conceded that childhood vaccines worsened a rare, underlying ailment that in due course led to autism-like symptoms in a Georgia girl, and that she should be rewarded from a federal vaccine-injury fund."
This story has also been in the newspapers and on the news. While I don't believe that vaccines cause autism in every child, or the reason a child is autistic is because of vaccines, I do believe vaccines can harm children that may have other factors going on with them, like the above case.
I don't think there is a "one size fits all" for every child, when it comes to vaccinations. While some babies and children can tolerate the recommended vaccination schedule by the American Academy of Pediatrics, I think it is becoming very obvious to many parents that this may not be the best schedule for their child.
In our case, I did not see the need for my babies- at birth- to have a Hepatitis B vaccination. Hepatitis B is a blood borne disease. It can only be contracted by coming in contact with an infected person's blood, or by sexual contact. Since Ryan and Cole would be at home with me full-time, the risk was extremely low, that our newborns would be coming in contact with a Hep. B infected person's blood. Hepatitis B can live and survive on dried blood for about a week. As Ryan got older, the probability increased that he could come in contact with dried blood- still not likely, but more probable than when he was a newborn. At this point we decided to have him vaccinated for Hepatitis B. We will do the same with Cole when he gets older. Both our boys are on a delayed immunization schedule.
I firmly believe that all the vaccines that are recommended for such small babies and children, could harm them. It may not show up as autism, but it could magnify itself as a behavior problem or even allergies. I read an article not too long ago, which said there was some research being conducted which was trying to see if there was a link between allergies and vaccines. The thought was when a newborn and children under the age of 2 or so, are subjected to so many vaccinations, many mixed together, (MMR for example), it overwhelms the child's underdeveloped immune system. Since the child's system is so busy fighting and making antibodies to these vaccines, something has to give, and it can't fight off the common triggers for allergies.
Whether this link will be shown or not, it does make sense to me in the fact that how can we expect a baby's immune system which isn't developed, to be able to fight off all the vaccines and allergen triggers they are exposed to?
I also find it disturbing that so many of the vaccines are mixed together. I suppose this is done so the baby only has to have one shot, but given that there is so much that is still unknown about what happens when vaccines are mixed together, there should at least be the option for parents to have their children receive only one vaccine at a time. I would rather have my baby get another shot, than be increasing his chances of developing autism.
I learned first hand that in this day and age, that isn't even an option, we were holding out immunizing Ryan for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). A lot of the research I had done had stated numerous children have had problems right after receiving this vaccine. Some within 24 hours of having it, started displaying autistic symptoms. Numerous more suffered bad reactions and had several days of high fevers, vomiting, and other problems.
After doing more research on the measles and mumps rates in my area, I learned there was only one case of measles in my area within the last two years, and two cases of mumps. The measles case was in a child that had been adopted from a foreign country. Rubella (German measles) are only contracted by females. It just seemed ridiculous that we could be possibly jeopardizing our son's health with serious consequences for diseases that
