Does my healthy grand daughter 8 weeks old need the vaccines like BCG+OPV , Hepatitis, Measles, MMR etc?

Question

Can some body with through knowledge explain the neccessity of different vaccines given to babies? At what age it is given and how many of them are essential for the health of the babies?

Answer 1

All healthy newborns should receive the age appropriate vaccines on a regular schedule to prevent catching such life threatening disease as whooping cough,measles ,and mumps.These disease still exist in the world and with world travel such as it is exposure could occur to a carrier of any of these diseases on a simple trip to the grocery store.I have 4 children and they have all successfully negotiated the rounds of vaccinations with no problems.The literature on these vaccination side effects may be scary but the good of the vaccine outweighs any minor fever or stress the baby goes through.
Your pediatrician or well baby clinic should have provided you with a vaccination schedule to follow.They even have a vaccination for chicken pocks now that is a god send if you have ever been exposed....my 19 yr old never had it because it didn't exist then and he has several small scars on his face from scratching at pox when he contracted them...luckily my younger two will never have to worry about it because they got the vaccine.Please ...please ...please encourage your daughter or son to have the baby immunized asap....watching your child suffer from a preventable disease would be horrible.

Answer 2

Yes, she needs the vaccines. Children can and do die of teburculosis, measles mumps and rubella. The vaccines are scheduled between the 8th week and the first birthday, but some experts advocate spreading them out further until the 2nd birthday as long as the child is not in daycare or exposed to school age siblings. The other danger is that a baby with the disease, before symptoms show, may infect a woman in early pregnancy and cause her baby to born with a serious defect like blindness as a result of measels or mental retardation as a result of maternal rubella.

Some doctors like to add vaccines against hepetitis B and now HPV in infancy, but since they are primarily sexually transmitted diseases, they can probably be re-scheduled for some time between the ages of 9 and 14.

The controversy around vaccines concerns a preservative called thimerosal, which contains mercury. Basically, there isn't a lot of profit to be made on vaccines, so drug companies try to make huge stocks of it that can last 10 or even 15 years. Thimerosal was implicated in causing autism in children, but the link was never established by clinical research...except the drug companies and the American government held expert meetings on the topic in which no one was allowed to take notes or copies of material.

Thimerosal was banned from vaccines a few years ago, with the rider that existing stocks could be used up first, so if you're in the military or being vaccinated by a global agency like Unicef, where they buy 10 years worth of vaccine at once, your vaccine probably has thimerosal and it's worth paying for your own from the pharmacy that doesn't contain it.

Answer 3

Contrary to popular opinion (on here) thimerosal has not been banned from vaccines. You have to ASK for the mercury free vaccines or they will give them to you.

I wont have my children vaccinated if at all possible. You just dont know what is in there!!

Bottom line, be educated. Find out as much as you can from reliable sources. Good luck.

Answer 4

In past times when there was no vaccines healthy grandchildren like yours died of these diseases and they are not gone from our society so yes she needs the vaccines.

Answer 5

All of the shots are necessary to help your grandchild beat diseases and viruses out there. It helps their immune system I believe. Contact your own dr and advise your concern on the shots for your grand child.....they can refer you to a dr or get you the information you need.

I asked the samething for my first child and the dr said the pro's of getting the shots on a timely manner will always out weigh the cons of getting them.