Every parent geniunely concerned for the health of their daughter should consider this(HPV Vaccine).?

Question

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Sure you can protect your daughter against cervical cancer. The question is, at what cost? At really who's benefit?

Answer 1

A personal choice to be made after becoming informed about possible side effects and honest communication with your child's medical caregiver and your child. Be careful, about taking the word of anyone person know what you are giving your child and what it is supposed to do also know what the possible side effects can be. Informed consent to treatment is the only intelligent choice in this or other medical decisions.

Answer 2

With any medication/vaccine there is a risk of side effects. Even with the vaccine it doesnt protect against all types of cervical cancer. The best prevention is abstinence in both boys and girls.

You ask what cost, think of it this way if you tell a child they have to get a shot for an STD that is telling them I know you are going to have sex. This encourages sex. If your daughter comes to you and askes about sex then discuss it with her. It should be something a child has a say about. Not forced.

Who benefits if she has no side effects from the shot then she is protected from some types of cervical cancer which is great. Mainly the drug company benefits from the cost of the shot.

I think that parents really need to think about it and maybe deciede with their children vs forcing it.

I guess my feeling is this... Its a new immunizaiton every time one comes out and they push for everyone to get the shot then later down the line some side effect pops up that causes life long complications. Who is to say the shot wont cause infertility earlier in life or something worse. Or will make more resistant strains of HPV that will cause cancer no matter what.

This is one discussion that will not end for a long time with everyone having a different view. I personally will not get the shot for myself due to side effects of medications that were deemed safe by FDA and then later pulled off the market due to horrible side effects, by the time that it has been out for a few years I will not be between their guidelines for age. That raises a question in it self Why arent women older than 26 able to get the shot? What is their reason for not allowing it?

Answer 3

I would say that the benefit is to my daughter's life. This is the first vaccine that is able to prevent a type of cancer & I don't feel that having her vaccinated will lead to earlier sexual activity any more than education about her body & taking care of it. Choices about when to become sexually active are not made from a perspective of 'it's OK, since it won't kill me', but are made from the day-to-day values that we model and teach our children. And the while I understand that the upfront cost of the vaccine is large, it's much less than the treatment of genital warts or cervical cancer, not to mention the value on her having a long and healthy life and not being concerned that she could die before her own children have a chance to grow up with her guidance and love.

Answer 4

My father gave my mother cervical cancer (HPV) when she was 21 (after they married). My father was basically a whore prior to marriage. Who paid for his screwing around? SHE DID. You can preach/teach to your daughters all you want about abstinence but it's not going to protect them if they decide to have sex nor will it protect them from STD's in a supposedly "monogomous" realtionship. Vaccinate your daughters. The only reason you wouldn't is to exert control over women's sexuality. I can GUARANTEE you that if the option was available to sons, they'd run out of the vaccination for people trying to get their precious boys inocculated. "control women" is what you're saying by not vaccinating your daughters and you should be ashamed. Ladies, we think we've come along way in this world and then you read some of the stuff written here and know that it's all a facade. We all know that women don't diserve to control thier own lives and have control of their own sexuality, right? That certainly seems to be the message here.....

Answer 5

Yes the shot is wonderful...but what about educating our daughters as well as sons that HPV can NOT be prevented with condom use. That HPV is NOT spread by bodily fluids but by skin to skin contact. There doesn't even have to be penetration in order to spread HPV, a young woman can contract HPV and never had sex BEFORE she gets vaccinated so what good will the shot do then? Something needs to be done to prove to these CHILDREN than they are not invincible.

Answer 6

Amanda you hear wrong. HPV is not herpies. but gential warts is. I am all for giving our children this vaccine and feel the benifits are worth the 3 shots 30 days apart and if you'd educate yourself beyond what some unfounded "independant" research give you then you'd see what I am saying. It does not treat "symptoms" it decreases/eliminates your chances of getting cervical cancer caused by HPV. I have just as millions of other women have tested positive for HPV doesnt make me a dirty person as some would think. Most women will have HPV at some point in their life if at any point they become sexually active. And most cases of HPV clear up on its own which can take up to a yr which means your back at the gyno's office every 3 months for paps to make sure your HPV has not turned into cancer. HPV has NO symptoms and just because your pap comes back normal this week doesnt mean it will come back normal a week later. I went 4 times even developed Atypical cell formation before my cleared I asked for the shot and was told its not approved for women my age only girls and women age 9-26 but later this yr the FDA is hoping to approve it for all women and then I will take the shot. The shot without insurance is expensive at close to 1000- but I think if it can possibly save your life go for it. The same ppl against this vaccine ***** and moan about childhood immunizations but where would we be as a nation if there were no childhood immunizations? Odds are polio, scarlet fever, and so forth would be running ramped and taking the lives of so many.

And to Lilith your father did not give your mother cervical cancer he gave her HPV it developed into cervical cancer. You can not GIVE someone cancer. Being a "whore" also doesnt give you cervical cancer. You can be with a man who has only been with one other person and he can pass it on to you again..Educate yourselves

Answer 7

While HPV is a chief risk factor in the development of cervical cancer, it is sexually transmitted. I do not see a reason to require vaccinating a child of 11 or 12 against a sexually transmitted disease. Maybe the argument against condoms in schools can be similarly used, but it seems to me that if you vaccinate young women against one STD, doesn't it stand to reason that they may become more sexually active or more likely to become sexually active earlier if they believe they are vaccinated against STDs of all types? I know some states are pushing to make the HPV shots required. Perhaps consideration should be given to the initiative at age 16 or so, but I still don't necessarily agree with it.

According to the CDC, 11,820 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2003, and 3,919 women died.

Answer 8

I have a 6 month old daughter and this can help prevent from cervical cancer then I would have her get this shot when she is a lot older, i think a lot of people dont understand HPV and those are the ones that are going against it. Sometimes when you get it it disappears sometimes it can become a hell of a lot worse then you ever thought. You could have sex once get this and turn out ok and or you can have sex and get HPV and have to have a hysterectomy and if you have no kids well you wont have any of your own. Men carry it but it doesnt effect them it only effects us women. I had found out I had HPV along with a friend of mine had it, we both turned out ok and it went away. Now we are both fine, but I look at it as I was lucky. I dont want this thing happening to my little girl. Its not like im saying ok you have this. Its not like im saying ok she can go have sex now because shes gonna be ok. But you know what kids are gonna do what they are gonna do, I am going to do everything i can to protect my daughter and tell her to wait to have sex, but thats all i can do i can try my hardest to get her to wait and I hope she does, but sometimes kids are kids. My little brother is only 17 and having sex, almost got his girlfriend pregnant, I yell at him all the time but does he listen no he does want he wants. just like people against putting their kids on birth control its not condoning sex..and people need to understand what HPV is and what it can do to you, I thank god it went away for me because if it didnt I wouldnt have my little girl right now.

Answer 9

I plan on making both of my girls get these shots when they are older. I live in Texas, and just recently the governor was scorned for trying to make it a law that all girls be vaccinated by a certain age. I don't think we are telling our girls they can have sex, it protecting them. I wasn't sexually active till I was 20 and still got HPV from my longtime boyfriend and ended up with cancerous cells on my cervix from this. So why not help out our girls and get them vaccinated.

Answer 10

I don't trust the FDA to have fully tested and verified this vaccine yet. It is toooooo new. Take a look at all the stuff they allow out in the medical field as drugs to help and cure and watch how many of them have now gotten law suits layed against them. The best cure in prevention is how we live and eat.