Should i stop vaccinating?????

Question

i have a 5 month old baby up to this point she has had all her mandatory vaccinations, i have read devastating news about the link of autism and these vaccines. she is due for another vaccine at 6 months and i am thinking about not going through with it. the more and more research i do the more i want to prevent autism in my child.

Answer 1

If you have researched, then you would know that only the MMR shot was ever thought to be connected to autism.So, all the other 2,4,6,12 month shots are not linked to that rumor. I asked my daughters doctor, and she strongely encourages getting the MMR shot. Your relying on everyone vaccinating their children so that your daughter won't get sick.
Not that your worries aren't warranted. I, too, think about autism. However, these vaccines have been tested up and down, and if there were ANY link, then they would stop administering them!
I plan on giving my daughter the MMR shot, but not a 12 months. She is not in daycare, or exposed to any children on a regular basis. I am delaying her MMR shot until closer to 2, only because she gets at least 2 other shots at a year, and I think she would feel better if they were seperated out a little more.
My doctor said that there was an outbreak of measles in Ohio last year. So, these diseases still exist. And are becoming more popular because parents aren't vaccinating.
Also, I can't believe someone would say that Measles and mumps aren't dangerous. Obviously she has never met someone that suffered with one of them. It can cause muscle and brain damage among other things.
Sorry for my rant, but this is a touchy subject for me. I have researched and researched, and vaccines are the right way to go.

P.S. Since you have a daughter, you should know that boys are 3-4 times MORE likely to get autism. Which just proves that shots are not linked.

Answer 2

The like between Autism and vaccines are not proven, however I still decided to go with the Autism vaccination schedule. Those advocates saying that Autism is linked to the vaccines do not say to stop getting vaccinated all together, it just says to delay the vaccinations and to split them up a little. Instead of getting shots at 2, 4, and 6 months for example, your child would get the shots at 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 months instead. I would keep vaccinating you daughter.

Answer 3

Always remember that what you read on the internet may be completely out of date or not based on good information.

Japan discontinued the MMR vaccine for 10 years (yes, years). Autism rates continued to climb at the same rate. They returned to giving the MMR and there was no accompanying jump in autism rates. Since then, experts viewed home movies of many children and found that there were clear signs of autism in infants as young as one month. Current research is examining prenatal causes of autism.

My cousin's ex-GF has 3 children with autism (all different fathers). Two had no vaccines at all prior to being diagnosed with autism. My brother never had the MMR (didn't exist then), although he had the measles shots at 1.5 years old (the standard then), but he has Aspergers, which is a form of Autism.

I personally would do an adjusted vaccine schedule, but I have personal reasons for that.

Answer 4

I would have to say No do not stop vaccinating. The percentage of autism in children that are vaccinated is extremely low.
Your child is still gonna need her MMR @ 12 months then again @ 4yrs and I highly recommend that one. And if you miss the 6 month shots,it's as if you never vaccinated her at all because in a few years she will need them all over again especially when she becomes school age. Plus if your child decides to become a health care provider she's going to need all of the vaccinations that mommy didn't give her. So I know as a mom your concerns are normal but her being COMPLETELY vaccinated is the right thing.

Answer 5

The preservative Thimerosal in vaccines is what has been thought to cause autism, although it has not been proven. This preservative is no longer used in most vaccines. The diseases that vaccinations prevent are much worse (in my opinion) than the tiny chance of your child becoming autistic. In fact, there is no agreement on what causes autism.

No, I don't think you should stop vaccinating. If everyone in the world did this, we could have recurrences of diseases that have been eradicated (such as smallpox). However, this is a decision you should discuss with your pediatrician. Only you can decide what is best for your child.

Answer 6

The link between autism and vaccines has not been established. One respected medical journal, the Lancet, retracted the article it published on the basis that an author had a significant conflict of interest in its publication. Most of the other authors of that paper also retracted their conclusions. This retraction has been widely publicised, yet the original erroneous contention persists.

Mercury has been removed from almost all vaccines.

I always get some "thumbs down" when I support vaccines, but I am old enough to have experienced the devastation caused by several of the diseases these vaccines were designed to protect. I have seen children die in the USA from polio, whooping cough, hepatitis B and measles. In Haiti I saw deaths from tetanus.

Your concern is natural, but I think you should get advice from people in the medical field. Pardon my bias.

Answer 7

I understand that autism is scary, but wouldn't you love and care for your child anyway? Please do not base your decision on autism. Look also see the benefits of vaccinations. Pertussis is awful for babies and could and does kill them! We have these vaccinations to protect our babies from these potentially harmful diseases. Remember polio and the iron lung? Awful! So please research more, look at anything and everything you can find. Research the diseases these vaccinations protect against. Ask yourself if you would want your child to have these diseases. I'm not saying you should or you shouldn't get them, because I would support you either way if I knew you. Just spend time researching both the vaccinations and ingredients and adverse reactions to those and the viruses the vaccinations protect against. Make an informed decision based on those.

Answer 8

I'd not put too much into the "autism". Sure it is a fear. It could happen. It could happen for other reasons. Did you happen to look at the percentage of how many kids come up with autism from these vaccines? I'm sure 99.9% of kids that get vacinnated are healthy. (Mine are). You might also want to look into what would happen if you don't get the vaccinations. Can your child get enrolled into Kindergarden? My children had to be up to date on their vaccinations to get into kindergarden.
Just some things to think about.

Answer 9

The vaccine-autism link is only one of the smaller reasons I have chosen not to vaccinate. To me, there are much more dangerous things about vaccines than the possible link to autism.
This is a decision you are going to have to make on your own, research as much as you can and make an informed decision. Good places to start are http://www.909shot.com and "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Childhood Vaccinations" by Stephanie Cave. The Vaccinations section of http://www.mothering.com/discussions is also a good place to find information. Don't let anyone try to scare you into vaccinating if you are not comfortable, it is not neglect and it is not against the law. You do not have to have your kids vaccinated to go to public school (depending on where you live), the 909shot link has state-by-state information on exemptions.

As for myself, I do not vaccinate my kids. Here are a few reasons why:

A person would not normally contract 5 diseases at one time naturally, yet at 2, 4 and 6 mth. visits a baby is injected with five vaccines.

There is no proof that vaccines are responsible for the decline in certain diseases - improved sanitation, medical care and less crowding may also have contributed to the decline in certain diseases. Most diseases decreased by over 95% BEFORE the introduction of vaccines.

By vaccinating children, many cases of certain diseases (ex. measles, chicken pox) have now shifted to the adult population where the disease is often more serious and debilitating.

Vaccines have not been tested for any possible carcinogenic (cancer causing), teratogenic (gene altering) effects or their effects on the reproductive system (it says this right in the product inserts from the manufacturers).

Vaccines are not 100% effective so the child can still get the disease even if they are vaccinated and a child can actually get a disease sometimes from the vaccine if it is a live vaccine.

After researching many of the diseases(like measles, mumps and polio), I found they are not as scary as the media hyped them to be, especially for a healthy immune system. Example: Polio is 90% asymptomatic.

The same amount of vaccine that is given to a 4 yr. old is given to an 18 mth. old and a 2 mth. old, etc.

I beleive the chance of dying or getting a serious side effect from the actual disease is much less than the chance of dying or getting an adverse reaction from the vaccine. The dieseases are not dangerous or deadly in most people.

I believe that injecting my children with things such as formaldehyde, mercury (trace amounts), aluminium, paint thinner, coolant, anti-freeze, detergent phenols, MSG, plus dead animal tissue, aborted fetus tissue, mutated human and animal viruses, bacteria, antibiotics and animal, bacterial and viral DNA, is not particularly a good idea.

Answer 10

NO dont stop! all the documents out there are hypothesis NOT true facts theres no corralation with vaccibations and autism....no one knows where autism comes from so they have to blame something!