That's why all parents should fully vaccinate their children



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The MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine, or the MMRV vaccine (including chicken pox, better known as chicken pox), is one of the most important vaccinations that a young child has. can receive. The lack of adequate immunization rates in the general population can lead to completely preventable epidemics.

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It's one of the most important decisions of your life: should I vaccinate my child and do it according to the schedule recommended by the CDC? There is a lot of information from groups that encourage and discourage vaccination. Although some of the proposed items are downright wrong, & nbsp; it's really a complex problem.

On the one hand, vaccines really are a wonderful defense against a wide variety of infectious diseases. Disorders that would make sick, hurt, blind, paralyze or even kill millions of children every year in the world could be – and in some cases, have been effectively eradicated from the human. On the other hand, no vaccine can be safe or 100% effective, and many parents have nightmarish stories about what happened to their child almost immediately after the vaccine administration. That's what every parent should know.

Our fears about the safety or dangers of vaccines need to be balanced not only with information about the dangers of the disease, but also with the possibility of spreading the disease to people who can not survive the symptoms.

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The world is a dangerous place and it makes sense to want to do everything in your power to protect the people you care about from the damage that could be done to them. Similarly, we can not just make the decisions that are in our own interest, otherwise our society will collapse. It can not only be about you. When it comes to vaccinating your children, these two opposite fears meet and it can be hard to know what is the right thing to do.

Some people can not be vaccinated for medical reasons: they may be allergic to the ingredients of the vaccine; they may have a compromised immune system; they may be too young or sick. We know that we can not leave this population behind us either. In the fight against preventable diseases, we must do our best to protect everyone.

Sgt. Sarah Ellis of the US Air Force, an officer in charge of vaccination against allergies, measures the swelling of a reaction to Wildmer Santiago's arm. Immunization against allergies gradually increases the body's tolerance to certain organisms, which helps prevent reactions.

Kyle Gese / US Military

Infectious diseases rarely disappear because there is no reliable biological means of extinction of all cells carrying such a disease. But vaccines offer the best opportunity: to reduce the number of cases of this disease to zero in man, then eradicate it effectively.

In the absence of any type of immunity, a contagious and contagious disease will pbad from person to person with a high probability. If the symptoms of the disease threaten life in any way, the spread of this disease will result in considerable loss of life. Even for diseases with a tame reputation – such as measles, whooping cough or chicken pox – they have always resulted in losses ranging from several thousand to several thousand deaths a year. Yes, even chickenpox kills about 100 people a year before the vaccine is released.

The rashes of chickenpox usually start on the face and trunk of the body and spread from there. Chickenpox is caused by chickenpox, which kills an average of 100 Americans a year before the vaccine is introduced.

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But vaccines can change all that. They are the number one tool in the arsenal of humanity in the fight against preventable diseases. If the immunity rate against an illness is greater than 95%, science has shown that it is unlikely that an infected person will transmit this disease to many others. Epidemics can be suppressed or suppressed, but only if 95% or more of the population is immunized.

This is why it is so important that the vaccination rate for each vaccine-preventable disease be as high as possible. At 97% or 99%, those who can not be vaccinated are almost badured of not getting infected; each vaccine protects not only the vaccinated, but also the unvaccinated. But at rates of 91%, 85% or 76% (as was the case in Clark County, WA), epidemics will certainly occur.

This map shows the country breakdown of unsubscribed immunization rates in states that allow non-medical immunization exemptions. Once the refusal rate exceeds about 5%, the risk of an outbreak explodes.

J. K. Olive, P. J. Hotez, A. Damania, M. S. Nolan (2018) PLOS Medicine

The population that suffers the most is usually the one who can not defend themselves. People with weakened immune systems, vaccinated people whose protection is depleted (which occurs at random and can be partially controlled by booster shots) and infants who are too young to be vaccinated are the most vulnerable groups. risk.

Pertussis, a disease about to be eradicated, is infect tens of thousands every year. The most serious injuries include inflammation of the brain (causing permanent damage) and death, especially in infants too young to receive the vaccine. If you have a newborn baby at home and you allow unvaccinated people to approach your baby, you are literally risking your life. Every year, many children under the age of one die from a preventable disease by vaccinating an unvaccinated sibling or sibling.

Dr. Andrew Terranella (EIS, 2010) is treating blood samples during an epi-aid survey on whooping cough in central Ohio in December 2010. Despite widespread vaccination, whooping cough persisted in the vaccinated populations, while the immunity decreased and that the bacterium that causes it, Bordetella pertussis, mutates over time. Low vaccination rates have contributed to the rise of pertussis epidemics over the last decade.

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

But & nbsp; there is a dark truth that we must not ignore. Despite all the benefits of vaccines, they are not 100% effective and their safety can not be proven. Even if we do our best for ourselves and for our society – and make these optimal decisions & nbsp; – there will always be tragedies.

Some people will vaccinate their child and watch something horrible in minutes, hours or days.

  • They may develop a rash at the site of the injection, possibly accompanied by crying, fever, nausea and vomiting.
  • They could start to manifest the symptoms of autism, including & nbsp; reduced eye contact, no demonstrated interest in toys, no response to sounds, voices, or their own name, or even loss of previous skills.
  • Or, most horribly, they can become seriously ill, have convulsions and / or convulsions, or even die.

Unfortunately, young children often suffer from convulsions and high fevers, leading to the risk of death when they occur. The literature offering possible treatments before the arrival of professional medical help dates back more than a century.

When to send to the doctor (1913), F. E. Lippert and A. Holmes

I only have compbadion for parents watching their children live something like this. It must be horrible, maybe as horrible as when my little brother – when he was less than a year old – spontaneously reached a temperature of 106 ° F. He had seizures and his eyes rolled in his head . After being transported to the hospital, we got the good news: & nbsp; he would live and seemed unharmed. We were lucky.

But that did not happen for a few minutes or even days after the vaccination. It happened one day unexpectedly, without any apparent cause. If this had happened shortly after the administration of a vaccine, what would be the consequences of our family? Could you tell us something that might convince us that it has nothing to do with the vaccine?

Probably not.

Every time you vaccinate a person, there is a very small statistical risk of adverse reaction. Although most of the documented reactions are not statistically significant, many parents have vaccinated their children only to see them fall ill or experience a dramatic change in their health, behavior, or personality within hours.

12019 / Pixabay

But that's why we have science. What we can do, scientifically, is examine a hypothesis the best way we know how to do it: study it and try to refute it. We may not be able to examine an individual case and find out whether it was caused by a vaccine or not, but we can look at the general population of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons or the vaccination schedule rather than in case of injury, illness or illness. symptoms appear & nbsp; – and draw the conclusions.

When we do, we certainly do not miss negative effects coinciding with vaccinations. Injection site inflammation, accompanied by fever and vomiting, after vaccination, is relatively common. This is considered one of the main side effects of vaccination.

A Salvadoran nurse vaccinated a baby during a mission of the Northstar Task Force in El Salvador to provide medical care and other humanitarian and civic badistance. The mission included US military personnel working alongside their Brazilian, Canadian, Chilean and Salvadoran counterparts.

Kim Browne / US Military

Many vaccines coincide with the moment when autism manifests itself for the first time. however, the largest study ever done on autism rates in vaccinated versus non-vaccinated individuals& nbsp; (for the MMR vaccine) showed that unvaccinated people were 7% more likely to develop autism than their vaccinated counterparts. This does not mean that not vaccinating causes autism; these results are consistent with the fact that autism rates are not affected by immunizations.

Finally, some children die after being vaccinated. And some children die before receiving them, or independently of receiving them. the most robust badysis ever done& nbsp; These populations have shown that there are some legitimate risks badociated with vaccines. In particular,

Serious adverse reactions are rare and vaccine deaths are very rare. Health care providers may take specific steps to help prevent adverse effects, including appropriate screening for contraindications and precautions, as well as a 15-minute wait period after vaccination to to prevent fall injuries caused by syncope.

The HPV vaccine is very safe and most people have no problems or side effects. Studies have shown that the vaccine results in a 64% decline in HPV rates among teenagers aged 14 to 19 and 34% in women aged 20 to 24 years.

Kristin High / US Military

But at the same time, if you are a parent whose child has been vaccinated and has become seriously ill, even though the science does not allow to say that the disease was related to the vaccine, I send you my deepest condolences. I would also like you to consider the following.

When I was a teenager, I met a young man who became a character similar to a big brother in my life for a while. If you spent time with him, you started noticing the scars on his arms and head: they were injuries requiring more than 200 stitches a few years ago. He was involved in a car accident and was not wearing his seatbelt. He crossed the windshield, raising his arms to protect his face. His face and arms were severely lacerated, necessitating stitches and leaving scars. He considers himself lucky to be alive.

A very serious car accident, especially at high speed, can cause an unrestrained person to enter the vehicle through the windshield. Even though, in about 199 out of 200 cases, the accident victim will get better results if she wears a seatbelt, a small fraction of the population will survive an accident because she would not have worn it when she would wear it. .

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Here's the thing: he was really lucky. The car accident was so serious that he compressed the dashboard into the seat where he had been sitting before. If he had worn his seatbelt, his legs would have been crushed or severed and he would almost certainly be dead. Even though, in the vast majority of cases, the seatbelt will save lives, it was the rarest of the 0.5% (or more) of those who performed better by not wearing a seatbelt.

After that, we had a lot of discussions about wearing the seatbelt because he would never do it again, even though he knew all the statistics. I have a lot of sympathy for him and I realized that I did not have much ground on which to hold me to convince him that he had to wear a seatbelt. I have the same sympathy for parents whose children – or even who seem to be – & nbsp; – have an adverse reaction to a vaccine.

Even if there is a small percentage of people who would survive a fatal accident if they did not wear a seatbelt, a greater majority of lives are saved from the people who wear them. We should all wish to apply the same logic to our vaccination decisions, especially when we also consider the health and safety of people we might infect.

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My friend did not initiate any anti-seatbelt movement. He did not think there should be a withdrawal of seatbelt requirements, even for people like him who would have died if they had carried him into an almost fatal accident. (Although I personally thought it was unethical that the law required him to wear one after his experience.) Instead, he encouraged us and everyone else to wear it. our seatbelt because he recognized that 199 times out of 200 would help us live.

And that's what we should want, not just for ourselves and our own children, but for all members of society. We want to help them live. We want them to be free of disease and injury. And if we can prevent them from contracting infectious diseases, we want to do it. But it takes us all.

Anyone who can be vaccinated should be vaccinated: fully and according to the schedule recommended by the CDC. If you have any doubts about vaccines, be sure to receive appropriate screening for contraindications beforehand. Know the risks. And then, if you have a choice, to do the right thing. You will not only protect your own child, but all the other peoples of the world, to the extent of the possibilities of modern science.

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The MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine, or the MMRV vaccine (including chicken pox, better known as chicken pox), is one of the most important vaccinations that a young child has. can receive. The lack of adequate immunization rates in the general population can lead to completely preventable epidemics.

Getty

It's one of the most important decisions of your life: should I vaccinate my child and do it according to the schedule recommended by the CDC? There is a lot of information from groups that encourage and discourage vaccination. Although some of the things suggested are downright wrong, this is a complex problem.

On the one hand, vaccines really are a wonderful defense against a wide variety of infectious diseases. Disorders that would make sick, hurt, blind, paralyze or even kill millions of children every year in the world could be – and in some cases, have been effectively eradicated from the human. On the other hand, no vaccine can be safe or 100% effective, and many parents have nightmarish stories about what happened to their child almost immediately after the vaccine administration. That's what every parent should know.

Our fears about the safety or dangers of vaccines need to be balanced not only with information about the dangers of the disease, but also with the possibility of spreading the disease to people who can not survive the symptoms.

DAVE HAYGARTH / FLICKR

The world is a dangerous place and it makes sense to want to do everything in your power to protect the people you care about from the damage that could be done to them. Similarly, we can not just make the decisions that are in our own interest, otherwise our society will collapse. It can not only be about you. When it comes to vaccinating your children, these two opposite fears meet and it can be hard to know what is the right thing to do.

Some people can not be vaccinated for medical reasons: they may be allergic to the ingredients of the vaccine; they may have a compromised immune system; they may be too young or sick. We know that we can not leave this population behind us either. In the fight against preventable diseases, we must do our best to protect everyone.

Sgt. Sarah Ellis of the US Air Force, an officer in charge of vaccination against allergies, measures the swelling of a reaction to Wildmer Santiago's arm. Immunization against allergies gradually increases the body's tolerance to certain organisms, which helps prevent reactions.

Kyle Gese / US Military

Infectious diseases rarely disappear because there is no reliable biological means of extinction of all cells carrying such a disease. But vaccines offer the best opportunity: to reduce the number of cases of this disease to zero in man, then eradicate it effectively.

In the absence of any type of immunity, a contagious and contagious disease will pbad from person to person with a high probability. If the symptoms of the disease threaten life in any way, the spread of this disease will result in considerable loss of life. Even for diseases with a tame reputation – such as measles, whooping cough or chickenpox – they have always resulted in losses ranging from tens to thousands of deaths per year. Yes, even chickenpox killed about 100 people a year before the vaccine was released.

The rashes of chickenpox usually start on the face and trunk of the body and spread from there. Chickenpox is caused by chickenpox, which kills an average of 100 Americans a year before the vaccine is introduced.

Getty

But vaccines can change all that. They are the number one tool in the arsenal of humanity in the fight against preventable diseases. If the immunity rate against an illness is greater than 95%, science has shown that it is unlikely that an infected person will transmit this disease to many others. Epidemics can be suppressed or suppressed, but only if 95% or more of the population is immunized.

This is why it is so important that the vaccination rate for each vaccine-preventable disease be as high as possible. At 97% or 99%, those who can not be vaccinated are almost badured of not getting infected; each vaccine protects not only the vaccinated, but also the unvaccinated. But at rates of 91%, 85% or 76% (as was the case in Clark County, WA), outbreaks will certainly occur.

This map shows the country breakdown of unsubscribed immunization rates in states that allow non-medical immunization exemptions. Once the refusal rate exceeds about 5%, the risk of an outbreak explodes.

J. K. Olive, P. J. Hotez, A. Damania, M. S. Nolan (2018) PLOS Medicine

The population that suffers the most is usually the one who can not defend themselves. People with weakened immune systems, vaccinated people whose protection is depleted (which occurs at random and can be partially controlled by booster shots) and infants who are too young to be vaccinated are the most vulnerable groups. risk.

Pertussis, a disease about to be eradicated, infects tens of thousands every year. The most serious injuries include inflammation of the brain (causing permanent damage) and death, especially in infants too young to receive the vaccine. If you have a newborn baby at home and you allow unvaccinated people to approach your baby, you are literally risking your life. Every year, many children under the age of one die from a preventable disease by vaccinating an unvaccinated sibling or sibling.

Dr. Andrew Terranella (EIS, 2010) is treating blood samples during an epi-aid survey on whooping cough in central Ohio in December 2010. Despite widespread vaccination, whooping cough persisted in the vaccinated populations, while the immunity decreased and that the bacterium that causes it, Bordetella pertussis, mutates over time. Low vaccination rates have contributed to the rise of pertussis epidemics over the last decade.

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

But there is a dark truth that we must not ignore. Despite all the benefits of vaccines, they are not 100% effective and their safety can not be proven. Even if we do our best for ourselves and for our society – and make these optimal decisions – there will always be tragedies.

Some people will vaccinate their child and watch something horrible in minutes, hours or days.

  • They may develop a rash at the site of the injection, possibly accompanied by crying, fever, nausea and vomiting.
  • They may begin to show symptoms of autism, including decreased eye contact, lack of interest in toys, lack of reaction to sounds, voices, or their own name, or loss of previous skills. .
  • Or, most horribly, they can become seriously ill, have convulsions and / or convulsions, or even die.

Unfortunately, young children often suffer from convulsions and high fevers, leading to the risk of death when they occur. The literature offering possible treatments before the arrival of professional medical help dates back more than a century.

When to send to the doctor (1913), F. E. Lippert and A. Holmes

I only have compbadion for parents watching their children live something like this. It must be horrible, perhaps as horrible as when my little brother – when he was less than a year old – spontaneously reached a temperature of 10 ° C. He had seizures and his eyes rolled in her head. After being transported to the hospital, we had the good news: he would live and look unhurt. We were lucky.

But that did not happen for a few minutes or even days after the vaccination. It happened one day unexpectedly, without any apparent cause. If this had happened shortly after the administration of a vaccine, what would be the consequences of our family? Could you tell us something that might convince us that it has nothing to do with the vaccine?

Probably not.

Every time you vaccinate a person, there is a very small statistical risk of adverse reaction. Although most of the documented reactions are not statistically significant, many parents have vaccinated their children only to see them fall ill or experience a dramatic change in their health, behavior, or personality within hours.

12019 / Pixabay

But that's why we have science. What we can do, scientifically, is examine a hypothesis the best way we know how to do it: study it and try to refute it. We may not be able to look at an individual case and find out if it was caused by a vaccine or not, but we can look at the general population of vaccinated and unvaccinated people – or the vaccination schedule in relation to when injuries, illnesses or symptoms occur – and draw conclusions.

When we do, we certainly do not miss negative effects coinciding with vaccinations. Injection site inflammation, accompanied by fever and vomiting, after vaccination, is relatively common. This is considered one of the main side effects of vaccination.

A Salvadoran nurse vaccinated a baby during a mission of the Northstar Task Force in El Salvador to provide medical care and other humanitarian and civic badistance. The mission included US military personnel working alongside their Brazilian, Canadian, Chilean and Salvadoran counterparts.

Kim Browne / US Military

Many vaccines coincide with the moment when autism manifests itself for the first time. However, the largest study ever done on autism rates in vaccinated versus non-vaccinated individuals (regarding the MMR vaccine) showed that unvaccinated individuals were 7% more likely to develop the disease. Autism than their vaccinated counterparts. This does not mean that not vaccinating causes autism; these results are consistent with the fact that autism rates are unaffected by vaccinations.

Finally, some children die after being vaccinated. And some children die before receiving them, or independently of receiving them. The most robust badysis ever conducted on these populations has shown that there are some legitimate risks badociated with vaccines. In particular,

Serious adverse reactions are rare and vaccine deaths are very rare. Health care providers may take specific steps to help prevent adverse effects, including appropriate screening for contraindications and precautions, as well as a 15-minute wait period after vaccination to to prevent fall injuries caused by syncope.

The HPV vaccine is very safe and most people have no problems or side effects. Studies have shown that the vaccine results in a 64% decline in HPV rates among teenagers aged 14 to 19 and 34% in women aged 20 to 24 years.

Kristin High / US Military

But at the same time, if you are a parent whose child has been vaccinated and has become seriously ill, even though the science does not allow to say that the disease was related to the vaccine, I send you my deepest condolences. I would also like you to consider the following.

When I was a teenager, I met a young man who became a character similar to a big brother in my life for a while. Si vous avez pbadé du temps avec lui, vous avez commencé à remarquer les cicatrices sur ses bras et sa tête: elles correspondaient à des blessures nécessitant plus de 200 points de suture quelques années auparavant. Il était impliqué dans un accident de voiture et ne portait pas sa ceinture de sécurité. Il traversa le pare-brise, levant les bras pour protéger son visage. Son visage et ses bras ont été gravement lacérés, ce qui a nécessité les points de suture et laissé les cicatrices. Il s&#39;estimait chanceux d&#39;être en vie.

Un très grave accident de voiture, en particulier à grande vitesse, peut faire pénétrer une personne non retenue dans le véhicule à travers le pare-brise. Même si, dans environ 199 cas sur 200, la victime de l&#39;accident obtiendra de meilleurs résultats si elle porte une ceinture de sécurité, une petite fraction de la population survivra à un accident car elle ne l&#39;aurait pas porté quand elle le porterait. .

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Voici la chose: il a vraiment eu de la chance. L’accident de voiture était si grave qu’il a comprimé le tableau de bord sur le siège où il était badis auparavant. S&#39;il avait porté sa ceinture de sécurité, ses jambes auraient été écrasées ou sectionnées et il serait presque certainement mort. Même si, dans la très grande majorité des cas, la ceinture de sécurité sauvera des vies, il était le rare des 0,5% (ou plus) des personnes qui obtenaient de meilleurs résultats en ne portant pas sa ceinture de sécurité.

Après cela, nous avons eu beaucoup de discussions sur le port de la ceinture de sécurité, car il ne le ferait plus jamais, même s&#39;il connaissait tout des statistiques. J&#39;ai beaucoup de sympathie pour lui et je me suis rendu compte que je n&#39;avais pas beaucoup de terrain sur lequel me tenir pour le convaincre qu&#39;il devait porter une ceinture de sécurité. J&#39;ai la même sympathie pour les parents dont les enfants – ou semblent avoir l&#39;air – ont une réaction indésirable à un vaccin.

Même s&#39;il existe un faible pourcentage de personnes qui survivraient à un accident mortel si elles ne portaient pas la ceinture de sécurité, une plus grande majorité des vies sont sauvées des personnes qui les portent. Nous devrions tous souhaiter appliquer cette même logique à nos décisions en matière de vaccination, en particulier lorsque nous considérons également la santé et la sécurité des personnes que nous pourrions infecter.

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Mon ami n&#39;a pas lancé de mouvement anti-ceinture de sécurité. Il ne pensait pas qu&#39;il devrait y avoir un retrait des exigences en matière de ceinture de sécurité, même pour les personnes comme lui qui seraient décédées si elles l&#39;avaient portée dans un accident presque fatal. (Même si j’ai personnellement pensé qu’il était contraire à l’éthique que la loi l’oblige à en porter une après son expérience.) Au lieu de cela, il nous a encouragés, ainsi que tous les autres, à porter notre ceinture de sécurité, car il a reconnu nous aiderait à vivre.

Et c&#39;est ce que nous devrions vouloir, pas seulement pour nous-mêmes et nos propres enfants, mais pour tous les membres de la société. Nous voulons les aider à vivre. Nous voulons qu&#39;ils soient sans maladie ni blessure. Et si nous pouvons les empêcher de contracter des maladies infectieuses, nous voulons le faire. Mais cela nous prend tous.

Tous ceux qui peuvent se faire vacciner doivent le faire: intégralement et selon le calendrier recommandé par les CDC. Si vous avez des hésitations à propos des vaccins, badurez-vous d’avoir reçu un dépistage adéquat des contre-indications au préalable. Connaître les risques. Et puis, si vous avez le choix, choisissez le bon. Vous ne protégerez pas seulement votre propre enfant, mais tous les autres peuples du monde, dans la mesure des possibilités de la science moderne.

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