Why get most vaccines for you and your kids....

Today's Post:  Tuesday, 10-9-2012

Last Sunday, 10-7-2012 the Parade Magazine’s cover article was about vaccines.

They had some very interesting information I’ll pass on later in this post.

But here’s the summary.

1.  If there is a vaccine for it, in most cases, the disease it prevents severely damages or kills all or many of the people who get it. 

If you or someone close to you dies, becomes mentally damaged, or paralyzed, or blind from such a disease, it can be truly horrible.  Each of the diseases we vaccinate children for and most we vaccinate adults for have such effects.  Polio is one of the worst.  But tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough can be as bad.  So can measles and meningitis.

2.  If you get the vaccine or see to it that your kid does and the vaccine works as most of them do, the severe damage and mortal danger are completely avoided!

3.  Because some people and parents got scared off of vaccines, enough more people are no longer immune, today you and your kids are far MORE likely to get the disease if you fail to get vaccinated.

4.  We also now know that for flu vaccines and likely for most vaccines if you are getting enough vitamin D3, 3,000 to 5,000 iu a day at least of vitamin D3 as a supplement -- since few get much sun exposure, you get a great benefit.  The vaccines you get while doing so are MUCH more likely to work and protect you later!

A.  So, since it’s flu shot season, we think you’ll be glad you did and may be horribly sorry if you don’t get the flu vaccine this fall and keep taking 3,000 to 5,000 iu a day at least of vitamin D3 as a supplement.  Do yourself and your family a favor and get the flu shot!

At best flu makes you feel like hell -- and horrible if you go to work or miss work or be less effective at work for several days either way.

Why on earth go there?!  You can opt out!  Take the vitamin D3 and get your flu shot.

At worst, flu can kill you directly or with pneumonia you get from your immune system being so trashed.

B.  So, since you only need to do it once every 10 years, also get the pneumonia vaccine.  I had pneumonia once. When the cough made me feel as if a swordsman was running me through, I realized I’d better see a doctor!  The fact I couldn’t stop coughing at night was no fun either.

So, I’ve made sure to get the pneumonia vaccine.  Some locations that give flu shots give both the flu shot and the pneumonia vaccine. 

By the way, if you get the pneumonia vaccine, also be sure you are taking 3,000 to 5,000 iu a day at least of vitamin D3 as a supplement.

C.  The traditional and highly recommended vaccinations for babies and small children are much safer than the rides you give them to school.  And, it’s not even close.  Plus that only counts the tiny number of side effects.  When you add the possible harms from the diseases avoided to the equation, it’s something like a million to one or MORE safer for your kids to get the vaccinations!

D.  The Parade article had some information that was a real eye opener in that regard.

Vaccines for babies, children, and young teens no longer contain ANY mercury.

And despite the fact they now know to vaccinate against more things, because the doses that are known to work are smaller, today’s many vaccines actually are less of a load to process than the fewer vaccines with much higher doses used to be.

E.  By the way, go really easy on eating tuna for you and your kids.  It’s high enough in mercury that more than one or two servings a month is not a good idea.

AND, of even more importance, make an enormous effort to avoid having you or your kids eat ANY high fructose corn syrup.  Mercury is used in one of the methods to make high fructose corn syrup.  And, by actual test, mercury is in 30% of all high fructose corn syrup.

That test found this in several major grocery store brands. 

Always read labels.  The number of foods and drinks that contain high fructose corn syrup is still startlingly large.

F.  The one exception may be the vaccine against HPV. 

Some people think it’s a bad idea because it might make teens feel safer to have sex outside of marriage.  That’s nuts and totally ridiculous in my view.  Teens who have sex don’t worry about consequences for the most part.  If STD’s and unwanted pregnancy don’t deter them, why on earth think that a disease they only might get later in life would slow them any at all. 

The two marks against the vaccine however may be more real.

There is no sure information that preventing the few HPV strains in the vaccine is protective against cancer.  And the best protection against cervical cancer is to follow the cancer prevention lifestyle I post about and get annual pap smears. So, between those two parts, unlike a polio or pneumonia vaccine, the HPV vaccine doesn’t protect much even if it works.

And, the older girls and younger women who are getting it are in the first part of their lives.  So if they die or have significant neurological harm, it’s a really horrible event.

Some women who have gotten the HPV vaccine have had such problems.  The official word is that such events are not related to the vaccine. 

Horsefeathers and even more harsh swearing on my part!

How many young girls and young women do you know of who suddenly die of no known cause or similarly become neurologically harmed for no known cause?

If this WAS common, such events might have happened without them getting the HPV vaccine.

Is it common?  Nope; No; No way! Definitely not!

It happened to several such young women who got the HPV vaccine.

Add in that it’s not needed nor that protective and you have a vaccine I think a good idea to NOT use.

THAT vaccine I believe is too risky to take or allow your child to take.