Posts by Deborah

My mother had five of us back in the 1940s and 1950s. No vaccines because my family has been anti-vaccine for generations. She failed at breastfeeding with number 1 and number 2. They are in their 60s and reasonably healthy. She nursed...

heathergirl, I wasn't just talking about nutrition magically preventing serious illness. I was specifically addressing the claim that children who get terribly ill from measles or influenza were "perfectly healthy" before they...

Quote: Originally Posted by heathergirl67 But it's not just polio. It's every disease. The point is that you have to look at each illness and figure out what happened. How were cases ascertained/counted...

I've never heard that it sheds via the stool. I think that might be rotavirus or the live polio vaccine. I think chickenpox sheds via nasal and oral secretions. If the child gets a bit of CP from the vaccine (as in gets a little sick)...

No, it is okay to get it from an elderly person with shingles. Same virus. Due to lack of circulating chickenpox we are all more likely to end up with shingles, vaccinated or unvaccinated.

Well congratulations! You are a very good mama.

Seemingly healthy and healthy are not equivalent. For example, there is a lot of loose ground between leukemia and perfect health. But in one study in the U.K. of children who had a hard time with measles, the only children who were put...

One problem is that with the advent of vaccines, studies on how children deal with illness and why some children get sicker than other children have sort of disappeared. For example, when it comes to polio, the vast majority of the...

My mother raised 5 healthy children without any vaccinations. She had trouble with breastfeeding the first three and then managed okay with the last two: eleven months and seven months (this was prolonged nursing for the 1950s). We are...

http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.php this is where I usually start searching.