Posts by stacey05

Thank you, Deborah and Addy's Mom!! It helps to come here and get grounded again!! )

That's ok...you don't have to ask them. It isn't really a big deal and it probably was hib. I have thought about this..I used to get soooo many ear infections, bad and painful ones when I was little...for many years! It was horrible. ...

We are military and are always given the 3rd degree about not vaccinating, but, thankfully, have never been asked to sign something and we have always been seen when we needed to be. I stopped taking my 5th child to WBV because I didn't...

Ok, I know I am wishy washy about this. I was thinking of maybe giving this vaccine to my child when he turned 2. He is 2 1/2 now. He has started stuttering (maybe normal developmental dysfluency, but has some risk factors for a...

another question I have is about the little girl who died of meningitis (pneumococcal). The mom said that they didn't vaccinate with prevnar or chicken pox. Did they vaccinate for hib? any of the others? Some people think (hilary...

Ok, I watched the video and read the article and it really does play on parents' fears! Meningitis is one that scares me and the hib and prevnar are ones I have thought long and hard about giving my toddler. I worry about serotype...

Addys Mom, That is sad about your friends. I am glad they survived it, though!! I do have a question for you. Do they know for sure it was hib? I mean, I thought before the vax they didn't test for the types? I could be way off,...

I read this from the package insert of ActHib vaccine: >Before effective vaccines were introduced, it was estimated that one in 200 children developed invasive H influenzae type b disease by the age of 5 years.< Is this...

Here is a link to vaccine package inserts...I haven't read them so I am not sure what specifically they each list for vaccine reactions. hope this helps http://www.immunize.org/packageinserts/

Meningitis scares me. But, I believe that vaccinating for meningitis isn't what it appears to be. When I look at Hib vaccine, I see that hib has indeed gone down alot. But, Hia and Hif have gone up and some think pneumoccocal (sp?)...