New DTaP formula??

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

A Dr. told a mother I know that in the past she had seen a lot of bad reactions with the DTaP but since they came out with the new formula she hadnt been seeing any.

Is there a new safer formulation on the market now?

[kiara7]

It used to be DPT I think. It only took them some 40 years to change it to DTaP. DPT had very bad reactions, but DTaP seems to have plenty of its own.

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

What the dr told her the new formula is very new like in the last year or so.

I am thinking the Dr. might have lied to her to get her to vax since she went in thinking of doing a delayed schedual.

[kiara7]

That sounds like it.

[applejuice]

DPT was on the market for over 50 years, since 1940. Based on a reading of the medical journals from 1940 to 1996, doctors knew that the P portion was neurotoxic and continued to use it even though the controversy raged in their own professional journals.

A study by the UCLA Medical School and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services in the early 1980s linked the DPT shot in Los Angeles County to SIDS.

http://www.scribd.com/word/fragment/...nation-Crisis? upload_id=8269205 - 25k
www.nvic.org/Diseases/whooping.htm - 107k
www.*********/vaccine/sids.html - 16k

Keep in mind that whenever a baby dies of SIDS, the police treat the investigation as a homocide with the grieving parents the primary suspects. This was told to me at a first aid instruction class for child first aid and CPR.

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

So there hasnt been a new DTaP put onto the market since 1996 right?

[applejuice]

AFAIK, no.

Doctors often treat their patients as if they know nothing about treatments.

[Gitti]

Originally Posted by MCatLvrMom2A&X

What the dr told her the new formula is very new like in the last year or so.

He was just pulling her leg. He must have been in a joking mood that day.

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

She is very happy she went ahead and did all the schedualed 2 months shots now since her older dd's school sent home a paper saying whooping cough is going around so I am not even going to bother with trying to refute what the Dr. told her

I did however tell her to make sure she watched her dd sleep for the next week more closely.

[applejuice]

The Japanese used the aP fifteen years before the Americans. They also vaccinate later, at a year, I think. They have a lower infant mortality rate also.