Polio?

[ankh]

We stopped vaccinating a few years ago. Our homeopath mentioned the polio vaccine. I am considering it, but am a bit unsure. Any ideas?

[MissRubyandKen]

Are you in the USA? Research the number of polio cases in the US in the past two decades. Are you planning to travel? If so research the polio cases there too, as it may affect your decision. Research the efficacy of IPV.

The polio vaccine was among the first to be scratched off my list for immediate consideration. Alongside chickenpox and mumps.

[alegna]

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No real chance of encountering polio in the US. If I truly felt that my child were at risk of polio, I'd find the OPV. I don't trust the IPV to be effective.

-Angela

[Ophelia]

Here is some more info on polio and the polio vaccine:

http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/...es-work/polio/

Polio history is quite interesting.

[jeliphish]

we did do the OPV, which is why I agreed to it. There are 4 (older) members of my family who are affected by it and I *personally* felt safer getting it for DD. Not that I felt she was directly in danger of it....it just felt right to do it because I constantly see my family members who have been dibilitated by it - and my family, statistically, has been affected by it way more than the norm.
We have declined and delayed most other vaccines.

[Gitti]

Originally Posted by ankh

We stopped vaccinating a few years ago. Our homeopath mentioned the polio vaccine. I am considering it, but am a bit unsure. Any ideas?

imo he is totally uninformed. Not about polio per se but about diseases in general.

Maybe you should get informed about polio and tell him what it's all about. He has not done any research. I am so shocked that a homeopath would fear polio.

Polio was a virus pretty much like the common cold. I believe 98% of people who had polio never even knew it.....

Now we don't see polio because we don't test for it. The virus is still with us and always will be. Oh, it's a long story. Maybe you could look in the archives.

Anyway, I would not vaccinate against polio, nor any other disease. Why inject the disease you don't want?

[humptydumpty]

I just have to comment, because I know someone who had polio. That was in the 80, he was about 12 years old and he did suffer from paralysis.
It is horrible, and I would never risk to get this desease.
Maybe the risk of getting it is slim, maybe a lot of people do not react to it with paralyis but you dont know, maybe your immune system is weak when you get it.
Plus polio is still very active in some parts of the world. India for example, with modern travel who guarantees that we are safe in western europe?
The polio vaccine currently given is an injection with dead material, it is not a live vaccine anymore. So it is a lot saver and your family members can not get polio from a recently vacinated child.
Do some research yourself and consider the options surely your GP can advise.

[alegna]

Originally Posted by humptydumpty

I just have to comment, because I know someone who had polio. That was in the 80, he was about 12 years old and he did suffer from paralysis.
It is horrible, and I would never risk to get this desease.
Maybe the risk of getting it is slim, maybe a lot of people do not react to it with paralyis but you dont know, maybe your immune system is weak when you get it.
Plus polio is still very active in some parts of the world. India for example, with modern travel who guarantees that we are safe in western europe?
The polio vaccine currently given is an injection with dead material, it is not a live vaccine anymore. So it is a lot saver and your family members can not get polio from a recently vacinated child.
Do some research yourself and consider the options surely your GP can advise.

Even including travel- there has been NO wild polio (none, zip, zilch) in the Western Hemisphere in decades. That makes the risk pretty low.

Combine that with the fact that the IPV is pretty much untested, and many think it most likely useless, I see no purpose in using it.

If I truly felt my child was at risk of contracting polio, I would investigate getting the OPV (which IS live and CAN cause polio)

-Angela

[ankh]

Thank you, we are now living in the UK. I will do some reading.

[katmann]

The OPV can allow the virus to spread from vaccinated to unvaccinated persons (Vaccine Associated Paralytic Polio, VAPP). Another consideration.

[Gitti]

Originally Posted by humptydumpty

I just have to comment, because I know someone who had polio. That was in the 80, he was about 12 years old and he did suffer from paralysis.
It is horrible, and I would never risk to get this desease.
Maybe the risk of getting it is slim, maybe a lot of people do not react to it with paralyis but you dont know, maybe your immune system is weak when you get it.
Plus polio is still very active in some parts of the world. India for example, with modern travel who guarantees that we are safe in western europe?
The polio vaccine currently given is an injection with dead material, it is not a live vaccine anymore. So it is a lot saver and your family members can not get polio from a recently vacinated child.
Do some research yourself and consider the options surely your GP can advise.

I personally know 4 people who had polio. Very sad.
One was a boy my age who I met when we were 16. He had a severe limp.
The second was a girl who I met in Kindergarten and found out years later that she got polio as a very young child.
Then I met an older woman who was limping and I found out she had polio as a child.
And a friend of my daughter in law who had polio when she was in an orphanage in China.
All cases were confirmed to have been caused by the OPV.

We don't know how many people in the Western Hemisphere had polio without symptoms. They suspect back in the days when Polio was about like the common cold, that 99% of people had contact with the polio virus at one point.

When there was a major outbreak of Polio in the US, a part at least was attributed to DDT and other pesticided. When the Polio vaccine was brought on the market, DDT was baned. So was the polio vaccine effective or was it the fact that we no longer poisoned people and animals?

In India DDT is being used to spray crops. DDT is a major cause of "polio".