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.. single-family home, with mom at home and breastfeeding, she has enough protective factors in place to risk the small chance that she will get some disease. Plus, we wouldn't be disappointed if she actually got a few of them (chicken pox, measles, mumps, for instance).
But - we are planning to move to Guatemala in 2 years, and we will be there for 3 years. Does anyone have experience in evaluating risks/benefits in terms of living overseas, probably in a modest urban environment? DD will be just shy of 4 YO when we go. TIA |
Your child is the same child no matter where she lives. She will have the same constitution. Unless you are there when they are fighting a war or suffering from starvation, unless she has to drink dirty water or suffers from severe cold or some other form of stress, her health condition will be exactly the same no matter where she is.
You see, health or sickness doesn't depend on the Germ, but on ones constitution and things that directly affect that.
People have worked in lepra colonies and not come down with lepracy. A doctor once drank a vial of germs and other witches brew to prove that these things by themselves can not make you sick. The body takes care of them in its own way.
Going through the stomach is the route those things should be going. Vaccines go via blood, that can only serve to compromise the immune system.
In the last years I have read so much about Germs in the body that I have come to a completely different understanding.
Bacteria live with us and in us. We used to think that the bacteria does us harm but quite the opposite is true. We depend on bacteria for our life. Without bacteria we can not survive. We can not digest food, nor get rid of waste.
So, turns out that the virus that we are so worried about, we don't even know for sure what they do to us or with us.
But it is quite apparent that they do NO harm.
So, what is the problem?
Someone had a theory over 200 years ago: Germs invade our bodies and causes us to become ill.
It started a revolutionary type of medicine. Medicine started to attack those germs. We hunted them down, vaccinated in anticipation, applied antibiotic creams, took antibiotics, alcohol wipes, now antibiotic hand creams, on and on.
The truth is what Pasteur said at the end of his life:
It's not the germ but the terrain.
And although scientists know that, it sells nothing. No money is made if we are not afraid. So the Pharmaceutical companies keep that a secret.
But here are the facts:
Germ don't harm us when we have a fairly good life. It has been shown repeatedly.
People have diphtheria in the throat, polio germs in the saliva or excrement, tetanus is everywhere etc. etc.
And NONE cause any harm.
When do germs cause problems? When the body is in a state of stress, starvation, lack of fresh air, polluted water, that's when the person gets ill. Then the germs that live on and in our bodies get imbalance and go crazy.
And that should be the big worry about vaccinations. We have 90 some germs in the throat and they vaccinate against 7 with prevnar. What does that do? Cause an imbalance. Give plenty of advantage to the other 83.
We should keep healthy by eating fairly well, not drinking dirty water (by that I also mean no water that contains flouride, chloride, etc.) not fight wars, not worry about becoming ill or being afraid of things that will more than likely never happen. Get plenty of sleep, fresh air, fruit and veggies, and most importantly have a happy and cheerful outlook in life.
Fear can cause illness, too. Don't be afraid. Don't feed into the paranoia of disease, war, terrorists etc.
The advice I give to my kids, who are raising my grandchildren, is live with a positive attitude, friendly, loving, un-afraid, in peace with yourself and everyone else.
Instead of trying to avoid illness, concentrate on being healthy. And your best chance of that is with an uncompromised immune system.
Our family will never vaccinate no matter where we will travel on this planet.
