Where I started...
My suggestion is that you continue on and do disease by disease, vaccine by vaccine...writing down "other" questions that come to mind (or bookmarking threads that talk about questions you have) to go through later.
Questions about each disease (I'll use polio as an example):
What is polio?
What different kinds of polio exist?
Who is at risk for getting polio?
What are the risks factors in contracting polio?
How is polio spread/how do you get it?
How soon after exposure to polio do symptoms appear?
What are the symptoms of polio?
How long does it last?
How is polio diagnosed?
What treatments are available for polio?
What prevention can you take so you will not contract polio?
What is the history of polio?
How common is polio?
What are the benefits of getting polio?
What are the risks of getting polio?
How does one get life-long immunity from polio?
What other information do I need to know about polio?
The ask questions about the vaccine (using polio as an example again):
What is the history of the polio vaccine?
What vaccines are available for polio?
Which is the “safest” vaccine available for polio?
Which is the most “effective” vaccine available for polio?
Reasons to vaccinate?
Reasons not to vaccinate?
What benefits are involved in vaccinating against polio?
What risks are involved in vaccinating against polio?
What are the ingredients in the polio vaccine?
How do the ingredients of the polio vaccine affect the human body?
What are the contraindications for the polio vaccine?
What are adverse affects that can occur when being vaccinated against polio?
What syndromes are associated with the polio vaccine?
How many doses are needed for the vaccine to be effective?
How long does the vaccine last (does it wear off)?
What other information do I need to know about the polio vaccine?
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When you're done with each disease and each vaccine--then move on to the greater questions....
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Here's the list of things to talk with your doctor (or just ask yourself) about in relationship to vaccines:
Why should I immunize? Is there any reason I shouldn't immunize?
Do you have children? Are they immunized? With every vaccination you're asking me to allow? Are you immunized yourself? With every vaccination you're recommending to me?
Are vaccines 100% safe? What studies have been done to prove their safety? Who funded these studies (if any exist)?
Are they 100% effective? What studies have been done to prove their efficacy? Who funded these studies (if any exist)?
How long can you guarantee a particular vaccine to protect my child?
Vaccines only contain mercury (residual amounts, formaldehyde, aluminum, antifreeze, MSG, phenol, etc. - aren't those poisons?
Vaccines contain 5 or more viruses in one shot, would a baby normally contract 5 diseases at one time? (At such a young age?) Is it really safe to expose my baby to so many different diseases at one time? Are the doses different for lets say a 4 yr old compared to a 2 mo old?
If a child contracts a disease normally it usually enters through a mucous membrane in their body and goes through many barriers in the body before it reaches the bloodstream. When a child is vaccinated the vaccine is injected into the muscle and goes straight to the blood. Are the antibodies then exactly the same?
How come one gives life long immunity and the other immunity wanes?
Vaccines are cultured on mediums such as monkey kidneys, chick embryos and human diploid cells. That gives me a lot of concerns:
First of all, do we know my child is not allergic to eggs?
Secondly, I have some moral concerns about the aborted fetus tissues.
Third, what genetic material is being injected into a child's body along with the vaccine? What are the possible consequences to those ingredients? What studies have been preformed to prove that it's safe?
Do you have unvaccinated children in your practice? Do you compare vaccinated to unvaccinated children in your practice?
Are there any studies that compare vaccinated children to unvaccinated children?
Have Vaccines been tested for carcinogenic material? Teratogenic (gene altering) effects? Reproductive system affects? What studies prove their safety?
What is the National Vaccine Injury Act? How many are reported each year?
What is VAERS? How many reports are there each year?
Insurance companies do not cover for damage to life and property due to:
*Acts of God
*Nuclear war and nuclear power plant accidents
*Vaccination
Why is vaccination on this list?
Do we legally have to vaccinate? For school - are there exemptions?
Can I have the vaccine package inserts? Have you read the whole insert?
Is it an emergency that I vaccinate? Or can it wait till I decide?
If my child suffers adverse reactions to any vaccine can I file suit against the manufacturers of the product?
When is the most dangerous period for my child to come in contact with these diseases?
How long until the vaccines become effective/how many vaccines does it take for my child to be “immune”?
***And ask/answer any other questions you may have...
: and am afraid I am missing some importaant information. Does anyone have suggestions on how/where to start. I thought I could do it by VPD - one by one, but I get so sidetracked with other info and end right back up into "big questions" like the one I just posted about vax'd vs non vax'd and the reports ... I have done my stint in writing research papers and always have done really well... and never had this much of an issue bcause there always seemed to be a 'wall' where I could draw the line and never get beyond that..but this is SO much different as it's my DS' health here (which I know you all understand the difference in severity of research)
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