Can be Deleted!! Help convince me not to do DTap and HIB

[bureaumm]

Ok so I have not vax'd my 7 month old DS and don't plan on anything till 2 years. At that time my ped and I will come up with a schedule. My DH was fine with this but he was reading our Dr. Sears vacine book and said I think we should get DTaP and HIB. We live in the city but DS is not in day care...
Please give me the reasons not to do these!! I know I had a ton of reason's but right now I am drawing blanks and need advice..
He is still BF'd
I refuse to inject a baby with potentially life threatening ingredients
His risk of getting D is rare but can we get DTap w/out D? Is Whooping cough really that bad?? Bad enough to risk "side effects of the vax"? How would he get tetnus?? He doesn't even roll over yet??
Please help! I am under the gun and trying to work from home and am not coming up with my research links!!
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[alegna]

DTaP-

Diptheria is nearly unheard of in the US- check the numbers.
Tetanus is not and has never been a signifiant risk to children. Chances are much greater of him being struck by lightening Children have good circulation and tetanus is anerobic. Can't survive if there's oxygen.
Pertussis is only risky under a year. Past that it's just annoying.

DTaP is highly reactive.


Hib-
You weren't vaxed for Hib- ever worry about it? The bacterial vaccines like this are very effective. Problem is when you eliminate a handful of strains, other strains just fill in. Hib has NOT reduced overall numbers of cases of meningitis. They're simply different types now. Also Hib is so effective that recent studies show that it's not even in circulation outside isolated populations (amish) Add to this that pre-vaccine basically ALL children tested immune by around 5yrs old and had no known history of serious disease due to Hib.

-Angela

[IrishMa]

Originally Posted by bureaumm

Ok so I have not vax'd my 7 month old DS and don't plan on anything till 2 years. At that time my ped and I will come up with a schedule. My DH was fine with this but he was reading our Dr. Sears vacine book and said I think we should get DTaP and HIB. We live in the city but DS is not in day care...
Please give me the reasons not to do these!! I know I had a ton of reason's but right now I am drawing blanks and need advice..
He is still BF'd
I refuse to inject a baby with potentially life threatening ingredients
His risk of getting D is rare but can we get DTap w/out D? Is Whooping cough really that bad?? Bad enough to risk "side effects of the vax"? How would he get tetnus?? He doesn't even roll over yet??
Please help! I am under the gun and trying to work from home and am not coming up with my research links!!
[e-mail]

Have you seen this web site? http://www.nvic.org/
The lady who started this had a kid who died (I think) or was severely injured from the DTap. She wrote a book about it that is also to be found on the web site. I find their info to be relatively straightforward and a decent response to a lot of the sensationalized stuff. You might find what you are looking for. Good luck and kind regards to you in the meantime.

[katiesmom]

Also keep in mind that the whooping cough protection from DTaP isn't that great. Since the virus has been killed (due to it's high reactivity), it isn't as effective either. There are still outbreaks in mostly vaccinated populations.

[~Charlie's~Angel~]

I would have to say go to the cdc website, and pull up the ingredients for the DTap vaccine, Page 1

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pin...nt-table-2.pdf ,

and show them to your husband. And ask him, would you want to inject this crap into YOUR body? (monkey kidney tissue and aluminum sulfate, YUM!!!!)

[TanyaS]

I would have him read everything about HiB and DTaP on this site.

www.insidevaccines.com/wordpress

HiB has some really interesting information in the Sisyphus articles.

[bureaumm]

Originally Posted by Barbie64g

I would have to say go to the cdc website, and pull up the ingredients for the DTap vaccine, Page 1

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pin...nt-table-2.pdf ,

and show them to your husband. And ask him, would you want to inject this crap into YOUR body? (monkey kidney tissue and aluminum sulfate, YUM!!!!)

Yippie No shots We looked at the ingredients and decided that since we are very picky about what we eat and what we feed him..ingredients readers and not buying certain sauce for pasta because of the amount of suger but we are going to inject our little guy with WHAT???
Thanks everyone!!!

[mom2dd]

Originally Posted by katiesmom

Also keep in mind that the whooping cough protection from DTaP isn't that great. Since the virus has been killed (due to it's high reactivity), it isn't as effective either. There are still outbreaks in mostly vaccinated populations.

I agree!

Originally Posted by bureaumm

Yippie No shots We looked at the ingredients and decided that since we are very picky about what we eat and what we feed him..ingredients readers and not buying certain sauce for pasta because of the amount of suger but we are going to inject our little guy with WHAT???
Thanks everyone!!!

WTG!

I know I'm new here but I also have choosen not to vaccinate my dd and instead am doing an alternative "vaccination" called homeoprophylaxis. (I feel kinda silly because I'll bet most of you guys already know about it. Please have patience with me because I'm new.)