Boosters?

[MyBoysBlue]

My DS 1 was vaxed up till 2 years old on schedule. I am wondering what the pro's and con's are of giving him his 6 year old booster. I know one more vax probably is not what he needs but since it is one shot in a bigger kid not a baby???. If he doesn't get the shot will he be more likely to get Measles Mumps or Rubella and get natural immunity while he is still young? Are his earlier shots likely to keep him from getting it still or delay it till he is in the more dangerous teen age years for Mumps?

[loveyourohana]

Take my advice or leave it, but I personally don't think that being bigger means that the immune system can handle introducing toxins... I really personally don't! I think it all falls on the immune system! With that I believe that if the immune system is strong enough to process a vaccination, its strong enough to fight the actual disease which is IMHO better than introducing toxins and mulitiple diseases at once. My son reacted to the MMR and Pertusis though... so that got me started on my journey of What in the world did the medical industry inject into my perfect healthy baby boy, that would cause him so much pain and suffering? Litterally I felt he had been subjected to a torture chamber in the middle ages. He screamed for hours and hours and hours, and the reaction was? Yeah sometimes the reactions are not fun, or I don't believe that he was reacting from a vaccination? What? Since then...

I believe in strengthening the immune system, and holistic healing way more than I do the big wigs in the medical industry. No more vaccines in my family... EVER!

BTW... there was a time that I did believe that allowing my next baby to grow more before I introduced vaccinations was a smarter way to go, but the more I dug in, the more I learned, the more studies I watched, the more it has opened my eyes otherwise. I went from selective to introducing slower to, no way, no more!

It makes me frustrated that other moms have to feel the way that I felt at one time, frustrated and angry that money and numbers have become more important than a human being and comon sense... I am right here with you! Been there, and I am still there... it does get easier! Promise!

I think you are definately in the right place for some wonderful answers! Look up each shot individually, read the inserts, read the studies! Look into exemptions if you don't feel they are right for you... I am so thankful for this site!

[Pariah]

Originally Posted by loveyourohana

Take my advice or leave it, but I personally don't think that being bigger means that the immune system can handle introducing toxins...

I agree. I've read about plenty of teens and adults having severe vax reactions.

[Twinklefae]

Both my sister and I were vax'd once with the MMR and we both had the measles. If that helps you.

[ZoeyZoo]

If you are worried whether you LO has any immunity you could also check titers. Many states will even take a lab report in lieu of boosters.

[MyBoysBlue]

I'm not worried about exemptions. Here in Alberta Canada vax's are not mandated so you don't even have to present and exemption. He's been in the same school for Playschool, Kindergarten and now grade one, I've never been asked about vax's. I don't know much about titters. I am only 2 years into this decision. I guess my real worry is that his previous vax's will continue to protect him from Mumps until he gets into his teenage years when it is more dangerous for a boy to get Mumps. I eventually want grandkids. LOL I guess I should look up how likely it is for him to become sterile if he does get it as a teenager. If it isn't likely, I guess I don't have to worry about it.

[spero]

Originally Posted by Twinklefae

Both my sister and I were vax'd once with the MMR and we both had the measles. If that helps you.

I was vaxed for MMR as a kid and contracted mumps anyway, when I was 10 or 11.

[ZoeyZoo]

Titers is a blood draw where they look for antibodies to a certain disease. I may put your mind at ease to whether the vax "took".

Look into mumps a little further. Though sterility is a possibility it is not common - even if caught as a teenager or adult.

Here's a quote from Dr. Mendelsohn
"If total sterility as a consequence of orchitis were a significant threat, and if the mumps immunizations assured adult males that they would not contract it, I would be among those doctors who urge immunization. I'm not, because their argument makes no sense. Orchitis rarely causes sterility, and when it does, because only one testicle is usually affected, the sperm production capacity of the unaffected testicle could repopulate the world! And that's not all. No one knows whether the mumps vaccination confers an immunity that lasts into the adult years. Consequently, there is an open question whether, when your child is immunized against mumps at fifteen months arid escapes this disease in childhood, he may suffer more serious consequences when he contracts it as an adult."

It is from this site if you want to read more. It is an extraction from How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor.
http://www.*********/vaccines/mendelsohn.html#MUMPS

[Twinklefae]

Originally Posted by ZoeyZoo

Titers is a blood draw where they look for antibodies to a certain disease. I may put your mind at ease to whether the vax "took".

Look into mumps a little further. Though sterility is a possibility it is not common - even if caught as a teenager or adult.

Here's a quote from Dr. Mendelsohn
"If total sterility as a consequence of orchitis were a significant threat, and if the mumps immunizations assured adult males that they would not contract it, I would be among those doctors who urge immunization. I'm not, because their argument makes no sense. Orchitis rarely causes sterility, and when it does, because only one testicle is usually affected, the sperm production capacity of the unaffected testicle could repopulate the world! And that's not all. No one knows whether the mumps vaccination confers an immunity that lasts into the adult years. Consequently, there is an open question whether, when your child is immunized against mumps at fifteen months arid escapes this disease in childhood, he may suffer more serious consequences when he contracts it as an adult."

It is from this site if you want to read more. It is an extraction from How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor.
http://www.*********/vaccines/mendelsohn.html#MUMPS

I believe that this "risk" is entirely theoretical and has never actually happened. (Totally sterility, I mean) I don't know where I read it though, so can't provide a link.