Vaccines Safe for Vaccine-Allergic Kids?

[mama1803]

Are they serious??????????

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/119987.php

[loveyourohana]

:Puke:Puke:Puke:Puke

[Fyrestorm]

OMG! What will they come up with next? Lets allow a child to have a life threatening reaction just to save them from the DEADLY Chicken Pox Are they serious?????

[Ophelia]

Who's best interest?

Sooo, basically what they are saying is:

1. Allergic reactions are extremely rare (With VAERS only estimated at being 10% of reactions reported - hmmm...you decide.)
2 . Even if we know your child might have a reaction or they had one before, let's just shoot them up anyways and take our chances! And let's give them even more pharmaceutical drugs in the meantime.

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Conflict of interest disclosure for Hopkins investigators: Halsey has received research support from vaccine manufacturer Wyeth and is a consultant for vaccine manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline and Merck.

It doesn't look like we can access the text for the AAP article it points to. I'd also be interested in what they are talking about here:

Letters to the Editor - Immunization Uptake in Siblings of Children With Autism

[peainthepod]

This is unconscionable. The people behind this evil nonsense should be stripped of their degrees and sued into destitution. :

[peainthepod]

I just noticed this at the bottom:

Conflict of interest disclosure for Hopkins investigators: Halsey has received research support from vaccine manufacturer Wyeth and is a consultant for vaccine manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline and Merck.

You don't say...

Edit: Aaaaaand beaten by Ophelia...oops

[RedPony]

What a load of bs. I just sent the article to my DH (who is still somewhat on the fence). Sheesh. :roll:

[infraread]

Oh, hell no.

I can tell you from experience, there are doctors out there who will not recognize an allergic reaction when they see one. Because, it can't possibly be an allergic reaction... it has to be something else.

An allergy is an immune response, anyway. So wouldn't giving meds to suppress the immune response defeat the purpose of the vaccine, which is supposed to stimulate an immune response? I think it's a different type of response, but have they studied at all how this would work?