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Originally Posted by natashaccat
Just an FYI, there are quite a few children's vax's that do have mercury in them, just in ammts so small that the mfr can claim that they are trimerasol (sp?) free. Its sorta like all those companies are allowed to claim that their foods are trans fat free but if you read the ingredients list you'll see partially hydrogenated oil listed. The one vax that does have full strength trimerosol (at least when I researched this it did) is the flu shot, not sure if this is still the case though.
I too have a hard time with vax's. With my dd1 I started the reccomended program but stopped after she ran a 104 fever with her 4 mo round of shots. I tried again at 6 mo with just two shots and the same thing. After that we waited a year and did the rest of her vax's one shot at a time and this seems to be OK.
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Wow, Simone, I didn't know any of that about the allowable amounts of thimerosol.
When I was preg w/ E (he's now 5.5), I took the Mothering issue about mercury in vaccines to the birth center. Dana (the head midwife) read it and told me they threw out all their thimerosol-filled RhoGam that day. That day. I was so excited to see progress (and I have to have RhoGam w/ each baby, so knowing it wasn't going to be tainted with thimerosol was a plus,
). Now I wonder WTF are the vaccine companies thinking.
And is it true that most vax mixtures have substituted aluminum for thimerosol as a preservative? If so, how awful.
Making those parenting choices is so hard...I didn't have this info when W was born, and bawled like a baby just during the PKU, you can imagine how I felt (and how she felt) during the routine shots for the years she underwent them. My dad was a PA and when she was 6 months he gave her her round of shots and polio vax and said it was the worst part of his job, because he hates to see babies scream.
He never forgot that memory, although as a polio survivor he was a staunch supporter of vaccinations.
I think that in the future we will probably go with the polio vax and maybe (maybe) diptheria. But not tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, or rubella. Or of course chicken pox.
Talking with one HCP I know well she told me that boys are so much more likely to be adversely affected by vaccinations that she's scared to vaccinate boys at all.
I know another HSing mom whose son was truly vaccine damaged by the DTP...it's a very sad thing to see, knowing it was totally preventable.
Sorry to continue on the vax discussion, if anyone is uncomfortable with this, they can request to have my post moved or deleted.
love, p