[Turquesa]

Please contribute! Remember, these are <i>cliches</i>, or overused statements that you've heard (first or second-hand) from pediatricians, public health officials, drug companies, etc.<br><br>
I'll start with my Top 5:<br><br>
1.<b>“Young parents don’t realize what it was like….”</b> (Um, actually we do. Those of us born in the 1970s and 80s even experienced chicken pox, and many of us hadn’t even heard of a lot of diseases until a vaccine came out for them. It’s not like there was a HIB quarantine on my block <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/eyesroll.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="roll">).<br><br>
2.<b>“It’s just a little prick. It won’t last.”</b> (Oh for the love of God’s green earth! <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/banghead.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="banghead"> Do they *really* think that’s why there is a growing movement of vaccine skeptics? Do they really think we’re that shallow? Do they really think we’re demanding safe vaccines and filing exemptions and fighting tirelessly to change public policy because we’re afraid of needles??? If they do, they have a long way to go in trying to convince us to get our kids "fully" vaccinated).<br><br>
3.<b>“There’s more mercury in a can of tuna.”</b> (Of course, we aren’t injecting tuna into our blood streams. And speaking only for myself, that’s one of many reasons that I’m vegetarian<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/orngbiggrin.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="orange big grin">).<br><br>
4.<b>“You know, They proved that whole autism thing wrong.”</b> (I usually hear this before any doctor listens to the reasons for my skepticism. They just assume that autism is at the root of my apprehension because that’s what they heard on PBS and from their AAP colleagues. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/eyesroll.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="roll"> The autism argument is probably the most commonly cited because vax proponents see it as the easiest to beat down).<br><br>
5.<b>“The benefits far outweigh the risks."</b><br>
(Thank you. In exercising my legal right to choose whether and how to vaccinate my children, I will be the judge of which risks and which benefits I am willing to accept).

 

[Marnica]

yep to all those<br><br>
here are a couple more:<br><br>
1) <b>Your unvaxed kids are putting all other children at risk.</b><br>
First of all all my DS is not a vessel of disease, and if you believe your precious vaccines are so effective, what are you worried about anyway??<br><br>
2) <b>There is more aluminum in breastmilk</b> this is kind of like the tuna/mercury thing<br><br>
3) <b>You need to vax to contribute to "herd immunity" after all these disease that have been eradicated like polio are only a plane ride away.</b> I'm not willing to throw my kid under the bus to contribute to a concept I don't agree. Even if I did buy the whole herd immunity arguement, My first priority is protecting my child.

 

[lasciate]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">Please contribute! Remember, these are <i>cliches</i>, or overused statements that you've found cited in this forum, in media, or your own experience with health care providers.<br><br>
I'll start with my Top 5:<br><br>
1.<b>“Young parents don’t realize what it was like….”</b> (Um, actually we do. Those of us born in the 1970s and 80s even experienced chicken pox, and many of us hadn’t even heard of a lot of diseases until a vaccine came out for them. It’s not like there was a HIB quarantine on my block <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/eyesroll.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="roll">).</div>
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You just contradicted yourself. How can you know what a disease was like if you had never heard of it?

 

[Jadzia]

I have seen this Paul Offit talking point taking hold:<br><br><b>"Vaccines are safer today because there are fewer antigens."</b> As if that is all that is in vaccines - antigens and sugar water.<br><br><b>"Kids get exposed to more antigens on a daily basis than they do from vaccines."</b> As if kids would normally be exposed to measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, polio, diptheria, tetanus and whopping cough all in one day.

 

[heathergirl67]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">You just contradicted yourself. How can you know what a disease was like if you had never heard of it?</div>
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And they're usually not talking about chicken pox. They're talking about polio, diptheria, menengitis, etc. The ones that we didn't see a lot of as kids because the vaccines for them had been out for a while before we were born.

 

[ammiga]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">You just contradicted yourself. How can you know what a disease was like if you had never heard of it?</div>
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Because when people were tested for Hib, over 95% of people had active immunity without having been vaccinated. We know what it was like because we all had it, we just didn't know or care at the time.<br><br><b>The rotavirus vaccine isn't even a shot, so that one shouldn't bother you.</b> Ummm... sure. I guess that would be true if my only concern about vaccines was the pain from the needle.

 

[kavamamakava]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">Because when people were tested for Hib, over 95% of people had active immunity without having been vaccinated. We know what it was like because we all had it, we just didn't know or care at the time.<br><br><b>The rotavirus vaccine isn't even a shot, so that one shouldn't bother you.</b> Ummm... sure. I guess that would be true if my only concern about vaccines was the pain from the needle.</div>
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I know this isn't the thread topic, but I did a presentation for my nutrition class last quarter and discovered that breastmilk has a specific ingredient to combat rotavirus! And I've been steeped in as much info on breastmilk as I could get my hands on for the past 10 yrs and that doesn't count my personal breastfeeding exposure and experience throughout my life.

 

[freestylemama]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">yep to all those<br><br>
here are a couple more:<br><br>
1) <b>Your unvaxed kids are putting all other children at risk.</b><br>
First of all all my DS is not a vessel of disease, and if you believe your precious vaccines are so effective, what are you worried about anyway??</div>
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Not everyone is able to get live vaccines and many sick people rely on healthy people to keep vaccine preventable diseases out of the environment. This is a very valid argument for concerned parents with children with compromised immune systems. One of DD's little friends is HIV+ and one of her babysitters has MS. They cannot get certain vaccines and rely on the rest of us to stay healthy. Having close relationships with a number of people who can't get vaccinated has really changed my perspective about vaccinating and is the reason why we're catching our DD up on everything. Sometimes it's not just about us.

 

[freestylemama]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">I know this isn't the thread topic, but I did a presentation for my nutrition class last quarter and discovered that breastmilk has a specific ingredient to combat rotavirus! And I've been steeped in as much info on breastmilk as I could get my hands on for the past 10 yrs and that doesn't count my personal breastfeeding exposure and experience throughout my life.</div>
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That doesn't mean it prevents it though. A few years ago my daughter's play group passed the rotovirus around and every kid in that group was breastfed (and none were vaxed against the rotovirus) <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol">:.

 

[kavamamakava]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">That doesn't mean it prevents it though. A few years ago my daughter's play group passed the rotovirus around and every kid in that group was breastfed (and none were vaxed against the rotovirus) <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol">:.</div>
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I have a feeling it does a better job than the rotavirus vax.

 

[freestylemama]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">I have a feeling it does a better job than the rotavirus vax.</div>
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Can you explain how? I'm interested in reading more about the paper you wrote. What sources did you use? It was uncanny how fast the virus spread in this little play circle. We were all nursing them at the time too. It was pretty gross. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol">

 

[95191]

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Are you doing the same for yourself?<br><br>
Since most of the adults in this country <i>don't know</i> if they still hold immunity (unless you pay-most insurances will not do a test) I feel it is wrong to say it's the children who hold the HEARD together. There are far more adults in this country than children, no one says a word about that- it's only the unvaxed children at fault. Why is that?<br><br>
Most insurances won't pay for an adult to vax (again unless you test while preggers) you are own your own to pay up-so most don't do it.

 

[an_domhan]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">One of DD's little friends is HIV+</div>
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Respectfully, if a person is HIV + or has demonstrable immune system issues, are they not required to take more precaution when interacting with society? If my child was compromised, it is not my neighbor's responsibility to ensure my child's safety.<br><br><div style="margin:20px;margin-top:5px;">
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Are you under the impression that vaccinated people don't spread disease?

 

[MountainMamaGC]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">Not everyone is able to get live vaccines and many sick people rely on healthy people to keep vaccine preventable diseases out of the environment. This is a very valid argument for concerned parents with children with compromised immune systems. One of DD's little friends is HIV+ and one of her babysitters has MS. They cannot get certain vaccines and rely on the rest of us to stay healthy. Having close relationships with a number of people who can't get vaccinated has really changed my perspective about vaccinating and is the reason why we're catching our DD up on everything. Sometimes it's not just about us.</div>
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I am immunocompromised and peoples live vaccines put me at risk. They put the HIV+ and cancer patients at risk too.<br><br>
I would rather people not because an unvaccinated person would be visibly sick and I could choose to stay away. Freshly vaccinated people dont have any visible signs of sickness and short of asking them, I have no idea who they are. So please dont do me any favors.

 

[kavamamakava]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">Can you explain how? I'm interested in reading more about the paper you wrote. What sources did you use? It was uncanny how fast the virus spread in this little play circle. We were all nursing them at the time too. It was pretty gross. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol"></div>
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I found the information here: <a href="http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10935&page=48" target="_blank">http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10935&page=48</a> IT's a book about the ingredients in Infant Formula, believe it or not. There are about 30 ingredients (as of the publication of this book in 2004) that have been specifically isolated from breastmilk that are anti-infectives or have immunological properties. There are even T-cells in breastmilk. Recently cells have been discovered in breastmilk that were named HAMLET that actually kill cancerous cells.<br><br>
If you look at the ingredients in the breastmilk on the left side, it then explains how each ingredient works in the function column.<br>
So Lactadherin is a protein that prevents Rotavirus from binding to the digestive system and helps pass it out.<br>
Were any of the nurslings in that play group hospitalized? I don't have first-hand experience with Rotavirus but I know that many babies who contract this illness and are not breastfed end up in the hospital for treatment.<br><br>
Also, once a nursling starts eating solids, the gut permeability changes and the coating that breastmilk gives to the digestive tract isn't 100% protective. But that's ok because as babies get older they develop their own immune systems and aren't just relying on breastmilk for protection. Their blood/brain barrier is mostly finished developing and the myelin sheath on nerve endings has developed a lot tool. Breastmilk does have surges and boosts of immunities for the nursling at different developmental stages too - for as long as breastfeeding continues.<br><br>
I didn't write a paper or I would share it. It was a group presentation so we had a powerpoint and each took on different sections of the presentation about infant feeding methods in the first year. I started and said that I wasn't going to talk about how breastfeeding lowers risks of contracting this or that disease because breastmilk is the standard and any other type of food just increases the risk of contracting the disease and increases the risk of having more serious effects and complications from the disease.

 

[freestylemama]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">I am immunocompromised and peoples live vaccines put me at risk. They put the HIV+ and cancer patients at risk too.</div>
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I'm well aware of that (and we choose dead vaccines) but that doesn't negate the fact that not vaccinating at all also puts them at risk.<br><br>
I know that vaccines aren't 100%. My husband and I have gotten some shots as well to catch ourselves up (and our county does them for free) when we've traveled, etc.<br><br>
I refuse to even engage in the point that it's not my responsibility to worry about the kiddo with HIV.

 

[MountainMamaGC]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">I'm well aware of that (and we choose dead vaccines) but that doesn't negate the fact that not vaccinating at all also puts them at risk.<br><br>
I know that vaccines aren't 100%. My husband and I have gotten some shots as well to catch ourselves up (and our county does them for free).<br><br>
I refuse to even engage in the point that it's not my responsibility to worry about the kiddo with HIV.</div>
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My responsibilty lies in the fact that when my kid is sick, I keep her home. Thats what people dont do enough of these days.

 

[95191]

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in the US you are talking in the $100.00's and lots of insurance companies won't pay for children at all (not all states, but in mine that are not required to pay and don't)-the cost is simply out of reach for most adults, even the cost of the flu shot is hard for some<br><br>
the fact still remains more adults vs children, and nothing is said about that group

 

[freestylemama]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">I found the information here: <a href="http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10935&page=48" target="_blank">http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10935&page=48</a> IT's a book about the ingredients in Infant Formula, believe it or not. There are about 30 ingredients (as of the publication of this book in 2004) that have been specifically isolated from breastmilk that are anti-infectives or have immunological properties. There are even T-cells in breastmilk. Recently cells have been discovered in breastmilk that were named HAMLET that actually kill cancerous cells.<br><br>
If you look at the ingredients in the breastmilk on the left side, it then explains how each ingredient works in the function column.<br>
So Lactadherin is a protein that prevents Rotavirus from binding to the digestive system and helps pass it out.<br>
Were any of the nurslings in that play group hospitalized? I don't have first-hand experience with Rotavirus but I know that many babies who contract this illness and are not breastfed end up in the hospital for treatment.<br><br>
Also, once a nursling starts eating solids, the gut permeability changes and the coating that breastmilk gives to the digestive tract isn't 100% protective. But that's ok because as babies get older they develop their own immune systems and aren't just relying on breastmilk for protection. Their blood/brain barrier is mostly finished developing and the myelin sheath on nerve endings has developed a lot tool. Breastmilk does have surges and boosts of immunities for the nursling at different developmental stages too - for as long as breastfeeding continues.<br><br>
I didn't write a paper or I would share it. It was a group presentation so we had a powerpoint and each took on different sections of the presentation about infant feeding methods in the first year. I started and said that I wasn't going to talk about how breastfeeding lowers risks of contracting this or that disease because breastmilk is the standard and any other type of food just increases the risk of contracting the disease and increases the risk of having more serious effects and complications from the disease.</div>
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Thanks for sharing this. The kids were all toddlers when they got sick and none were hospitalized. I was so glad that I was able to nurse my LO through it all. Her doc was really glad she was nursing during it as well b/c he said that it really helped shorten the duration and severity.

 

[WildKingdom]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">My responsibilty lies in the fact that when my kid is sick, I keep her home. Thats what people dont do enough of these days.</div>
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Many illnesses are contagious before there are any outward symptoms. For example, measles is transmitted several days prior any clinical signs. That's one of the reasons outbreaks can be hard to contain.