I grew up with very few vaccines available. In fact I believe the only vaccination I got as a child was tyhpoid and tetanus. When I was 10 years old the oral polio vaccine became available and there were thousands of us in line to get it. One of my best childhood friends had contracted polio and died when we were 12.
I developed everyone of the "childhood illnesses"...mumps, red measles, german measels, chickenpox...and I can tell you that the possible side effects of a vaccine are nothing compared to the side effects of the illness. When the diseases hit it was usually epidemic and many children died from the disease.
When my daughter was born I was happy to be able to immunize her against the diseases that I experienced. She did have a reaction to the pertussis and was not immunized against it again. The chickenpox vaccine was in clinical trials when she was 5 and she did participate. She randomized to receive 2 vaccines instead of 1. She recently had a titer for varicella done and she is still fully immunized against it.
The Army has now vaccinated her against stuff that the general public is not vaccinated for, including anthrax.
I do agree with Ultasol that diagnosing syndromes is much better now and that is why you are seeing so many children diagnosed. Also, let's talk about all the crap kids are fed these days. When I grew up we ate out of a garden with no preservatives and artificial crap added to our food....and NOTHING was genetically modified.
I am a nurse and I've seen so much disease and suffering that could be prevented by eating healthy food, leaving out the crappy stuff. I would worry MUCH more about my child getting diabetes than having a reaction to a vaccine.
I developed everyone of the "childhood illnesses"...mumps, red measles, german measels, chickenpox...and I can tell you that the possible side effects of a vaccine are nothing compared to the side effects of the illness. When the diseases hit it was usually epidemic and many children died from the disease.
When my daughter was born I was happy to be able to immunize her against the diseases that I experienced. She did have a reaction to the pertussis and was not immunized against it again. The chickenpox vaccine was in clinical trials when she was 5 and she did participate. She randomized to receive 2 vaccines instead of 1. She recently had a titer for varicella done and she is still fully immunized against it.
The Army has now vaccinated her against stuff that the general public is not vaccinated for, including anthrax.
I do agree with Ultasol that diagnosing syndromes is much better now and that is why you are seeing so many children diagnosed. Also, let's talk about all the crap kids are fed these days. When I grew up we ate out of a garden with no preservatives and artificial crap added to our food....and NOTHING was genetically modified.
I am a nurse and I've seen so much disease and suffering that could be prevented by eating healthy food, leaving out the crappy stuff. I would worry MUCH more about my child getting diabetes than having a reaction to a vaccine.