Case against vaccines: Exposure to natural environment/germs good for immunity.

[Guest guest]

THIS NVIC MAIL RAISES A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION BESIDES THE

APPARENT ONE. ARE ALL DISEASES HARMFUL? DO ALL DISEASES GO AGAINST

THE BODY? PERHAPS NOT. MANY DISEASES ARE THE BODY'S ATTEMPTS

TO REALIGN, ADJUST TO A CHANGING PHASE OF GROWING UP, OR AN

ATTEMPT TO THROW OUT ACCUMULATED TOXINS. ARE ALL DISEASES DUE

TO VIRUSES? THE SEARCH FOR VIRUSES IN LIFESTYLE INDUCED DISEASES

PUT A QUESTION MARK ON THE VIRUS THEORY. ARE VIRUSES PRESENT

FOR REASONS OTHER THAN CAUSING DISEASE? WHAT IS THE REAL ROLE

OF VIRUSES? ARE ALL VIRUSES HARMFUL?

AND AGAIN, WE HAVE VACCINE INDUCED DISEASES WHICH THE SYSTEM

REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE.

BY HAVING VACCINES AGAINST THESE VACCINE INDUCED DISEASES

WE ARE QUALIFYING FOR THE "MADDEST SPECIES ON EARTH AWARD".

 

E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER Vienna, Virginia

http://www.nvic.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UNITED

WAY/COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN #8122 * * * * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * "Protecting the health and informed consent rights of

children since 1982."

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BL Fisher Note: During the past 25 years, the Centers for Disease Control

and American Academy of Pediatrics have insisted that all American children get

vaccinated with more and more vaccines from the moment of birth throughout

childhood in order to prevent all infection, even with common, primarily

benign childhood diseases such as chickenpox and diarrhea. And during that

same time period, the number of children suffering with brain and immune

system dysfunction - ranging from learning disabilities, ADHD and autism to

asthma,

diabetes and severe allergies - has risen dramatically. Maybe it is not such

a good idea to suppress all infection in early childhood and alter the way

the developing human immune system has matured for thousands and thousands of

years. Maybe Mother Nature knows best after all.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/04/05/cohen.allergies/

 

Are germs good for children's health? By Elizabeth Cohen CNN FORT

LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- Little Madison Sukenik crawls around her Fort

Lauderdale home, grabbing everything in sight, putting much of it in her

mouth. A piece of French toast that has fallen on the floor, a ball that her

dog, Nugget, just chewed on, a shoe -- all get chomped on. So are her

parents freaked out? Running for the antibacterial mouthwash? No -- Michelle

and Mark Sukenik are more than happy to let 14-month-old Madison crawl around

the house, restaurants, even her doctor's office, and put her fingers and

other objects into her mouth. In fact, Mark is a pediatric ear, nose and

throat specialist and he says exposure to germs will build up her immunity.

Now some immunology experts are beginning to agree that germs that many parents

bleach and disinfect out of existence might help children. "Hygiene

hypothesis" holds that when babies are exposed to germs, it helps them fight

allergies and asthma later. The prevalence of allergies has increased

substantially in the past 15 years, according to the National Institute of

Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and some experts believe that too much

cleanliness might be a contributing factor. Dr. Dennis Ownby, chief of

allergy and immunology at the Medical College of Georgia, found in a study

that babies in households with multiple pets have fewer allergies at age 6 or

7 not just to animals, but also to ragweed, grass and dust mites. Ownby also

said studies of babies in day care have found that while

they have more infections early, they have fewer allergies and less wheezing

later. The Sukeniks say they know not every parent agrees with their

easygoing lifestyle. Michelle said she used to be a "germaphobe." When her

husband would come home and hug Madison wearing the scrubs he had worn all

day while treating sick kids, she said she was "mortified." She was

"grossed out" when Mark let Madison eat food right off the floor of his

office. But then she noticed that Madison wasn't getting sick. She didn't get

her first cold until she was 13 months old while the children of friends who

were meticulously clean were sick many times before their first birthday.

But Kara Sherry of Columbus, Ohio, says her kids are also rarely sick, and

she's a self-described "clean freak." She sanitizes the family's toothbrushes

by putting them either in the dishwasher or boiling water. When she goes

grocery shopping, she wipes down the edges of the

cart with antibacterial wipes before her children Sam, 3 ½, and Hayden, 5,

climb in. Her daughter Carleigh, almost 2, sits on a piece of fabric in the

front of the grocery cart that covers the handle. Kara said she never touches

the handle of a grocery cart, and would never let her children touch it

either. "Anything could be on that handle," she said. "Someone could have

gone to the bathroom and not washed their hands, someone could have a cut on

their hand. It could be staph, E. coli, it could be anything." She said she

does this out of "love and protection. I look at it as a way, as another way

I protect my kids." Ownby said studies don't show that Sherry is hurting her

children, but that anything much more than basic hygiene like hand-washing

isn't really necessary. "It would be more than what I'd be willing to do in

my own kitchen," he said.