safe immunization schedule

[Guest guest]

For the same audience, perhaps, not sure about breastfeeding? and

many others, I would like to pass on well written info again from Dr.

Mercola's news and others, which is probably preaching to the choir

for most of you. Perhaps it will help spread ready resources. Full

piece at

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/12/29/vaccination-schedu\

le-part-one.aspx

(copy/paste). Excerpts below.

 

With gratitude to those focused on this key issue for health. Ysha

 

" The conventional schedule

Before a child reaches the age of two, he or she will have received 32

vaccinations on this schedule, including four doses each of vaccines

for Hemophilus influenzae type b infections, diphtheria, tetanus and

pertussis -- all of them given during the first 12 months of life.

Seven vaccines injected into a 13-pound, two-month old infant are

equivalent to 70 doses in a 130-pound adult.

 

Fifty years ago, when the immunization schedule contained only four

vaccines (for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and smallpox), autism was

virtually unknown. First discovered in 1943, this most devastating

malady, in what is now a spectrum of pervasive developmental

disorders, afflicted less than 1 in 10,000 children.

 

Today, one in every 68 American families has an autistic child. Other,

less severe developmental disorders, rarely seen before the vaccine

era, have also reached epidemic proportions. Four million American

children have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). One in

six American children are now classified as " Learning Disabled. "

 

Devising a Sensible Vaccination Plan for Your Child

 

Your brain has its own specialized immune system, separate from that

of the rest of your body. When you are vaccinated, specialized immune

cells in your brain, the microglia, become activated.

 

Multiple vaccinations spaced close together over-stimulate the

microglia, causing them to release a variety of toxic elements --

cytokines, chemokines, excitotoxins, proteases, complement, free

radicals -- that damage brain cells and their synaptic connections.

(The damage caused by these toxic substances is sometimes referred to

as " bystander injury. " )

 

In humans, the most rapid period of brain development begins in the

third trimester and continues over the first two years. (By then,

brain development is 80 percent complete.)

 

From a risk-benefit perspective, there is little doubt that the risk

of neurological and autoimmune diseases from vaccinations at this

stage far outweigh the benefits of avoiding the childhood infections

that they (supposedly) prevent. (One exception is the hepatitis B

vaccine, IF the mother tests positive for hepatitis B.)

 

As a more sensible, " user-friendly " vaccination schedule, Dr. Miller

advises the following:

 

1. No vaccinations until your child is two years old.

2. No vaccines that contain thimerosal (mercury).

3. No live virus vaccines.

4. The following vaccines can be given one at a time (not as

a combination vaccine), every six months, beginning at age 2:

* Pertussis (acellular, not whole cell)

* Diphtheria

* Tetanus

* Polio (the Salk vaccine, cultured in human cells)

 

And that would be pretty much it as far as vaccinations. Your

pediatrician will not like this schedule, but if you have reviewed the

evidence and still feel your child should be inoculated to a certain

degree, this is a far safer alternative to the standard vaccination

schedule. "