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Originally Posted by LadyMischief
And what if your child is suffering from something just as bad if not worse because the vaccine that was given out like candy turned out 10 years later to be the cause of something even worse? Guilt is NOT a good reason to get children vaccinated. Wonder how the people who were cripped or had family die from Guillam Barre after their Swine Flu Vaccination felt. Did they feel guilty? It's never a black and white thing, but NOT having children vaccinated is a decision that ultimately falls to the parents, just as having vaccinations is. In either case, one must weigh the pros and cons and decide what they feel is best for their child.
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33 years ago (in medicine, that's huge), a vaccine that was most likely contaminated because it was prepared in way that we don't use anymore, 25 people died. Plus, even for that specific vaccine, the risk it had of causing GBS was still only half that of the risk a normal flu has of causing GBS.
With contemporary flu vaccines, the vaccine has about 2% of the risk of causing GBS as the flu itself does - not to mention the fact that the flu also has a rather large chance of causing plan, simple death.
Meanwhile, in the past 100 years, vaccines have saved the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
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Originally Posted by LadyMischief
Personally, I've always found that our bodies are miraculous things, and they will most oftentimes fix themselves.. The more crap we pour down our throats or have poked into our veins doesn't really win us any ground, because every time we "defeat" one illness, five more crop on it it's place. Superbugs are a good example of this... they were created by the very thing that was meant to help... .antibiotics... an OVERUSE of antibiotics, generally because parents who's kid have a little sniffle can't let mother nature run it's course, but demand their doctors fix things, and the doctors comply even when they know it's not neccessary so they feel they've done their jobs. In our "instant gratification" society, people place too much importance on the quick fix instead of allowing things to take their own course. Who suffers for this? EVERYONE, because now those superbugs are out there, and both the morons who don't know the difference between a bacteria and a virus (antibiotics are USELESS against viruses, but that's what most cold and flus are), and the people who chose differently are now exposed to these things. When my kids get sick, unless they are REALLY sick and can't get better on their own, I care for them through it, but I let them fight it off. Why? Because it's GOOD for their immune systems, it helps prevent MORE illnesses in the future, and my kids rarely if ever get sick for more than a day anymore, while half of their classmates are home every other week because they have no immune system and are flooded with antibiotics. It's a ridiculous, vicious circle I choose not to feed into.
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While overuse of antibiotics is most certainly a bad thing, they definitely have helped us win ground against "mother nature". See the examples I mentioned in my post above.