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First...even though you're not intending to start an arguement, brace yourself. This becomes a touchy subject for people from both camps.
Second...I voted yes. People are not usually surprised to hear I am pro-vaccination when they find out that I am a nurse. However, people are usually surprised that I am pro-vaccination when they find out that I am the mother of a child with autism.
Yes. I have an autistic child, but that myth was debunked a long time ago. I'll be vaccinating this baby as well. Even if it was true, I'd rather have an autistic child than a dead child. Disease is preventable, and IMHO to leave your child unprotected or rely on herd immunity is just flat our irresponsible.
i am provaccination I never really thought about it to much my doctor always just told me when they needed it and I trust her judgement
While I don't have kids. When I do, they will be vaccinated.
I voted no..but I should of voted other... I choose wich vaccinations I gave my child.. he did not get all of them..but did get some... I feel 100% in my decisions.. have no regrets.. to each their own... and .. probably wont even come back to this thread because I know theres going to be reaming and bashing both ways...lol
i don't have kids yet, but absolutley intend to vaccinate them. how horrible would it be to have your child die from something like small pox, which was essentially cured by the vaccine decades ago? i couldn't live with myself. there are no proven ties to autism, as @KatyElle stated. relying on other parents to vaccinate their kids to keep yours healthy is nonsense, too.
@Dandelion D: Lol, I kind of figured it would get a bit heated, just hoping there is not any flame throwing!
I come from a medical family also (both grandparents were doctors, 1 aunt a doctor, one a nurse practitioner, 2 cousins in nursing, my mom worked in health care administration, and one of my closest friends is an LPN) and I firmly believe in it.
I can't imagine the guilt I would feel if my child was to get sick from something that a vaccine could have prevented. I don't thtnk I could live with myself after. Though, maybe if there was an issue once they got a vaccine, I'd feel the same convition against vaccines, but I just don't personally feel the risks outweigh the benefit. And with more people choosing NOT to vacinate, I fear there is going to be a lot more outbreaks of once controlled diseases. We have had 2 isolated cases of measles in our public school system already this school year.
That said, we as a family did not get our flu or H1N1 shots this year because I heard so many people getting sick right after receiving it (not the respiratory flu, just fever, the runs, nausea, fatigue etc) so we opted out. Touch wood, only my step son has been sick, and it was a head cold and one bout of a tummy bug.
@Take The Reins: Not only the safety of your own children, but the safety of other children. The guilt that I could prevent some other children who cannot be vaccinized (due to age or severe allergic reaction) but didn't would eat at me.
@beekiss: Very true. I have an issue with guit anyway so it would definitely be a long term negative for me too!
I do not have kids, but when I do they will definiately be getting their shots.
That being said, I am on the fence about the flu shot, I have gotten it, and STILL have gotten the flu, sometimes the next day!
@KatyElle: I agree with you 100%! Although that theory has been debunked, I live in a small country town and people still insist that there is a link. Even if there were a direct link, like you said...I, too, would rather have a child with autism than a dead child!
I'm nowhere near close to having kids, but when I do they will be vaccinated. My mom had me vaccinated and I turned out fine.
I don’t have children but when I do, they will be fully vaccinated. I feel that the risks associate with vaccinating are far less than those associated with not vaccinating. I also think it’s very irresponsible of parents to allow their non-vaccinated children to associate with other kids. Up until recently I was under the impression that non-vaccinated kids were not allowed to be in public school but apparently there are ways around that. Its one thing if you want to risk your kids health but you shouldn’t be able to jeopardize someone else’s child.
@imalittlebirdie: If you get the flu vaccine, the virus is dead and it takes a peroid of time before the immunity builds up. By the time you feel the symptoms of the flu, you've been carrying it around for several days so comng down with flu symptoms within a couple of days is purly coincidental. Also, each year the flu vaccine is created using the strand(s) of the flu that are predicted to be prevalent for the upcoming flu season. Predictions are not always accurate.
Not saying that you didn't get the flu, but in general it's good to remember that a lot of people assume they have the flu when they become sick during flu season. The real, true flu is diagnosed by a nasal swab and is temporarily somewhat debilitating even in mild form (and deadly in more severe cases). It's way, way, way worse than bronchitis/upper respiratory infection/colds.
Idk too much about vaccinating young children. I got all of my childhood vaccinations and turned out fine.
HOWEVER - I just wanted to put this out there. I am pretty against getting any of the vaccines that are not required. When I was 13 my mother had me get the Hepatitus (sp?) B vaccine, despite that I was at a super low risk of contracting it (you get hep B primarily from having unprotected sex and sharing needles from drug use - I am super religious and never planned/didn't have sex until marriage and have also never done drugs (except alcohol in college) and my mom knew I was that type of person this so i don't understand why she thought I should get it...buy anyways, I digress...). So I got the Hep B vaccine, finished the series, and almost immediately came down with Type 1 diabetes. While the diabetes may not have been a result of the vaccine, and it does run in my family, Type 1 is an autoimmune response that often results after some sort of illness. I wasn't sick in at least the 6 months leading up to my contracting the diabetes, so I am fairly sure it was a result of the vaccination.
Just some food for thought.
All of my children will be fully vaccinated on schedule. It protects not only them but the people around them who can't get vaccinated (too young to get them yet, immune disorders, allergies to a vaccine, etc). Herd immunity is hugely important at keeping these disease at bay. Look at what is happening now with Whooping Cough. IMO, the pros hugely outweigh the cons.
Immunology/Virology/Epidemiology and the spread of diseases is actually a huge interest of mine (if I didn't want to be a SAHM, I'd probably go back to and get a masters in one of them or a more general Masters in Public Health).
What concerns me the most (and I don't think it was intentional, OP, so not picking on you!) is that people still ask/say that they do/don't "believe" in vaccinating.
Belief has nothing to do with it. There are studies and real facts out there. Educate yourself and make an informed decision. Going into the health care field, I have seen and heard of too many instances where belief or non-belief in a health care measure has resulted in disastrous consequences. If, after educating yourself, you have a GOOD reason backed up by RESULTS, fine. But don't let your gut rule you on stuff like this.
And, to stay on topic, I answered the poll yes, any future children will be 100% vaccinated. However, I will be careful to watch the timing of the vaccines and make sure only required and heavily reccomended ones are given. Anecdotal as it may be, a friend of mine received a large number of vaccines in close succession, and now her immunologist thinks that her allergy and other health problems problems (VERY severe - pick something, she's allegic!) were possibly caused by this (something like her immune system went into overdrive and just never quite balanced out again).
Hell. Yes. I will be vaccinating.
@lisaelanna: The destruction of islet cells in the pancreas can occur over an extended period of time; it doesn't always occur all at once. Also, the Hep B vaccine is made from specific proteins that occur on the virus's outer coating (and they don't take them directly from a virus; they grow them on yeast microorganisms), and the process through which your body forms antibodies to these proteins (thus protecting you from infection with the actual virus) is the exact same as if you were to become infected with something like, say, chicken pox (the varicella virus). The vaccine doesn't make you "sick", so it wouldn't cause autoimmune destruction of your pancreatic islet cells. Also, if you had a family history of diabetes, it's likely that that lead to you developing it. Also, if you plan on going to Mexico/the Caribbean/etc. for your honeymoon, they recommend that you be immunized against Hep B, because you can get it from everything from contaminated spa tools to a piece of glass on the beach that someone else has stepped on.
We have friends who dont vaccinate their children and they get "weird" sicknesses all the time (e.g. they just got over Scarlet Fever). Seeing what their kids have gone through I am pretty sure we will vacinate our kids when we have them..
@lisaelanna: I had never heard of that connection. Very interesting. Hep B vaccines was required at my school and if you didn't have it the nurse administered it. A lot of jobs have asked me if I have the vaccine so it's been worth it to have it.
I will vaccinate my kids because I think it's worth protecting them against these preventable illnesses. I won't be opting for varicella (hoping that's still optional) or HPV. I also don't get flu vaccines myself. I'm still not comfortable with newer vaccines.
I have heard of mothers not taking their kids to doctors who have patients that aren't vaccinated because of the risk in the waiting room! I think every child deserves to be vaccinated. How selfish for parents to choose otherwise.
We plan on vaccinating, but likely on a modified schedule. I want to wait until she is at least a few months old to give her any, and then would like to space them out. We likely won't vaccinate for chicken pox, Hep B, the yearly flu or H1N1 type or HPV.
I will say that my Mom chose not to vaccinate my siblings and I. We were perfectly healthy children and I know that herd immunity played a big role in the fact that we didn't get sick with a virus that we weren't vaccinated against. Although I don't see the point in me being vaccinated now, I would if we were going to be travelling to an area where vaccines weren't as prevelent and I was more likely to contract something. And, for reference, I attended public school my whole life, and lived in a dorm in college. My Mom has such strong convictions against vaccines that she claimed religious expemption in order for us to be able to attend school.
I have never been vaccinated, not a single prick my whole entire life. Neither are my two brothers, and we're the healthiest people I know. We are NEVER sick. Ever. I believe strongly in not vaccinating my future kids. FI is a future DO and he does believe in vaccinating...but I'm going to stand firm in my beliefs. Should make for an interesting future.
FYI my dad is a chiropractor and researched a great deal with my mom on this decision before I was ever born. Another big deciding factor that sealed the deal was watching a close family's daughter born 100% healthy, only to react horrendously from the normal newborn vaccinations. She is 16 years old, can't walk, can't talk, can't eat, can't even go to the bathroom on her own. She is blind and weighs 60lbs. The poor girl is trapped inside her own body. Needless to say, that family's three other children were not vaccinated.
The last time this topic came up I got flamed as well as many others. So I'm sure that's why most of us, with opposing opinions, have stayed away from the topic.
Yes, my kids will be vaccinated. My Uncle (father's brother) was little when polio struck and he was sent away to a containment ward with other kids that had the disease. It was hours away from home. My grandparents would have to travel to see him when they were allowed to. He was little and scared. My grandparents were scared because they weren't given the choice to have him stay. They also had two other young children (my uncle and my father) to think about. His things were burned for fear others would contract the virus. He was allowed to come home months later. One day he was a normal kid running around the next day he woke up with flu like symptoms and couldn't move his legs. He is now 73 and walks with crutches.
I know that this wasn't something that they could have vaccinated against before, but seeing him and the struggle that it was for him and his family, if I can stop something before it happens, I plan on it.
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I am not intending to start an argument over why you should or shouldn't, just curious how many people opt out, and their reasons for it.
I am in the yes camp.