Guest guest Posted September 20, 1998 Report Share Posted September 20, 1998 We have a few new people on the list and I just wanted to let you all know that if you go to www.onelist.com you will be able to read all the archived messages from the group. There are 11 digests already with our posts...wow! Though I must say that we have been very quiet lately. Anyone with questions? Anything you want to discuss? For those that have not introduced themselves, please do!! Hope to see some messages from all of you soon! List Owner SAHM to Quinlyn-2 years old and vaccine free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 1998 Report Share Posted September 21, 1998 Hello everyone, My name is a, my husband Tom and I have 3 boys ages 7, 4-1/2, 18 mos. and am due in Jan. with our 4th. We are a homeschool family, which is actually how I began looking into whether to vaccinate or not. Our first 2 children were vaccinated,why, because I worked in a Pediatricians office before I had children and saw that is what you do. Just prior to the birth of our third son a homeschool friend gave me some information to read regarding vaccines. My husband and I were convinced that we would not have our 3rd child receive the hepatitis vaccine, but still were not decided on the rest. I remember while in the hospital with him, I specific told the nurses, he was not to get the vaccine, but they gave it to him anyway. The pediatrician is see now supports my decision and said he would treat my child should he come down with any of the ailments. He did however, highly recommend the HIB vaccine and we have proceeded with that vaccine. I would appreciate others views on the HIB vaccine. Have a good day, Blessings, a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 23, 1998 Report Share Posted September 23, 1998 At 10:50 AM 9/21/98 -0400, you wrote: >From: jonesoffive@... >I would appreciate others views on the HIB vaccine. Hi a :-) We considered Hib for our son in the beginning; but after reading up on it, I honestly felt that it wasn't necessary. Nap time is coming to an end so I will try to re-type what I found in some of my books re: Hib vaccine----- from 'Vaccinations: The Issue of Our Times::: Greatest number of cases in 87' - 12,000 Greatest num of cases in 93'-17 ....statistically, it doesn't seem threatning IMO " Twor recent studies have concluded that HIB does not seem to spread from child to child as readily as doctors suspected. (new england journal of medicine) Earlier studies indicated that the infant brothers or sisters of a child with meningitis are up to 400 times more likely to contract this illness; however one of the more recent studies showed that only one child out of 587 who had regular contact with an infected toddler went on to develop the illness. ....Vaccine failure is also being investigated. Work is under way to determine why it is that some children who receive the preparation go on to develop meningitis (new england journal of medicine 315, 18 Dec 1986........In Minnesota for example, vaccinated children were more likely than nonvaccinated children to becom infected with Hib; those who became infected were 86% more likely than controls to have been vaccinated. (Science News 132, 24 Oct.87') " development of a new vaccine: a conjugate vaccine, unlike the original preparation that is made from a polysaccharide fragment of the vaccine.....researches are hoping this will prove effective in children as young as 6mo of age. However, conjugate vaccines also have potential problems. One is that they have been pretested in Finland and not in this country. Another is that they have a " window of increased susceptibility " to Hib infection during the first seven days after inoculation. Granoff and others claim this is due to the vaccine's action of temporarily " binding up the body's naturally occurring Hib antibodies " .....that's all for now. My little guy is waking up; but I also have a book by Neautsdater that goes into further detail....I'll try and get back to ya asap. Peace Lana mama of Cody ukiah (8/15/97) >Hello everyone, > >My name is a, my husband Tom and I have 3 boys ages 7, 4-1/2, 18 mos. >and am due in Jan. with our 4th. We are a homeschool family, which is >actually how I began looking into whether to vaccinate or not. > >Our first 2 children were vaccinated,why, because I worked in a >Pediatricians office before I had children and saw that is what you do. >Just prior to the birth of our third son a homeschool friend gave me some >information to read regarding vaccines. My husband and I were convinced >that we would not have our 3rd child receive the hepatitis vaccine, but >still were not decided on the rest. I remember while in the hospital >with him, I specific told the nurses, he was not to get the vaccine, but >they gave it to him anyway. > >The pediatrician is see now supports my decision and said he would treat >my child should he come down with any of the ailments. He did however, >highly recommend the HIB vaccine and we have proceeded with that vaccine. > > >I would appreciate others views on the HIB vaccine. > >Have a good day, > >Blessings, > >a > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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