Re: ear problems/more vacines/jerks Digest Number 10478

[Guest guest]

This is nuts IMO, my kid had bad ears, three sets of tubes, two cholesteatoma. I

have read research that says vaccines were a contributing factor. And now they

want to give another vaccine to help get over the other vaccines that damaged

them?

Gessh. Is there no end?

Alison F.

14. Vaccine for what could be a vaccine induced condition.

Posted by: " Jagannath Chatterjee " jagchat01@... jagchat01

Date: Sun Apr 8, 2007 8:51 am ((PDT))

PCV7 vaccine reduces frequent ear infections in children Child Health

News Published: Monday, 2-Apr-2007

A vaccine has been shown to help reduce the number of

infants

and toddlers developing frequent ear infections, according to new research from

A. Poehling, M.D., a pediatrician at Brenner Children's Hospital,

part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Results from her study

are published in the April issue of Pediatrics.

" This is exciting news for parents whose children suffer from frequent and

painful ear infections, " she said.

Poehling and a team of researchers followed about 27,000 children in New York

and 150,000 children in Tennessee from birth to two years old who were born

after

the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) was licensed. The vaccine was approved

to help protect children from potentially deadly strains of meningitis and other

pneumococcal diseases such as ear infections.

Poehling found that, during the time that vaccine coverage increased, the

number

of vaccinated children who developed frequent ear infections and/or received ear

tubes declined by 16 percent in Tennessee and 25 percent in New York.

" This vaccine has benefited both children and adults since being introduced

into the vaccination schedule, " Poehling said. " We have seen declines

in the incidence of serious infections such as pneumococcal meningitis in both

children

and adults, as well as the number of children developing frequent ear

infections. "

The PCV7 vaccine was licensed by the FDA in 2000. The Centers for Disease

Control

and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended

the vaccine be part of the routine vaccination schedule the same year. Children

receive four doses of the vaccine: at age two months, four months, six months

and

again at about 12 to 15 months, Poehling said.

Ear infections are one of the most common infections in children. Before the

vaccine

was introduced into the vaccination schedule, about one-third of ear infections

were caused by the pneumococcal bacteria.

" While most children have at least one ear infection by their second birthday,

25 to 30 percent of children will develop frequent ear infections, or about

three

or four each year, " Poehling said.

Many of these children, about one of every 15 to 25 children -- will end up

with

ear tubes by the age of two, she said.

" Although these results are very exciting, we need to carefully monitor the

trends in ear infections because pnuemococcal strains not included in the

vaccine

may increase and potentially diminish these gains, " she said.

The PCV7 vaccine only protects against seven virulent strains of pneumococcal

bacteria from 90 known strains.

http://www.wfubmc.edu

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