Infant immunizations necessary for baby’s safety
Marion County Medical Center
Special to the Star & Enterprise
Published: May 1, 2009
Whether you are a new or seasoned parent, you worry about your baby’s safety. You use car seats, baby-proofing and other ways to keep your child safe, but one of the most important ways to protect your child is to make sure they have all their vaccinations. National Infant Immunization Week, April 25-May 2, serves as a call to action for parents, caregivers and healthcare providers to emphasize the importance of protecting young children from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Very young children do not have fully mature immune systems, making them more vulnerable to contracting serious diseases. Vaccines contain a weak amount of virus or bacteria, which triggers the body’s immune system to create antibodies, giving the infant the ability to fight the virus or bacteria.
By the time they reach two years old, a child should receive vaccinations to protect him or her from up to many different diseases including influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, and meningitis.
For immunization to be effective the child must receive vaccines before he or she comes into contact with the disease. It is important not to skip or delay vaccines because doing so leaves your child vulnerable to disease for a longer period of time.
Vaccines have reduced or completely eliminated diseases that have historically killed or severely disabled thousands of children. However, because most of today’s parents have never seen the devastating effects of these diseases, they assume there is no need for immunization or do not consider immunization a priority.
Infants may receive their first vaccine soon after birth. Begin discussing your infant’s immunization schedule with your pediatrician during a prenatal care visit and after your child’s birth. In observance of National Infant Immunization Week, Marion Regional Healthcare System encourages you to schedule your baby’s vaccination appointment by calling 843-431-2000.
This column is provided by the doctors and staff of Marion Regional Healthcare System.
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As we watch the incidence of autism continue to rise, we must be willing to stop and look at what may be the causes. To say that it is genetic is untrue, it is impossible to have a genetic epidemic. The gene pool does not change that fast. To say it is better diagnosis is also not possible. If that was the case, where are all the undiagnosed adults 30 – 50 years old? Most people suffering with autism do not die, so where are the thousands who would have been miss-diagnosed? Like many physicians, I believe that the #1 cause is the current vaccine program. The environmental toxins do contribute as well. The Institute of Medicine did a study in California with Mark Blaxil 7-2001, showing that as the number of vaccines increased, so did the autism. They then continue to say that vaccines and thimerosal are not related to autism! Many parents and doctors know different. Dr. Richards, it is time to take a close look at what is going on around the country!
Because we are now able to help children who “suffer” with autism, we can pretty much state that we know what causes it! When these children are carefully examined, we find that there are some physiological commonalities among those with autism, ADHD, learning problems, allergies and seizure disorders. When those issues are address and the children show remarkable improvement, we prove that autism is not genetic. We do acknowledge that there may be a genetic sensitivity that can lead to severe reactions when exposed to the toxins in the environment and vaccines. Most medical doctors refuse to acknowledge recovery is possible because of the following reasons:
•When children get vaccinated and then regress into autism, we then address the injury and they recover, it proves causation. The doctor would have to be willing to see the vaccine connection, guilty as accessories to the problem.
•The protocols that are helping these children recover are 99% non-pharmaceutical, therefore, there is no financial incentive for the MD.
•Most medical doctors education focuses on prescription and drug therapies. They have limited training in nutrition. Most of the methods used in recovery are natural; minerals, vitamins, herbs that detox and rebuild the body, diet, nutrition, hyperbaric therapy,chelation and much more.
For that reason, I formed the American Chiropractic Autism Board and we have a training program for chiropractors called, Hope for Autism. This program will train chiropractors around the US who will lead the autism recovery in this country. These children can improve and many will recover sufficiently and lose the autism diagnosis. We are also training the parents on how to find a qualified doctor, understand the tests, nutrition and much more. For those who say it cannot be done, step out of the way for those who are doing it! A conference is scheduled for May 15-17, 2009. For more information see www.HopeForAutism.US
Dear Dr. Roberts, Some very frightening facts for you to consider: In a new book by one of your colleagues, Dr. Sears talks about the aluminum levels in the vaccines. He states the following: FDA safety level of aluminum exposure for an infant or baby is 20 micrograms. The hepatitis B vaccine given to babies before leaving the hospital contains 225 micrograms of aluminum and at the first “well-baby visit” the baby will get approximately 1,875 plus micrograms of aluminum! Here is a quote from his book,
“This is disgraceful and dangerous. My instinct was to assume that the issue had been properly researched, and that the studies had been done on healthy infants to determine their ability to rapidly excrete aluminum. No studies have been done!”
He, like most MD’s, assumed the safety studies were done! Sound safe to you? Aluminum when mixed with other toxic chemicals/metals is even worse. Consider some other ingredients:
Phenol (poison)
Formaldehyde (cancer causing)
Alum (preservative)
Acetone (nail polish remover)
Aluminum Phosphate (toxic, deodorants)
Glycerin (toxic liver, kidney, lung damage)
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG allergic)
Lead
Cadmium
To say that the thimerosal used in vaccines is safe is so unscientific. Here are some references about thimerosal that the CDC, FDA and EPA seem to completely ignore.
•Department of Defense during WW2 said Eli Lilly must label it “Poison”
•1971 Eli Lilly’s own study discerned that it was “Toxic to tissue cells” in concentrations as low as one part per million
•100 times weaker than in typical vaccine given to babies last 20 years
•1977 – 10 babies died when dabbed on umbilical cord in Toronto, Canada
•Added to baby vaccines in 1931 and first cases of autism were in 1931
•Russia banned Thimerosal in vaccines 20 years ago and Denmark, Australia, Japan, Great Brittan, all Scandinavian countries followed suit.
•When it is applied to living tissue, the tissue dies
•1948 – Blue Ribbon Panel recommend it removed form all human products, Eli Lilly stalled this for 10 years and then amazingly it was completely forgotten about until the Congressional Hearings 2000. Then levels were 40-60 times the safety level.
•1956 – CDC received reports on the toxicity of Thimerosal
In medical school you are taught a theory as fact then without question, you ignore the obvious when your patients start to tell you what they have observed in their children. You are so dedicated to the “Sacred Cow” that you are blinded to the truth. The vaccines are pushed by savvy pharmaceutical reps who basically tell you what they want you to know and because you trust them, you recommend them…often without even knowing what is in the vaccine. You are like a bunch of robots.
American parents are waking up by the thousands. We do no longer trust the almighty pediatrician with our children’s healthcare. We see that they are not really delivering health but making our children sick through the vaccine program. The American Academy of Pediatrics reported that within a 12- month period, 85% of pediatricians report encountering a parent who refused or delayed one or more vaccines and 54% reported encountering a parent who refused vaccines. It is just a matter of time when all pediatricians will have to acknowledge that there are parents who just do not believe that injecting toxic shots is the answer to infectious illnesses. For those who want more research like this, visit www.childhoodshots.com
Dr. what kind of incompatant would give a vaccine containing 12.5 micro-grams of mercury, at birth. When the only way to catch Hep-B, is sexual
transmission or intravenous drug use. Other than the mother of the newborn
being Hep-B positive, that rules out about 99.9999% of the expectant populace Dr.Roberts It’s a useless vaccine for newborns, but it makes a lot of money for the ped’s and hospitals and vaccine manuf. Greed rules so many in mainstream medicine.
Dr. Roberts please explain if you can
why you and the CDC and the AAP would allow a pregnant woman to get a Flu shot containing Thimerosal? When the manufacturer of Thimerosal says on their MSDS that pregnant women should never be exposed to Thimerosal for it can cross the placenta goe into the baby and (get ready for this Doc.)cause Mild to severe mental retardation. Hmm!could they be meaning ADD, ADHD, SPEECHDELAY, BIPOLAR, ANOREXIA,or the biggie Doc.
Severe AUTISM!
after all Doc.that is what the good
Dr.Verstreaten found in his earlier work, where he found a link and then like magic poof the earlier work where he had found a link, was destroyed out of the vaccine data link.
By my research that I have done on behalf my son, whom was very vaccine damaged. I find that Moe, Curly, and Larry, (You know Doc. THE THREE STOOGES)could have done as good a job if not better than the CDC and the AAP on vaccine safety.
But doc. I also find that organised crime, and terrorist could not have poisoned a generation of American children with any more better efficiency and cold heartedness than that of the CDC and the AAP Ped’s.
Also Doc. it is on the MSDS under reactivity data not to mix Thimerosal and aluminum, for the two react violently together. Doc. did you know that aluminum is in children’s vaccines as a catalyst? Now Dr.what is something that reacts violently togather doing in a childs vaccine?
Since your so GUNG HO on vaccines, I thought you might want to answer these questions. Dr. Roberts you have said that children’s vaccines are safe. When I am through presenting the FACTS you will be lucky if anybody listens to you ever again on the subject of vaccines safety. For it is very clear by what you have written, you Dr. do not have a clue, on this subject which you have chosen to write about!
one last one I just thought of, If children 6 mos to 2 yr’s get only
a placebo effect from the inactivated
Flu vaccine. why is the ped’s pushing
this on the children?I will answer this one for you doc. I know it makes them more MONEY!
This was a reply written to another article, but it will work here just fine. Because it looks like you Dr. Mark Roberts just signed your name to a CDC or AAP written letter and called it your article.
Imagine Dr.s and those in main stream If we parents were to demand, you in the medical field stop using the purple non allergenic gloves because of a cost factor. And go back to the Latex gloves, that was endangering those in the medical profession. Your words would be something like this, some who have allergies to latex could get sick and could even die of being allergic to the latex. Can’t you see it’s the same argument! We do not no who is allergic to the ingredients of vaccines, and who is not. So here’s where common sense comes into play, and you ere on the the side of caution. You don’t give 9 vaccines on one day, 7 of which contain the mercury and learn that amount of mercury equals 32,500 ppb, especially when 200 ppb is considered liquid toxic waste, by the EPA. And then conclude that amount could not possibly hurt a child. Especially when we seem to have a subset of children that cannot process heavy metals,for example my sons glutathione level is so low he cannot stop making testosterone, And he was roid raging, before finding out he had three times the level of a normal child of testosterone.
We put him on lupron, and now he is not near as aggressive. Before he would literally get in your face and growel like an animal. So according to some posting here, I should just let him be his self.
But according to a Yale study on high testosterone
I would be allowing his brain to just disintegrate.
“A Yale School of Medicine study shows for the first time that a high level of testosterone, such as that caused by the use of steroids to increase muscle mass or for replacement therapy, can lead
to a catastrophic loss of brain cells”
The lead author was in shock when I told her mercury and aluminum was in children’s vaccines.
Dr. do you know why she was shocked about the heavy metal content ? It’s because Ethyl-mercury by it’s self causes apoptosis AKA neuron cell death, but when you mix aluminum to it you turn a toxin into a super toxin with the synergy effect of the two salts mixed, that is multiplied x 10 lead and mercury 1000 x Mercury aluminum and lead? maybe severe AUTISM. I mentioned lead because we are finding that the children that start chewing after vaccines,appear to have the worse cases of Autism. And we now know why, toys chewed flat that come from china containing huge amounts of lead.
Dr. I will bet you did not know that the MSDS of THIMEROSAL states under reactivity data that aluminum and their product should not come into contact, because of the oxidative property’s, another words as many studies have shown our children are suffering from oxidative stress. So what they at the CDC have done by accident with out even knowing it, is to set up the perfect storm for children that were susceptible. And then they wonder why we are saying that our children are suffering from the symptom’s of what the msds of Thimerosal says is possible,(mercury poisoning)!
I called the dept. of health in charge of vaccines for CT. We was about to have what I thought was going to be an intellagent conservation on
vaccines until that stupid statement came out of her mouth. She asked do I know the difference between methyl-alcohol and ethyl-alcohol. that’s when I knew she did not know anything about this issue.
I am so angry that the very people I thought was telling me the truth about the safety vaccines, were in fact no more intelligent than the scarecrow from OZ that was going around singing I wish I had a brain, I wish I had a brain. And it seems to me that the CDC and mainstream health authority’s are suffering from a lack of all three, a brain a heart and courage.
Imagine Dr. and those in main stream If we parents were to demand, you in the medical field stop using the purple non allergenic gloves because of a cost factor. And go back to the Latex gloves, that was endangering those in the medical profession. Your words would be something like this, some who have allergies to latex could get sick and could even die of being allergic to the latex. Can’t you see it’s the same argument! We do not no who is allergic to the ingredients of vaccines, and who is not. So here’s where common sense comes into play, and you ere on the the side of caution. You don’t give 9 vaccines on one day, 7 of which contain the mercury and learn that amount of mercury equals 32,500 ppb, especially when 200 ppb is considered liquid toxic waste, by the EPA. And then conclude that amount could not possibly hurt a child. Especially when we seem to have a subset of children that cannot process heavy metals,for example my sons glutathione level is so low he cannot stop making testosterone, And he was roid raging, before finding out he had three times the level of a normal child of testosterone.
We put him on lupron, and now he is not near as aggressive. Before he would literally get in your face and growel like an animal. So according to some posting here, I should just let him be his self.
But according to a Yale study on high testosterone
I would be allowing his brain to just disintegrate.
“A Yale School of Medicine study shows for the first time that a high level of testosterone, such as that caused by the use of steroids to increase muscle mass or for replacement therapy, can lead
to a catastrophic loss of brain cells”
The lead author was in shock when I told her mercury and aluminum was in children’s vaccines.
“Spiel” do you know why she was shocked about the heavy metal content ? It’s because Ethyl-mercury by it’s self causes apoptosis AKA neuron cell death, but when you mix aluminum to it you turn a toxin into a super toxin with the synergy effect of the two salts mixed, that is multiplied x 10 lead and mercury 1000 x Mercury aluminum and lead? maybe severe AUTISM. I mentioned lead because we are finding that the children that start chewing after vaccines,appear to have the worse cases of Autism. And we now know why, toys chewed flat that come from china containing huge amounts of lead. “Spiel” I will bet you did not know that the MSDS of THIMEROSAL states under reactivity data that aluminum and their product should not come into contact, because of the oxidative property’s, another words as many studies have shown our children are suffering from oxidative stress. So what they at the CDC have done by accident with out even knowing it, is to set up the perfect storm for children that were susceptible. And then they wonder why we are saying that our children are suffering from the symptom’s of what the msds of Thimerosal says is possible,(mercury poisoning)!
I called the dept. of health in charge of vaccines for CT. We was about to have what I thought was going to be an intellagent conservation on
vaccines until that stupid statement came out of her mouth. She asked do I know the difference between methyl-alcohol and ethyl-alcohol. that’s when I knew she did not know anything about this issue.
I am so angry that the very people I thought was telling me the truth about the safety vaccines, were in fact no more intelligent than the scarecrow from OZ that was going around singing I wish I had a brain, I wish I had a brain. And it seems to me that the CDC and mainstream health authority’s are suffering from a lack of all three, a brain a heart and courage.
I read the opinion piece by Dr. Mark Roberts defending vaccines. We need to remember that just because someone can say that vaccines save lives doesn’t eliminate the possibility of devastating side effects. There are a number of things that Roberts doesn’t mention.
He didn’t tell tell us about how dramatically the vaccine schedule has increased. This ad ran in USA Today on Feb 12 and 29: Green our vaccines and administer them with greater care. http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/080212.pdf . It shows what’s happened to the vaccine schedule since 1983 and it lists the toxic ingredients like mercury, aluminum, and MSG commonly found in vaccines. Children receive three times as many vaccines as they did 25 years ago. It’s important to note that there has never been a study done on the cumulative effect of so many vaccines so soon on the health of a baby.
The soaring increase in autism directly coincided with the dramatic escalation in the number of vaccines. Autism went from one in 10,000 children in the 1970s to one in every 150 children today, including one in every 94 boys. (The truth is we don’t really know the current autism rate. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention release the one in 150 rate in Feb, 2007, but it was based on studies done on eight year olds back in 2000 and 2002.)
Recently, Cambridge University in Britain updated their autism numbers. Researchers now believe as many as one in every 60 children has some form of the condition. That translates into one in every 38 boys in the U.K. Many people think that if our numbers were updated, they’d be comparable.
(SEE One child in 60 ‘suffers from a form of autism http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163606/One-child-60-suffers-form-autism.html)
Anne Dachel
Media editor: AGE OF AUTISM
http://www.rescuepost.com/age_of_autism/
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