Sunday, July 22, 2012

The first of many....

Hepatitis B is the first vaccine you baby gets. It is usually at birth before the doctor hands you new born over to you. If not it is done then it is done before the child is discharged from the hospital. When looking up when your child should get the Hep B vaccine the CDC recommends the 1st dose at birth, the 2nd dose is at 1-2 months, and the 3rd dose 6-18 months.

What is Hepatitis B? Well it is a infection that affects the liver usually with swelling it can be spread by sharing bodily fluids with someone who is infected. Including seman, blood, and other bodily fluid.

Due to the way you get Hepatitis B the vaccine was made for drug users, people with lots of sexual partners, workers in the medical field, and babies whose moms tested positive for the infection. Mary Tocco, a chiropractor’s wife and researcher, states in her Are Vaccines Safe? video that when the Government wasn’t getting the reaction they wanted from the public, they didn’t want to lose out on the money the fronted for the vaccine so they then mandated the vaccine for children in 1991.

So basically when the whores and drug users didn’t run into to the doctors, hospitals and wherever else the vaccine was available, the Government was worried about money so they said “Sure let's give this to our children.”

When contracting hepatitis B symptoms include:
Loss of Appetite
Jundice
Muscle aches
Fever
Nausea and vomiting

With worst case hepatitis B is known to cause liver damage, but even PubMed Health website states that usually hepatitis B cures ITSELF within a few weeks to a few months.

So why do I have a problem giving our children the Hep B vaccine? I have split it up into 4 sections.

1)Let’s be real, in today’s world babies are having babies. Children are doing drugs. So knowing what can and does happen in the US the vaccine that could help your child not contract Hep B is a good idea. But unless your child is going be sexually active before the 10 the vaccine is going to be useless because the vaccine is only good for at best 7 years. So if you give your child their Hep B vaccine at 3, they are only “safe” from hepatitis B until the age of 10.

But if it is good for 7 years, why do we give the vaccine at birth, 1-2 months, and 6-18 months. When looking a vaccine for children between 11-19 they only recommend it for tweens and teens if they haven’t already received their vaccine.

2) Renee Tocco, Doctor and daughter of Mary Tocco, explained at a seminar in 2011 that Hep B is an adult disease, night highly contagious, not considered deadly for most, and is not an epidemic in the US. Also, remember that hepatitis can cure itself in a few months or less.

3) By law the CDC gives doctors handouts who are in return supposed to give these handouts to moms and dads stating why you should give your child the vaccine, reactions, what to do in case there is a reaction, so on and so forth. In the Hep B handout, it states anybody who has an allergy to yeast should not get the vaccine. How do you know if your newborn baby is allergic to yeast? If you do not know do you think you should be injecting a vaccine in to their fragile body?

4) Renee stated that in 1996 there were less than 300 cases of hepatitis b infection for anyone under the age of 14. Yet that same year more than three times that amount of children had an adverse reaction to the Hep B vaccine. Although I would want my child to get a fever, vomit, become jaundice, or one of the symptoms that Hepatitis B can cause I would prefer that before they had an anaphylactic shock, lupus, chronic fatigue, vascular disorders, and more serious consequences compared to an infection that last a few months. Let alone Hep B is linked to Autism and brain development delays.

So lets recap on why I think the Hep B vaccine is not necessary for your child
1) The are given to babies who do not participate in activities that usually gives you Hep B (Drugs and sex) and the because it only last 7 years it only help them in their adult age
2) Hep B is not an epidemic and can cure itself
3) The vaccine is not recommended for anyone who has a yeast allergy, and how would you know if your newborn had this allergy
4) Adverse reactions to the Hep B vaccines happens more than the actual disease

I am not telling you to not vaccinate your child. I am not telling you not not vaccinate your child. I am just sharing what I have found in my research and maybe you can start researching too. Or at least asking questions! I’m asking you to listen to your gut, your instinct, and most of all your intuition.

As an added bonus, I posted a chart below that I have posted in the past. If you look at it, they recommend the Hep B vaccine at 1-2 months and 6-18 months. Yet, they give your newborn it anyways?





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Work Cited

Immunization for Coalition. “Talking with Parent about Vaccines” Immunization for Coalition. St. Paul Minnesota. 2012 .
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001324/>

National Center for Biotechnology Information. “Hepatitis B” PubMed Health. Bethesda MD. 2012.
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001324/>

O’Shea, Tim. The Sanctity of Human Blood. North Woods. San Jose, CA. 2003

Tocco, Renee. (2011) ‘The Explosion of Childhood Illness’ TNR. 08/2011.


Handouts on Vaccine from CDC:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-hep-b.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-multi.pdf