I don't doubt anything you have said here. You obviously know your stuff. As a layperson with kids who has only read up on a few articles here and there over the years from biased articles on both sides of the issue, I generally wind up in a quandary about it all. Definitely the spectrum has broaden over the last 30 years and thus the diagnosis rate increases.
I am more inclined to accept that environmental factors are a more prevalent leading cause like chemical runoff, dumping, ground water leaching. As you pointed out certain power plant pollution as well.
But at the core of all this are parents who claim that their kids changed or dimmed with in a short time after receiving their recommended child hood vaccines. Maybe there are genetic markers that some how interact with these vaccines? All know is that if you are a parent and this happened to your kid, the first thing you are thinking is what occurred recently out of the normal that could cause such drastic change in my child. These parents aren't grasping at straws and saying my kid had vaccines 3 months ago. These changes are happening with in like 2 weeks of inoculation. There seems to be a push lately to completely discredit these parents and their experiences.
There are people out there who are even discrediting alternative/delayed vaccination schedules as being dangerous and exposing your child and the public to diseases even though they all end up with the same vaccinations by school aged.
The recommended vaccine schedule is based on two things:
1.) When children are likely to be exposed to these infections
2.) When their immune systems are developed enough to safely respond to the vaccine
But are they considering the child's development milestones in these schedules? I don't think so. For instance, There is some speculation out there that the Rubella portion of the MMR vaccine is seen as an autism link. Because the actual disease itself can cause brain damage and mental retardation in toddlers. So why would you give a live version of the virus to a toddler during one of the most important brain development periods of their life? 12-24 months when they're brains are going into overdrive trying to recognize speech patterns and comprehension. This just also happens to be the most common diagnosis period for autism.
Is the country really at risk for an MMR outbreak if children didn't get these vaccines until they are 30 months old? Probably not.
I remember having this conservation with our pediatrician for our oldest daughter. We specifically chose her as our Ped because she had a background in vaccine studies. When we initially discussed this with her. She gave us a look of disbelief that we were nutjob anti-vaxers and she was going to recommend us find a different pediatrician. I had to explain to her that we were pro-vaccine, but like many new parents we are concerned about the amount of vaccines give at one time as they were much more than we had in the 80's, are the vaccines indeed preservative free - is there actually such a thing? What did she think of spreading some of these vaccines out, and that we thought she might have more informed opinions on these topics because of the her background. She was actually very supportive of our concerns about preservatives and spacing them out, but in the end we ended up doing the standard schedule because our daycare required it by the State. But if we actually had the opportunity we probably would have spread those shots out.
I am more inclined to accept that environmental factors are a more prevalent leading cause like chemical runoff, dumping, ground water leaching. As you pointed out certain power plant pollution as well.
But at the core of all this are parents who claim that their kids changed or dimmed with in a short time after receiving their recommended child hood vaccines. Maybe there are genetic markers that some how interact with these vaccines? All know is that if you are a parent and this happened to your kid, the first thing you are thinking is what occurred recently out of the normal that could cause such drastic change in my child. These parents aren't grasping at straws and saying my kid had vaccines 3 months ago. These changes are happening with in like 2 weeks of inoculation. There seems to be a push lately to completely discredit these parents and their experiences.
There are people out there who are even discrediting alternative/delayed vaccination schedules as being dangerous and exposing your child and the public to diseases even though they all end up with the same vaccinations by school aged.
The recommended vaccine schedule is based on two things:
1.) When children are likely to be exposed to these infections
2.) When their immune systems are developed enough to safely respond to the vaccine
But are they considering the child's development milestones in these schedules? I don't think so. For instance, There is some speculation out there that the Rubella portion of the MMR vaccine is seen as an autism link. Because the actual disease itself can cause brain damage and mental retardation in toddlers. So why would you give a live version of the virus to a toddler during one of the most important brain development periods of their life? 12-24 months when they're brains are going into overdrive trying to recognize speech patterns and comprehension. This just also happens to be the most common diagnosis period for autism.
Is the country really at risk for an MMR outbreak if children didn't get these vaccines until they are 30 months old? Probably not.
I remember having this conservation with our pediatrician for our oldest daughter. We specifically chose her as our Ped because she had a background in vaccine studies. When we initially discussed this with her. She gave us a look of disbelief that we were nutjob anti-vaxers and she was going to recommend us find a different pediatrician. I had to explain to her that we were pro-vaccine, but like many new parents we are concerned about the amount of vaccines give at one time as they were much more than we had in the 80's, are the vaccines indeed preservative free - is there actually such a thing? What did she think of spreading some of these vaccines out, and that we thought she might have more informed opinions on these topics because of the her background. She was actually very supportive of our concerns about preservatives and spacing them out, but in the end we ended up doing the standard schedule because our daycare required it by the State. But if we actually had the opportunity we probably would have spread those shots out.
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