Immunization Dilemma

Do you immunize your children to protect them from disease, or do you choose to take that chance and protect them from the immunization it’s self?

Not long ago it was fairly rare for someone to question the importance of immunizations, yet now it’s become quite a dilemma, mainly in children. Which is the lesser of the two evils? This is the question everyone’s asking. It simply depends on who you ask though.

I know this is a topic that is up there with politics, religion, and abortion in controversial status and will always spark strong debate from both sides. Just the kind of topic I choose to avoid discussing on a personal level, BUT (yes, there’s that word…) I am going to go out on a limb and tackle it today. I am going to post my real life opinion along with some controversial facts right here on this blog…

Let me just list a little bit of information on what could be entering your child’s (or infant’s) body…

DTaP: formaldehyde, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80).
Act HIB: ammonium sulfate, formalin, and sucrose (or HIB Titer: ammonium sulfate, thimerosal, and chemically defined yeast-based medium).
MMR: hydrolized gelatin, chick embryo, human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue.
Verivax (Chickenpox): phosphate, sucrose, and monosodium glutamate (MSG), processed gelatin, fetal bovine serum, guinea pig embryo cells, albumin from human blood, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue.
IPOL (polio): neomycin, streptomycin, and polymyxin B, formaldehyde, and 2-phenoxyethenol, continuous line of monkey kidney cells.
Havrix (hepatitis A): formalin, aluminum hydroxide, 2-phenoxyethanol, and polysorbate 20, residual MRC5 proteins -human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue.
Flu Shield: trivalent influenza virus, types A&B, gentamicin sulphate, formadehyde, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80),chick embryonic fluid. (Fluvirin: influenza virus, neomycin, polymyxin, beta-propiolactone, chick embryonic fluid.

*You can see where I got this information HERE*

Now this is only to name a few of the most popular. Do you recognize ANY of these ingredients? I mean aside from the obvious and reoccurring formaldehyde because I’m sure we all know what that is. Would you EAT any of this? Would you give your child a teaspoon of any of this? I’m pretty sure that answer was no. If your answer was yes then I recommend looking a few of these things and their side effects up and reconsidering (possibly seeking professional help).

If you wouldn’t eat it why would you inject it into your veins? Or even more important a child's?

I understand, they say the amount of each of these harmful chemicals is minimal, but I’m still not ok with it. There are so many disgusting and awful ingredients listed here but, formaldehyde, really?! We fill dead bodies with that, why would we begin filling our babies with it? Every couple months, every six months, a year, two years, whatever the case. It all adds up. So I ask you, why? To protect your child from a disease? Is it really worth it?

Research on this is so conflicted it makes my brain hurt. One side saying that these immunizations are perfectly safe, the other side saying they can cause (or trigger) things like SIDS, Autism, Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes, and other life altering disorders that you can’t reverse. I do not know everything about every one of these chemicals and the impact each of them have on the human body, nor am I claiming to, but I do know that I would not willingly put these things into my own body(much less a baby's). I do believe God made our bodies capable of building up an immune system and fighting off disease for a reason. You can argue that (however long ago) people died from these illnesses and the invention of the vaccination was a “God send”. I will only counter with clean water and really clean anything was also scarce, hygiene practices were not what they are today, things like Autism were much less common. Coincidence?

It’s true, by choosing not to get immunizations you have to be more careful, sometimes depending on your surroundings A LOT more careful. But with this said and with my oldest in a public Kindergarten, my children have been sick with more than a runny nose only ONCE in the last year and a half and even that passed rather quickly. I don’t keep them in a bubble and I don’t limit their exposure (we go to places like Chuck E Cheese *GASP!*), we simply practice good hygiene habits, wash our hands after being in public or after touching something dirty, and before eating.

Again, everyone has their own opinion on the subject and is going to do what they feel is right for their family, this is simply what I chose. I will always remember what a lady said after she was done telling me why she chose not to and that is:
”I would rather my child get sick from something I didn’t do, than become permanently damaged from something I did do.”

Kayla