The HIB vaccine is recommended by the AAP (American Association of Pediatrics) to be administered at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and 15 months.
It is used to treat Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (henceforth referred to as HIB – because I just can’t type that phrase more than once a day.)
HIB is serious. It causes meningitis, blood infections, bone infections, and pneumonia. It is transmitted like the common cold, and most cases, it remains in the nose, ears, or throat and mimics the common cold in that manner as well. The aforementioned serious infections are actually quite rare. The fatality rate is 5%. 25% have residual brain damage.
HIB is not common. There are only 25 cases per year, almost all under age 5, and mostly in the age bracket of 2 and under. It is rarely seen past age 3. HOWEVER, before the vaccine was introduced in the 80s, there were 20,000 cases of serious HIB per year. That’s not the simple ear infection/sore throat kind.
Side effects from this vaccine are mostly very safe (fever, fussiness, redness, and swelling) but can also include Guillain-Barre syndrome and/or serious HIB infection.
The serious HIB infection is caused by the vaccine, but it is not the vaccine that infected them. For five days after the vaccine is given, the body is unable to fight off the real HIB bacteria. So, simply keep your baby at home from daycare and you should be fine. Especially since HIB is so rare these days.
Guillain-Barre syndrome is when the body’s immune system attacks the nervous system, causing weakness and paralysis, which eventually wear off. But intensive care is needed for all the body’s systems that shut down in the meantime. Very scary for a baby. However, although it has been reported after some vaccines, it has never been *proven* that there is a connection between the two. Some studies suggest that when tetanus is present in a vaccine (such as it is in the HIB vaccine), it can logically be assumed that Guillain-Barre is a threat because of the way tetanus typically attacks a person’s nervous system. But then, just when you think you’ve got it figured out, you find that Guillain-Barre syndrome can strike for no reason at all.
Anything controversial about the vaccine?
In one out of the three brands available, there are controversial levels of aluminum. The guilty brand is PedVaxHIB. The aluminum-free brands are ActHIB and HibTITER.
And if you want to be absolutely sure that you don’t get Guillain-Barre syndrome, you better go with a tetanus-free vaccine, right? That eliminates ActHIB.
(But why do they put the tetanus in the vaccine, Beth?! WHY?!)
(Because they have to bond the HIB sugar (the sugars the form the outer coating of the HIB bacteria) with something and they decided that a chemical produced by the tetanus bacterium (a toxoid, to be exact) was the best available option.)
So, between the aluminum and the tetanus, that leaves HibTITER as the only safe brand, right? Well, it doesn’t use tetanus, it uses diphtheria. And I haven’t read anything about serious side-effects from vaccines that use diphtheria toxoids. So this may be the best option, yes.
All that said, I must also tell you that HIB has the safest side effect profile of all vaccines.
If it’s so “safe” then why preach about aluminum to us?
Glad you asked!
When given more than 10 micrograms per day through IV solutions, the bones and brains of premature babies accumulated aluminum at toxic levels. The FDA has required a daily limit of 25 micrograms of aluminum in nutritional IVs.
The HIB vaccine has 225 micrograms of aluminum.
WHY?!
“It helps the vaccines work better.”
Now, all aluminum toxicity studies were performed using IV solutions, which were injected right into the blood. Vaccines are injected into muscle and tissue, then diffuse slowly into the bloodstream. So pediatricians keep using vaccines with aluminum, thinking, hoping, praying that it diffuses at such a slow rate that it will not be an issue.
BUT THERE HAVE BEEN NO STUDIES ON THE ALUMINUM IN VACCINES.
And 225 micrograms is nothing compared to some of the combination shots that can contain up to 1500 micrograms.
In several studies on animals, the aluminum caused brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s disease. And, while there have been no studies on healthy babies, studies on premature babies showed impaired neurological and mental development.
So my conclusion about the HIB vaccine:
Benjamin has already received two doses of this. He is scheduled to receive a third soon (he has yet to have a six-month appointment.) Given the information I have gathered, I have decided that he will get the HIB vaccine if he can receive the HibTITER brand. (And I don’t know why that should be a problem.)
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All information taken from The Vaccine Book by Dr. Robert Sears.
Thanks for doing this series. I’m looking forward to what you have to say and what you’ve learned. 🙂
Kudos to you for doing your research and making an informed decision! I look forward to following this series.
I just bought my own copy of the book. I bought it through ebates because through tomorrow they are offering $10 if you make your first purchase. I ordered it from half.com, total after shipping was $12.03, So I’ll get back $10 for making my first purchase, plus I already had $5 in there for signing up, and I’ll get 3% of what I spent at half.com. HE HE HE HE. So i got the book for free, actually, they paid me. I have to wait until May before they cut the check though. oh well. At least I’ll be able to research the other two shots Lexi was supposed to get this month. Polio and DTaP.
Awesome info. I’m having my library get the book for me and it should be in this week. I’m so glad you’re doing this series. I waited until 6 months to start my little guy on anything, but I just feel the docs just do whatever they want. Mines good if I ask questions, but otherwise, it’s like don’t ask, don’t tell. We’re supposed to be due for another well child visit, but I think I’ll read up a bit more first. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
One thing you didn’t mention (but I assume may have been in your book) is that children over a certain age are much less likely to contract a serious Hib infection. I can’t recall off the top of my head what that age is, but I don’t think it’s much over a year, if that.
MrsB – I checked and you’re right. In fact, I misquoted the book, now that I look at it! I said it is most common between ages 5 and 2… really, it is most common under age 2, but has been reported up to age 5 and is RARE past age 3. I’ll have to fix that!
Thanks!
Thanks for this informative post. I want to buy this book, but haven’t had the opportunity….but have been putting off well baby visits because I want time to sort my feelings and learn more. I haven’t felt right about shots this time around.
Glad to hear you are researching your options here. I guess that’s why doctors go to school for so long, there sure is a lot to know about medicine!
But if you have not already seen this site I think it makes some crucial points you’ll want to consider.
I think that the thing I was most informed about and blown away by in the Vaccine Book was the whole aluminum thing. SO scary!
My dd is 5 months old and hasn’t received the Hib, although I know that she is in the risky age group, she is at a low risk to get it. I didn’t want to do any vaccs til 6 months but after reading the book I realized she was most vulnerable to certain things before that. So we are doing a couple of others.
Although my ped tries to scare me into it everytime I go telling me he has seen kids die from it. I am glad you are doing this online. I am sure that it will help many or peak their interest anyway.
In response to Alicia, since this mindset seems so prevelant in some circles:
So telling you that high levels of aluminum caused brain damage in animals is simply informative, whereas firsthound accounts of patients dying from a virus is trying to scare you? That makes it sound an awful lot like your mind was made up before hearing either.
I’m with Jeremy. So many people seem to have their minds made up to non-vax in advance that they just don’t seem to listen when hearing real medical case files of people who suffered for not having the vax in question. I’m sorry, but I grew up in the so-called third world. Choosing to not vaccinate when your doctors are urging you–to me, a rich person’s luxury in first-world America where we don’t have bigger things to worry about.
As for those who think the docs are in a conspiracy with the pharmaceutical companies and the like (and there are many non-vaxers who think this way)…to me that’s a as kooky as Tom Cruise. Mistakes in medicine? Yes, it happens. Fallouts from vaccinations? Certainly, in rare cases. But a huge big web of deceit created by our medical establishment in cahoots with the drug companies…? Give me a break. Informig yourself — good. But thinkign your opinion on medical matters is as valuable as your pediatrician’s? IMO, dumb.
Thanks for the insight. I do believe in vaccinating our children with research and knowledge. Read this article I found on CNN today. One man has 3 children that are paralyzed from Polio. We are fortunate to have vaccines available to us. I think we have gotten so used to the benefits of having a mostly vaccinized society that we forget what life was/could be like without them.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/13/iraq.wheelchairs/index.html#cnnSTCText
Because this is so rare, and because the risk of it basically subsides after age 5, and because we aren’t the typical day-care set, we have decided not to do this particular vaccination for any of our (future) kids.
One thing that I keep in mind is God and His sovereignty. The best defense against ANY virus is being healthy and hygienic. It’s impossible–and in fact, crippling to our immune systems–to prevent every disease. I feel that doing the best we can with what we have and what the Lord has led us to do is the right decision for every family. So, keeping in mind that there are far better ways to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases than just vaccinating, the risks of vaccines, the low risk of catching any of those diseases, and that God is sovereign, we feel that erring on the side of caution with vaccines is best for our family. If my child happened to be one of the 30 kids out of the millions in America that caught a vaccine-preventable disease, even to the point of death, I wouldn’t feel guilty at all, because I know that God’s hand is on our family and He has brought us to the place of knowledge that He has, and must have a higher purpose for it. That, and I know that vaccines are not 100% effective. In nearly every “outbreak” of these diseases, half or more than half of the children stricken had been fully vaccinated.
Crabmommy: Do you know what they call a man who skated through medical school with barely passing grades?
Doctor.
It’s a joke, but it’s true. Doctors deal and learn in statistics and generalities; I know my children better than they do, and I am capable (especially in this day and age) of informing myself and availing myself with medical knowledge as well. Which I think is important.
As for the “conspiracy theory”, how could you NOT think that big corporations have financial, vested interest in their products? It’s interesting, to me, that people are quick to defend the idea that people are only looking out for the greater good of mankind and not for their own pocketbooks, especially in THIS day and age of rampant corporate and government corruption. Seems like every year we hear about some big scandal involving a big company like that–and the vaccine companies have had their fair share. Even the former US Surgeon General admitted that governmental health policies were enacted on bias–I believe the actual quote is along the lines of research being “interpreted through political bias”.
I’m not suggesting that it’s some sort of sinister conspiracy to make everyone autistic, or that there aren’t people out there that DO care and ARE trying. Nor do I believe that vaccines have done no good–especially in third world countries, where the diseases are rampant due to lack of hygienic care or ability toward clean water etc. Of course, there has been scandal in that sector as well–so many cases of polio caused by the vaccine recently in Africa because vaccine makers were unwilling to comp the cost of iPv instead or oral polio, that they actually stopped the vaccination program since it was causing more harm than good…but I digress.
I think there has been a lot of fear-mongering on BOTH sides. It really doesn’t bless the cause when people spout off their fearful opinions or make decisions based solely on fear on either side of the debate. But it also does no good to assume that doctors are gods who have all medical and experiential knowledge designed to treat each individual person as they, the individual, needs to be treated, and that people cannot make informed decisions because they don’t have an M.D. after their name.
Mrs. Taft: Do you know what they call a man who skated through medical school with barely passing grades?
Way smarter than you.
Its a joke, but its true. While doctors are not medical gods, they are a lot closer than your or I will ever be after a couple months of reading a few anti-vaccination books.
There’s nothing wrong with educating yourself. But as with all things, we can’t all be seasoned experts in everything, no matter how much we would like to be. When it comes down to the health and safety of your child, the responsible thing to do is to get a few different opinions and then go with the smart money and take the advice of the person with decades more training and experience than you.
Your own statements here reveal how hard it is to get good, complete information on these things…
50% of people affected by an outbreak were fully vaccinated? Not even close, read some case studies, it is much closer to 4%
These diseases can be prevented by good hygiene? Brush your teeth and take a bath as much as you want, you’re still going to catch polio when it comes to town. These diseases were -rampant- not that many years ago, and its not an increase in kids covering their mouths when they cough that made them dwindle to nothing. It is the vaccines.
The bottom line that vaccinators, non-vaccinators, and doctors alike all agree on is that, despite your take on possible side effects, these vaccines certainly do what they were intended to do. There is no doubt that vaccines have virtually ended the existence of of these diseases in our country. Thanks to vaccines, these diseases are so rare that small groups of parents can get by safely without vaccinating. But if you are of this mindset, the -last- thing you ought to be doing is advertising it on the internet. Because surely, if nothing else, you realize that if enough people adopt this practice, these diseases will be back and your grandkids will have friends at school dying of polio again.
Please, be educated. But don’t assume you are the most educated person you know. You aren’t. You know who probably is? Your doctor.
Benjamin, I’m with you. Mrs. Taft, your statement regarding your kids and doctors — “I know my children better than they [doctors] do” — is absurd. You “know” what goes on in their bodies? I don’t mean in the sense of having a mom’s instinct when the kid is sick — I’m not knocking that. But “knowing” whether your kid should receive a vaccination, and privileging your mother’s knowledge over your pediatrician’s? That’s not knowledge — that’s hubris.
Look, natural moms, I am one of you. Do I worship at the feet of my pediatrician and cower before the great altar of western medicine? No. When I had my baby, did I ask questions about vaccinations and autism? You bet. And before that, did I immediate fire my OB-GYN for not encouraging me to explore natural birth and midwife-directed birth? Absolutely. But when it comes to my child’s health, I make sure my own pride and “know-it-all” mothering takes a back seat. One might be wary and even skeptical about vaccinations, but to confuse the layperson’s knowledge with a doctor’s knowledge is to reveal one’s ultimate ignorance. Go to a good pediatrician who appreciates the benefits of natural medicine but also knows the good that modern medicine can do. Chances are if that person made it through medical school they’re not a fool. And chances are if they speclialized in pediatrics they’re not out to get you or your child.
As for the comment about giving vaccinations to the third world but hesitating when it comes to our own kids…maybe I shouldn’t even touch it. Except to say, if it’s not good for your kids, it’s not good for anyone’s.
I’m just sad we moms have allowed ourselves to get so high and mighty about all of this. I wonder, if our great-grandmothers could talk about epidemics and show us tiny gravestones, would we listen? Apparently not. Because modern American mother always knows best.
None of this would bother me so much were it not for the fact that the cult of non-vaxing actually affects the health of the vaccinated children out there, like mine. For now, the non-vax crowd are coasting on the immunity of the vaccinated children around them in the first world. Bt the more of you out there who don’t vaccinate, the greater we ALL are at risk of bringing nasty diseases back from the annals of history. Yes, it’s true: non-vaccinated children are still at risk. The immunity shield only works if people stop perforating it.
Our first ped said that he was doing his residency in the early 90s – pre HiB/Prevnar vaccines – and that he did so many spinal taps to check for meningitis that he could do them in his sleep – and that nothing makes a doctor’s heart sink through the floor like pulling that syringe and having it fill with pus because the tiny baby has meningitis.
Now that the vaccines are in place, he said that the residents fight over the spinal taps to get the experience on how to do them because they are so few and far between.
I thought this was an important anecdote – it was a real experience and emotions from a ped/dad who was doing more than quoting the CDC or a textbook.
When we went to our 2nd ped (we switched b/c we moved) we talked about that – and her comment was that if a parent wanted to space out the vaccines that she would really encourage the HiB and Prevnar first b/c Diptheria and Polio are rare – meningitis is still a current disease.
*shrugs* judgmental attitudes and personal attacks really just undermine your points, but that’s fine. I HAVE done my research, and not from anecdotes from Big Brother Conspiracy Theorists but from a medical point of view. Not every doctor is on the vaccination bandwagon, and not every doctor that is on the vaccination bandwagon agrees with the schedule and all that. The case studies I have read from which I got my stats were…where I got my stats. I’m sure there have been other case studies in which the numbers were lower–or higher, even. Irrelevant, really.
A medical degree–or any degree, for that matter– does not equal intelligence. It is a worthy (and expensive) accomplishment to be sure, but that does not mean a doctor is smarter than I am, or vice versa.
I am not against doctors or medicine. I am against blind trust. And I WILL weigh the risks. Some vaccines aren’t worth it, and some are. Some are worth getting sooner than later, and some aren’t. I am not against vaccines, I am not against western medicine. I mean, it would be hard to be against it since nursing was my career path (gave it up to be a stay-at-home mom, before I completed my BSN).
I understand why the things I have said here set me up for such attacks and presumption, however unfortunate and ill-informed they are. I am not a prideful, haughty person. I assure you, for example, I am not qualified to perform surgery, and would have no hesitation trusting the hands of a skilled surgeon to complete that task should the need arise for myself or my children. When I said that I know my child better than my doctor, I didn’t mean that I have all knowledge about everything ever, but that we can work as a team, not as one over the other. I bring the individual aspect, and the doctor brings the clinical. For example, I had bad reactions to my first set of vaccinations, as did my brother. My mom delayed all of our and any subsequent children’s vaccinations because of that (with the blessing, incidentally, of her doctor). We did wait a bit with vaccinations with my oldest, but apparently not long enough, as she also had a terrible reaction. So armed with that knowledge–knowledge that pertains to the specific family pattern and individuality of my children–I can either continue to allow my children to suffer per the CDC’s schedule or I can wait until the majority of danger has passed. My siblings and I are fully vaccinated, but we waited until much later, with success on the reaction front.
The point is, that doesn’t make me smarter than a doctor or a prideful person. It just makes common sense for me and my family.
P.S. No hard feelings or anything, but thanks for the “friendly” reminder as to why I don’t generally bother participating in OMGZTEHINTERNETS debates. 😉 I shall refrain from offering counterpoints from this point forth.
Hey Mrs. Taft,
Sorry if I was hurtful to you.
I certainly don’t want to mince words on what I think is becoming a selfish, dangeous, and snowballing mentality in children’s healthcare.
However, I am just sarcastic by habit and certainly don’t mean any personal offence by what I’ve said. No hard feelings here either, honestly, and sorry to come across as hurtful. You can resume your comments in peace, I’ll leave them alone from here on out =)
In parting, just keep in mind that each of our individual opinions are part of something bigger. You delay a few vacs, skip a couple.. fine. Ten other people you talk to about it do the same.. fine. A few more people skip them entirely….. eh probably fine. But sooner or later this adds up to a significant number of people not vaccinating their kids, and taken as a whole, that really gets to be a bad idea quickly. It is a growing trend, and its not a good one.
Sorry again for sounding harsh before
Mrs. taft, I also do not wish to sound as though I was making personal attacks. But it’s hard not to sound personal when we all make individual statements and invest in them heavily. Children–it’s an emotional thing. I’m with Benjamin: I think this non-vaxing is a dangerous trend. But I understand where the skepticism comes in and I QUITE agree that doctors and parents should work as a team. I too have experienced ADS (Arrogant Doctor Syndrome) and have had pediatrician experiences that I have also found wanting. I just hope we don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater in all of our well-intentioned modern mom quests to question what the doctors tell us. We all want the same things: healthy children. In that way, we can surely all agree. 🙂
And just to add I think when people choose not to vaccinate, I think they should understand why the vaccinating parents find this threatening. It’s not just a personal decision. It affects us all. And as such, it brings out impassioned arguments, not least from the non-vaxers who, in my experience are a very passionate and opinionated group of people. Again, I wish you all luck and hope my comments are never seen as anything other than what they are: the opinions of a mom who just wants the best for her kids and everyone else’s.
This is great info!!! My pediatrician uses Sanofi pasteur….is there any info on this. Thanks again for such great info!
I know this is probably late to add to the discussion-just ran across your blog. But…I can understand both sides of the coin. My daughter received an antibiotic while I was in the hospital delivering her and shortly thereafter received a vacination. This created havoc in her little body. She became constantly constipated lost interest in eating and cried all of the time. A year and a half down the road she falls…her knee swells up…doctors tell us it’s arthritis. Doctors tell us we must put methotrexate in her knee(which is used for abortions and chemotherapy-both of which I am against). My husband can’t stand the thought of it, but I;m thinking, please, anything, just help my child walk again. My husband suggests we go and see an MD that airs more on the natural side. She did some tests, really listened to us, documented our entire family’s medical history and treated us like people. She discovers my daughter is gluten intolerant(as well as a host of other things) takes her off gluten and suddenly she’s walking again. Suddenly she can go to the bathroom. Suddenly she’s happy. Suddenly she wants to eat.
If I had listened to the renowned children’s hospital specialist(who sees kids like mine every day) and put methotrexate(which there are no long term studies on how it can affect her fertility) in her little body where would we be. Not only poisoning her with the medicine but also with a food that the regular doctor didn’t even take the time to try and really diagnose.
It comes down to this…what is the root problem of what’s ailing our children. Let’s just stop making one blanket diagnosis and treatment and rather finding doctors that we can trust and following our own heart and asking GOd to direct our steps. Just my own experience, you can take it or leave it.
I have been trying to find hibTITER here in Virginia but have come up on a brick wall. I am being told that this vaccine is no longer being made.
The ACThib vaccine which seems to be the only one available here contains trace amounts of Thermerisol (although my Dr’s clinic has a blanket statement that they DO NOT have any vaccines containing Thermerisol – they are Thermerisol free).
Where can I find hibTITER??
Dr Sears approach to separating the vaccinations is wrong and he is making a lot of money off of it. He is a private doc; so he makes more money every time he has his patients return to the office for their monthly injection.
He claims that aluminum in these vaccines has side effects when injected, but has no scientific evidence to support this claim. He sites Aluminum Intravenous (in the vein) reports from the FDA but does not mention that vaccines are ONLY given in the muscle or subcutaneous tissues (IM or SQ). This is analogous to oxygen, we breath it to keep us alive. If you inject it into the muscle it hurts, but does not kill you. If you inject oxygen into an vein, it can kill you.
Dr Sears is screaming fire in a crowded room and creating a lot of hysteria about vaccinations for monetary gains including his book and his patients who seek him out for his vaccine approach; for few others in the health care field follow his quackery , because it is NOT based on SCIENCE.
We do NOT know the side effects of Dr Sears approach to spreading out the vaccines.
Will this cause more long term exposure to Aluminum?
Will the monthly injections create psychological problems for these children and their parents; thus affecting the parent-child relationship?
Are these children being exposed to more infections just by going to the doctors office so frequently?
Does Dr Sears care? If he did, he would invest the millions of dollars he is receiving into researching his theories.
Thank you very much for writing up what you found in your research Beth and the rest of you who have posted here. We had seen some concerns mentioned about aluminum in vaccines, but the information you and others posted her helped us come to a plan we were comfortable enough with.
We had already not had the hepB at the hospital. Since our baby has no reasons for needing blood transfusions, the odds of getting it are astromonically small, so we’ll wait for a while on that one.
We went ahead with the DTAP at the two month appointment, but only after making sure it was the Sanofi version (Daptacel) they used, and not the GSK (Infanrix) with much higher levels of aluminum. The Daptacel still meant 330mcg of aluminum, which is a bit worrying, but it is a lot better than the 1200+ you could get with Infanrix, Comvax and Prevnar.
We also had the HIB at the same time, since they had ACThib (no aluminum). The risk of Guillain-Barre seemed very, very small, so we took it.
To Anthony,
I read the Dr. Sears articles that are online and he is the farthest thing from a quack. He simply raises questions (no assertions of fact or known results) about something that clearly hasn’t been researched sufficiently and hasn’t been around long enough to know if we might see harmful results. I agree with him that I hope all of this is not a real concern, since millions of children, including our older daughter, are being given the full set of vaccines, often including the brands with extremely high levels of aluminum.
Sure – Type B has gone down but now go do some research on serotype replacement. The vax is working to diminish the B strain and other strains are increasing to fill that niche. Strains that are NOT included in the vaccine.
I just wanted to let you know that I stumbled upon your blog in doing a little research of my own on vaccines. My son is one and we have not decided what to do as of yet, but I have found your information very helpful. And I love your writing style. I hope you don’t mind if I put you on my blog roll. I know of a few friends that might find your blog interesting as well. I don’t know if I can be considered a true natural mommy (I use pampers), but I am all for natural childbirth (home birth for me!) and breastfeeding. I am looking forward to reading your posts on breastfeeding. I am still nursing my son and expecting another one in November! Thanks again!
I found this article from the Pediatrics Journal, 2003. I hope it helps shed a bit of light on the aluminum discussion.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/112/6/1394 (read under ADJUVANTS)
Highlights:
1) Breast milk contains approximately 40 micrograms of aluminum per liter, and infant formulas contain an average of approximately 225 micrograms of aluminum per liter.
2) The ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) concluded that the minimum risk level for exposure to aluminum was 2 mg/kg/day (2,000 micrograms per kilogram per day).
3) The safety of aluminum has been established by experience during the past 70 years, with hundreds of millions of people inoculated with aluminum-containing vaccines. Adverse reactions including erythema, subcutaneous nodules, contact hypersensitivity, and granulomatous inflammation have been observed rarely.
4) The burden of aluminum to which infants are exposed in food and vaccines is clearly less than the guideline established by the ATSDR and far less than that found to be safe in experimental animals.
Just found one more thing in the Pediatrics Journal which deals directly with Dr. Sears Alternative Vaccine Schedule:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/123/1/e164
I have read that often antibodies from the mother and thereafter breastmilk can help to protect the baby against invasive hib infection the first 6 months of life, therefore its very unusual with infection in young infants. But how is it if I breastfeed longer? Can my milk only provide protection for 6 months or is it the same even after, if i continue breastfeeding?
Im wondering cause i wold like to postphone the hibvaccine for a while.
20,000 babies out of the population getting HIB per year is not a risk that justifies millions of babies getting a vaccine containing 225 mcg of aluminum which certainly causes brain damage. The studies show brain damage is virtually a certainty. Here is a link to one study you should read:
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/shaw.pdf
So if one injection can cause brain damage, imagine how much damage is done by multiple aluminum containing vaccines.
Do the math. Your children have a greater risk of brain damage, even if undetectable by you initially, than they do of ever contracting HIB. Shouldn’t we be asking why those 20,000 got HIB but millions of other children didn’t? Could it because they were vulnerable in a way that is easily preventable, say with proper nutrition?
There are studies that clearly implicate poor nutrition in disease causation, not lack of vaccine. Let’s stop poisoning our children, stop living in fear of diseases that are preventable without vaccination, and start using our heads.
you should check out David Kirby’s book. Evidence Of Harm. You’ll probably not even want to do the 6 month shots. I have twins. My daughter is fine and my son has bad autism. He did not come out this way. The rates for autism are like 1 in 86 in boys.
Also, there are some good videos by Dr.Buttar on youtube. He recovered his son from autism. He has a four videos on there explaining why vaccines are so bad .
I am happy that you have taken the time to write on this issue. I don’t want anyone to go through this nightmare that our family is going through. My son is 5.5 yrs and does not talk nor is he potty trained. He is dangerous and will eat anything. He does not understand what danger is. It is very sad and my heart breaks daily for our loss and his loss. Just because of the drugs companies wanting to make a buck.
You have written a well documented article. However, all medicine/vaccinations can have secret ingredients that are protected by trade agreements. The exact ingredients of vaccine adjuvants falls into that protection. It is illegal for the CDC or anyone to reveal that there is peanut oil in the vaccine that your doctor is injecting into your child.
There is a new book out “The History of the Peanut Allergy Epidemic” by Heather Frazier. Heather’s son has a fatal peanut allergy. If he smells peanuts, he could die. I have a friend whose daughter has a fatal fish allergy.
Peanut oil is one of the ingredients that can be used as a diluent in vaccines and it does not have to appear on the package insert. Do your own search of patents on-line and you will find not only peanut oil but all food oils can be mixed together and used. Also food waste is used to grow the cultures to produce the vaccines. It is not used in the “final” feeding.
The result is there can be small amounts of food protein remaining in the vaccines. Vaccines are like playing food allergy roulette with your child. It was not a problem when we only gave a couple of vaccines to children. When I was a child, there were only two routine vaccinations… now there are 60!
Food allergy was nearly unknown when I was a child. Now it is a major problem among young children. Fatal food allergies are becoming more and more common.
Even our pet dogs are suffering from peanut allergy these days from their vaccinations.
Also I would highly recommend that you check out Andrew Moulden’s videos on youtube or at his website brainguardmd. His research shows that all vaccinations cause ministrokes. You can watch a video that shows the bloodstream. The white blood cells roll along the artery wall.
Each vaccination added to the childhood vaccinations schedule is worth about a billion dollars to the manufacturer. They are the ones who fund all the “peer-reviewed” research. Any studies done “outside” of the “accepted studies” are immediately discounted. The studies that have been done that find dangers always end with “this deserves further study” then no further study is ever done.
Another problem I have found about vaccines is the slight fever that they cause. Parents are told to give the baby Tylenol. Tylenol has the side effect of producing asthma in children. It also decreases the body’s ability to detox the aluminum and other toxins in the vaccines.
Although I understand all the fear and uncertainty around vaccinations, I thought that you might want to read this link as another different explanation of aluminum: http://www.chop.edu/service/vaccine-education-center/hot-topics/aluminum.html (some people in the comments mention the details, too.)
Having spoken to older doctors who watched children get sick and die for HiBs, I would be very careful to way all sides before deciding to delay or skip this vaccine.
I also would like to state that the cause remains unknown for Guillain-Barre syndrome but it usually comes on after a respiratory or stomach bug.
Good luck with your decision-making process!
The amounts of aluminum you refer to are for injested aluminum. When you eat aluminum, your body has natural filters that help you get rid of any excess. All of this is bypassed when the aluminum is injected directly into your bloodstream — especially if you are under the age of 2 and your blood-brain barrier is not fully developed. Then your body cannot excrete the excess aluminum, and it can accumulate in the brain. And aluminum accumulation in the brain is most definitely linked to neurological disorders. Why else do you think “contains aluminum” is clearly labelled on certain IV fluids in the hospital? So the nurses know not to give you too much or over too long a time frame . . . it is highly toxic.
What I find interesting (being born in the late 70’s) is that this vaccine didn’t exsist then & we were all fine, now there’s a much less of a chance getting HIB and now we are vaccinating for it? I understand it was probably eliminated with the vaccine being intorduced but like I said, now it’s rare why are we doing it?
Does anyone know where or how i can get the hibTiter vaccine for my nine month daughter? I called my doctor and they didn’t have that kind and said that they couldn’t get that “brand” of the HIB vaccine…
Thank you so much for this. I am a first time mom and the vaccine issues and side effects are just exhausting. I am thankful I have my faith and pray before doctors visits or I’d be a wreck. That said I called my Dr today and they do use the PedVax brand . I asked for the other brand so we’ll see what happens but I am so over when you ask a question you can tell they get annoyed as if I’m just a fruitcake mom who doesn’t understand anything regarding medicine. I may not know medicine but I do know I don’t want to add poisons to my child if I can avoid them.
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