What are the bare minimum vaccinations we can give a child if we are worried about the risk of autism.?

Question

I'm sick of reading stories about mothers taking their kids to get all these vaccinations and never being the same after. The schedule is the only major chance in our society before the number of cases of autism exploded.

I think we can do without the shots to prevent childhood illnesses like chickenpox, etc. And we need the polio shot.

Do they really need the hep shots as a child or can those wait?

Here is the schedule from the CDC for a baby born today:


April 2009 (Birth to 2 months)
Hepatitis B

May 2009 (1 to 4 months)
Hepatitis B

June 2009 (2 months)
DTaP
Hib
Polio (IPV)
Pneumococcal (PVC)
Rotavirus

August 2009 (4 months)
DTaP
Hib
Polio (IPV)
Pneumococcal (PVC)
Rotavirus

October 2009 (6 months)
DTaP
Hib
Pneumococcal (PVC)
Rotavirus

October 2009 (6 to 18 months)
Hepatitis B
Polio (IPV)

April 2010 (12 to 15 months)
Hib
MMR
Pneumococcal (PVC)
Varicella

April 2010 (12 to 23 months)
Hepatitis A

July 2010 (15 to 18 months)
DTaP

April 2011 (2 to 6 years)
Hepatitis A

April 2013 (4 to 6 years)
Varicella
DTaP
Polio (IPV)
MMR

April 2020 (11 to 12 years)
TDaP (DTaP booster)
Meningococcal (MCV4)
HPV (girls only)

Note: Your child should receive a flu shot every fall after turning 6 months old.

Answer 1

I have a child with autism. And I truly believe that childhood vaccines contributed to the problem. Even the head of the CDC admitted that there is an epidemic of children coming down with autism.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/04/cdc-admits-vacc.html (here is the article).



So do your research before you vaccinate your child. Make sure they are spread enough apart, and make sure the shots are free of all harmful traces of mercury.

Answer 2

Dr Sears Alternative Vaccine Schedule 2013

Answer 3

the type of autism you're speaking approximately, recessive autism, is easily-known to usually seem at approximately 18 months. Coincidentally, the MMR vaccine (mumps, measles, rubella) is given at 18 months. various folk link the vaccine to recessive autism, however many learn have been finished and there is no conclusive data that there is a link. that's an ongoing component however, and we'd by no skill comprehend if it is purely a coincidence or what. the substantial component is to maintain vaccinating your little ones! with the present border disaster people from countries devoid of the vaccines and scientific technologies we've are flooding our borders and bringing each form of illnesses in the process. The CDC has no administration over this disaster, so which you ought to guard your little ones. merely with the aid of fact american little ones are required to be vaccinated (to flow to public college) does no longer mean that those illnesses the vaccines are made to sidestep are thoroughly irradicated

Answer 4

In my country, it is slightly different and less agressive. (Canada) The professionnals who decided our calendar must know what they are doing and have facts supported by research, so it might give you an idea as to what is less important.The rotavirus and chicken pox are optional. (I opted out.) Hepatitis B is given only in fourth grade.



Most of the vaccines are conjugated (more than one in the same shot) At 2-4-6 months, it's two shots that contain DCaT-Polio-Hib and Pneumocoque. MMR is another important one. These are illnesses that kill or have serious consequences.



Flu is a matter of personal choice, like rotavirus. There are many strands that cause the illness, and the shot protects against only one. You have to make a judgement call as a parent; there are risks to vaccination, just as well as risks to no immunization !

Answer 5

Vaccine schedules are not carved in stone.



You can delay them all until age 2-3 years if you wanted, this is becoming common in the US/Canada, its the norm in Japan.



You can only do ones that you think are important to start, you can space them out, you can break them up.



Dr Sears has a schedule of delayed/broken up vaccines. There are many other schedules as well. Even the CDC has a "catch up" schedule which some delay vax-ers use, though most that delay also break them up and do a more minimal approach.



All you can do is get as much information as you can, try to get a basic grasp of study methodology. Weigh the risks and benefits of the vaccines vs the risk of contracting the disease and the risks of the disease if contracted (it can be helpful to find medical books from before the vaccines. Its funny how some disease were described as "mild, with very rare complications" before vaccines and now in the era of antibiotics, antivirals, oxygen therapy, IVs, etc, etc are said to have a "high rate of complications"

Answer 6

Hi!



There's so much hype around this topic, I put together a summary that maybe will help you with your decision. The choice is yours, of course, but you should hear from someone who doesn't have an agenda. My agenda is the same as yours, to be a good parent, nothing more.



Do vaccines cause autism?

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Some parents claim they do. But there are many many studies that show no link between vaccines and autism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy#Recent_studies



Also, many parents have stopped vaccinating, or are vaccinating less over the past 10 years

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-immunization29-2009mar29,0,3148179.story



but the rate at which autism is diagnosed is still climbing, unchanged:

http://www.fightingautism.org/idea/autism.php



If autism was caused by vaccines, and if many parents (as many as 40% in some wealthy California districts) are choosing to not vaccinate, shouldn't we see SOME change in the rate of autism diagnosis?





Is there an autism epidemic?

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It sure seems like it, doesn't it? You never used to hear about it, then came Rain Man, then came Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, Larry King and Oprah, and now everyone has an autistic kid.



So if autism is rising, all things being equal, then we should see more kids applying for special education assistance in school, right?



But we don't. We see about the same number (as a % of population) getting special attention in school that we saw 10 years ago. But more of them are diagnosed as having "autism spectrum disorder" and fewer are diagnosed with other disorders.

http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog/?p=297



Other studies are similar. There may be a slight rise in actual cases of autism, but it's hard to see through all the "switched diagnoses" and the effect of greater awareness of the condition: "Honey, I just learned on Oprah that Johnny is autistic."





How did this vaccine-autism thing start?

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In 1998 Dr. Andrew Wakefield at the Royal Free Hospital in England concluded, based on a study of 12 kids, that there was a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism. Since then, it has been learned that:



what he said about the kids medical histories was not true;

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5683671.ece



10 of the 12 doctors who co-authored the study removed their names from the study and published a retraction saying: "We wish to make it clear that in this paper no causal link was established between MMR vaccine and autism as the data were insufficient.";

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistic_enterocolitis#.22Retraction_of_an_interpretation.22



While they were criticizing the MMR vaccine, Wakefield and the Royal Free Hospital were filing patent applications for an ALTERNATIVE VACCINE!

http://briandeer.com/wakefield/vaccine-patent.htm



Wakefield now faces professional misconduct charges.



Yes, he's a charismatic guy who seems really sincere in his desire to help people. But I fear he will be remembered by history as a major contributor to a resurgence of deadly diseases.





Is it really possible that this is all just hype??

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Over the past 6 years, Americans convinced themselves that (1) it was just fine to give mortgages to people who had no down payment and no income; and (2) these mortgages became valuable assets when repackaged and sold by banks.



The entire premise is absurd, yet we ALL fell for it, and our economy is in shambles.



Yes, it's possible for people to get fooled by hype, fooled in MASSIVE numbers. We're in a period where science=unnatural=bad. After all, sticking a needle into a baby seems grossly unnatural, and unnatural is bad, right? So blaming vaccines for SOMETHING just feels right.



But that is bad logic. Diseases are all natural, and they are bad. Very bad.

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010978.html



Humans realized long ago that they could be fooled, and they started coming up with ways to keep from being fooled. That's where the scientific method, and controlled, blinded studies came from - a desire to not be fooled.





So by all means do your own research. But please, don't be fooled.

Answer 7

You have the right to choose to go without vaccinations altogether for your child, to space them out (giving them one at a time), and/or having some administered and not others. It is YOUR choice.



Contrary to popular belief, a child who is not vaccinated CAN attend school. There are exemptions available for medical reasons, religious reasons and philosophical reasons. It is NOT mandatory to be up to date on all immunizations to attend school.

Answer 8

Immunizations do not cause autism. there is not evidence of that. it's too dangerous not vaccinate.

Answer 9

Please research the link to autism - it is virtually non-existent.



Your choice to vaccinate or not, is up to you, but read up on it first.