Would you vaccinate your baby?

[bronxmom2]

Hi, I've asked this question before, but always buried in other posts:

 

Now that you have a PANDAS kid, if you had another baby, would you vaccinate?

 

I have a 15mo who's had some vaccines (up to 6months, I think) but I've refused all vaccines since I found out my older child has PANDAS. I told the dr. at 12 months that I was not necessarily refusing vaccines outright, but asking to delay them... anyway now I have to decide.

 

My husband and I decided to use Sears' alternate vaccine schedule-- which delays and spreads the vaccines out.

 

However I'm not sure I'm even comfortable with this.

 

What would you do?

 

Thanks!

[mom md]

I would give the vaccines but I would delay them and spread them out. I think the Sear's method is a good idea.

[Guest asaxon]

Hi, I've asked this question before, but always buried in other posts:

 

Now that you have a PANDAS kid, if you had another baby, would you vaccinate?

 

I have a 15mo who's had some vaccines (up to 6months, I think) but I've refused all vaccines since I found out my older child has PANDAS. I told the dr. at 12 months that I was not necessarily refusing vaccines outright, but asking to delay them... anyway now I have to decide.

 

My husband and I decided to use Sears' alternate vaccine schedule-- which delays and spreads the vaccines out.

 

However I'm not sure I'm even comfortable with this.

 

What would you do?

 

Thanks!

 

No, absolutely no routine vaccines for my young children. If there is an epidemic, I'll consider vaccinating my non-PANDAS children for the particular disease. And I will probably give my older (non-PANDAS) child a flu vaccine this year, in order to protect his younger sibling who has PANDAS.

 

Now that I have a child with PANDAS, and have poured over dozens of reviews and original research about neuroimmunology, I have come to realize that medical science knows a lot less about the human immune system than I had previously assumed. But it is very likely that there is a genetic factor that makes kids predisposed to PANDAS. So, since I have one child with PANDAS, it seems reckless to me to unnecessarily inject a cocktail of antigens and adjuvants (substances routinely mixed with the vaccine solution to enhance a vaccine's effectiveness by further stimulating the body's immune response) into my other child's bloodstream to protect against the astronomically small risk of him contracting an extremely rare contagious disease that today is found almost only in the third world.

[NancyD]

I recommend the following book: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations, by Stephanie Cave, MD.

 

Hi, I've asked this question before, but always buried in other posts:

 

Now that you have a PANDAS kid, if you had another baby, would you vaccinate?

 

I have a 15mo who's had some vaccines (up to 6months, I think) but I've refused all vaccines since I found out my older child has PANDAS. I told the dr. at 12 months that I was not necessarily refusing vaccines outright, but asking to delay them... anyway now I have to decide.

 

My husband and I decided to use Sears' alternate vaccine schedule-- which delays and spreads the vaccines out.

 

However I'm not sure I'm even comfortable with this.

 

What would you do?

 

Thanks!