Babies
Vaccine Alternatives
The question doesn't have to be to vaccinate or not. There is a third, less toxic, way.
from the editors of Men's Health
One prominent trend among high-income, college-educated families has
public-health experts scrambling. According to a 2006 study in The
Journal of the American Medical Association, an increasing number of
parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids, opting for state
exemptions instead.
"There's a big battle going on between parents who want to vaccinate
but want to do it more slowly and doctors who are offering only the
all-or-nothing vaccine schedule," says Robert W. Sears, M. D., FAAP,
author of The Vaccine Book. "I believe that this hard-line approach is
partly responsible for our declining vaccination rates." The Southern
California-based doctor has worked for the past 10 years to create
alternative schedules for parents who are concerned about overloading
their children with too many chemical-laden vaccines at once.
The chart in the sidebar details Sears's rating system and compares the
immunization schedule of the Centers for Disease Control with the Sears
Selective schedule, highlighting when it makes sense to be flexible
about vaccinating and when it does not.
Comments
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This is such a blatant plug for a stupid book. I'm so glad I saw this article before I tried to subscribe to this magazine. Please don't blame the doctors trying to protect children for these parents that have just enough education to read crap like Dr Sear's book but not intelligence to read actual medical or science journals. Blame the idiots like Dr Wakefield who scared these parents out of protecting their children, and by extension, the most fragile in our society (tiny babies, for example). I appreciate that Dr Sears isn't a crazy anti-vaxer, but he still feeds into that hysteria. I wish you'd give information on how safe vaccines actually are and how the real danger comes from the diseases they are trying to prevent.
Posted by: Laura on May 15, 3:50pm
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The word "anti-" anything is so misused its absurd. People have become so dumbed down by mainstream media rhetoric that the mere suggestion of an "alternative", a word which appears VERY CLEARLY in the title of this article, is fodder for being labeled "anti-vaccine".
If you read closely you'll see what's being suggested is a tailored vaccination schedule to fit your family/child's needs.
No two human physiologies are EXACTLY the same, thus, if medicine listened to natural physiology it would tailor vaccination schedules for everyone. Unfortunately, only the rich and affluent seem to be able to afford it in today's society.
Does that make them paranoid alluminum-foil wearing conspiracy theorizing crazies?Posted by: Bryan Copeland on June 2, 12:35am
