Fro those who don't know my story my daughter whose 10 and has lyme seems to be in remission.
Recently I've heard from several friends that the docs are adding some more hep A or B vaccines (not sure which ones). I know it's not mandatory yet.
Since she's doing so well do I blow off getting her 10 year check up that was due last October or do I go in and let her get the vaccines?
I believe mercury/heavy metals is a problem for people with lyme. Even though she has no fillings, we're all exposed to it on a daily basis and I don't want her to relapse.
Posted by CaliforniaLyme (Member # 7136) on :
I don't know!!! Some people do seem to relapse after getting flu shots or vaccines... One person locally was almost in remission for years like me and then got shots to go to another country- and BOOM!!! ANother guy- flu shot- same hting- I don't know... it does worry me!! More than Hep A or B- !!
Posted by Lisianthus (Member # 6631) on :
Here is a few things I found.... and NOT GOOD things!
Long-Term Studies have not been done for Carcinogenic, mutagenic potential or fertility impairment, developmental malformation (animal reproduction studies), effects on pregnant woman, fetus, or transmission of toxins to human breast milk
Source: Vaccinations and the Physicians' Desk Reference: Who Will Tell the Parents? by Barbara Flynn, MBA Used with permission.
Always remember parents have choices and rights ... know them!
Epidemic rises in autism have stimulated an active vaccine controversy. Public awareness of mandatory vaccination policy and its relationship to pharmaceutical profits from the government contracts for mass vaccination may reach a pinnacle over the next several years. There exists confusion among the public regarding which vaccines contain mercury and which do not. Thus, it is important that the ingredients in the many vaccines given to children be clearly understood.
The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine contains no ``reported'' mercury. The potential injury from this vaccine may arise from the high titers (ratios determined by titration) of live viruses in the MMR vaccine. Many parents have described their normal child becoming autistic after the MMR vaccination. For example, there was an 18% increase in the reported incidence of autism the first year the MMR vaccine was required for primary school children in Scotland.
Another factor is that the MMR booster is frequently also given on the same day as three other vaccines: the diphtheria and tetanus toxoid with or without acellular pertussis (DTaP or DTP); the haemophilus influenza type b polysaccharide (HbCV); and the oral attenuated polio vaccine (OPV). The DTP and HbCV contain 25 micrograms of mercury (in Thimerosal�) per 0.5 milliliters of vaccines. The MMR and OPV contain live viruses. Thus, a child receives mercury and live-virus vaccines on the same day.
Live viruses are as potentially damaging to immune and nervous system development in a child as are heavy metals such as mercury. In 1972, before the MMR vaccine was formulated, the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp and Dolme cautioned physicians, in the Physicians Desk Reference (PDR), ``do not administer Mumpsvax� with other vaccines but allow at least one month to elapse between elective vaccinations.'' The Mumpsvax� contained 5,000 tissue culture infective doses, 50% of the time (TCID50).
The following year, 1973, Merck Sharp and Dolme began selling the MMR vaccine to the government for use with children. As reported in the 1973 PDR, the MMR vaccine contained 1,000 TCID50 live measles, 5,000 TCID50 live mumps and 1,000 TCID50 live rubella viruses. This vaccine was manufactured as a combination of their Attenuvax�, Mumpsvax� and Meruvax� vaccines, without publication of a safety study regarding the new procedures of giving the Mumpsvax with other vaccines.
In 2003, the Merck vaccine is called the MMR II� and the PDR reports that it contains 20,000 TCID50 live mumps virus (four times as strong as in 1973), in addition to 1,000 live viruses of measles and rubella. There is no published precaution in the PDR regarding its use with other vaccines.
Andrew Wakefield, M.D., expert clinical gastroenterologist, challenges the safety of the MMR. He presented a unifying hypothesis on the etiology of autism, in June 2003, at the Autism One conference held in Chicago. He pointed out that if a child has a conditioning exposure (an exposure to heavy metals, before or after birth, or a genetic predisposition), with additional exposure to infectious agents (live viruses), a disease will appear at the time of a triggering event (often a vaccination).
This hypothesis is based upon well-documented research from other models of disease onset. Thus, it may not be a heavy metal alone or a live virus alone that causes autism; however, the combination of these repeated challenges to a child over time in a preconditioned biological system will predictably cause disease onset at the moment a final triggering event occurs. This trigger can happen as a result of any event that stresses the immune, nervous or hormonal systems beyond their capacity. This injury is to the communication network between the immune, nervous and hormonal systems, which is not fully developed and thus fragile.
There is a compromise between a vaccine's value and its safety. Vaccines contain carriers referred to as adjuvants (Latin: adjuvare, ``to help''). Adjuvants are given repeatedly to children, who have immature immune systems. Vaccines thus contain:
a) A live bacteria or virus related to a contagious disease.
b) A chemical preservative and a tissue fixative that halts chemical reactions of the live micro-organisms that can contaminate the batch through putrefaction and decomposition.
c) Foreign chemical or heavy metal substances to stimulate an immune response.
Adjuvant content and concentration varies from batch to batch, and the FDA does not require low concentrations of an adjuvant to be listed on the package labeling. Mercury and aluminum are key adjuvant ingredients used in most vaccines, often in low concentrations. Adjuvant ingredients are poorly understood for their long-term effects on the body.
R. K. Gupta and colleagues point out in their 1993 article in Vaccine that adjuvants can cause unintentional aberrant signaling within the complex immune system and provoke adverse effects that no one could have anticipated. A vaccine ideally initiates an immune response; however, adjuvants can induce undesired adverse events.
Unexpected boluses (dosages) of vaccines greatly disrupt an infant's networking processes between the immune, nervous and endocrine systems, leaving the child 's immune system with little to no ability to discern ``self'' from ``non-self.'' Children can receive four to five vaccines in one day. No one has studied the impact of this on a child
It is difficult to know the ingredients in a vaccine, since there are many companies making the same vaccine using their own trademarked names, and some may include another company's trademarked ingredient. For example, Thimerosal� is a trademark of Eli Lilly and Company for their adjuvant ingredient, which they sell to a variety of other pharmaceuticals for use in their vaccines. Some pharmaceutical companies have similar vaccines with various brand names--each containing the same toxic metal as another adjuvant.
Aluminum, a common adjuvant, has known toxicity on the kidney, with causal relationships to encephalitis, bone disease, and anemia in susceptible people. The safety, widespread use, and long-term consequences of aluminum in vaccines have not been evaluated in humans. Aluminum commonly used in vaccines was hypothesized as one factor leading to increased allergic diseases in 1978.
Aluminum hydroxide induces inflammatory reactions of immune cells, releasing aberrant signaling proteins. Several vaccines contain aluminum: DTaP, DTP, DTP-HiB, Hep B, HepB-HiB, and tetanus. Mercury and aluminum together can exacerbate metal toxicity in a child and trigger autoimmune reactivity. Stephanie Cave, M.D., postulates that autism rates began to skyrocket after the Hep B and DPT vaccines were widely introduced in 1991.
Mercury is toxic to the central nervous system, the kidneys and the immune system. Thimerosal�, which consists of organic ethyl-mercury and thiosalicylate to prevent bacterial and fungal contamination, is also now reported to induce breaks in the DNA. A single vaccine may not contain toxic levels of Thimerosal�.
However, multiple vaccines given on the same day or a single vaccine derived from the bottom of a Thimerosal�-containing vaccine may be the toxic insult necessary to trigger immuno-neurobiological damage. The FDA stated in 1999 that exposing infants to cumulative doses of ethyl-mercury may not be safe. In 2001, the FDA acknowledged that in the first six months of life children may be receiving higher mercury levels through vaccinations than was safe as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
There are approximately 35 vaccines given to a child, according to the following schedule and containing mercury (noted by *) or aluminum: (noted by ++) or both.
Birth - Hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine *++
2 mos - Diphtheria and tetanus toxoids with pertussis*++ (DTP), OPV (oral attenuated polio vaccine), HbCV (haemophilus influenza type b polysaccharide vaccine)* and Hep B*++
4 mos - Diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis (DTaP)*++, OPV and HbCV*
6 mos - Hep B*++ and OPV
15 mos - MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), DTP*++, OPV, HbCV*
4-6 yrs - MMR booster, DTP*++, OPV
11-12 yrs - Adult tetanus, to be repeated every ten years.
A total of 237.5 micrograms of mercury before the age of two years old exceeds EPA's safe levels. A single daily exposure of 62.5 micrograms of mercury at four to six months of age is 41 times above safety standards of 1.51 micrograms of mercury for a child weighing 10 kg (22 lbs.). In 1999, the Public Health Safety (PHS) agencies, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and pharmaceutical vaccine manufacturers agreed Thimerosal� should be reduced in vaccines.
However, it remains in vaccines such as the DTaP, DTwP, DT, Td, TT, many of the HiB, HepB called Engerix-B�, rabies vaccine adsorbed, meningococcal, pneumococcal, and all influenza vaccines. It is likely then that mercury and aluminum are contained in the DTaP, HiB and possible the HepB vaccines.
There are no safe levels of a poison for a child. There is a growing consensus among parents, clinicians and researchers who are treating autistic children with complementary and alternative medicines that cumulative toxicity occurs with each vaccine, until the body cannot excrete the toxins and begins to express the toxicity through neurodevelopmental damage, including autism spectrum disorders, mental retardation and speech disorders.
In June, 2003 a carefully documented study was published associating cumulative Thimerosal� levels with neurodevelopmental disorders after analyzing CDC public records. The authors, Mark Geier and David Geier, gained permission to study the CDC data base called Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), which contains data from tens of millions of vaccines.
They compared Thimerosal�-containing vaccines with non-Thimerosal�-containing DTaP vaccines. The study demonstrated that Thimerosal� was statistically associated with higher incidences of autism, mental retardation, and speech disorders. Males were found to have greater rates of autism and speech disorders than did females in the study.
A child has not developed the biochemistry to remove metals effectively from his/her body. Adjuvants enhance and potentially exacerbate damage caused by vaccines to the nervous, immune and endocrine systems. It is our community responsibility to re-evaluate the safety or potential harm of the vaccines to which we are exposing children.
``Every parent deserves to be given truthful, unbiased information about diseases, vaccine content, and adverse reactions. A parent should be allowed to make a voluntary informed decision,'' said Dawn Richardson, of Parents Requesting Open Vaccination Education (PROVE), in September 2000.
Recommendations to parents by pediatricians serving autistic-spectrum children include:
1) Give hepatitis B vaccine when your child is older than two years old; preferably when he/she is a teenager.
2) Provide varicella vaccine at ten to twelve years of age if your child hasn't already become immune to chicken pox.
3) Check your child's vaccine titers before giving booster shots.
4) Monitor your child for adverse effects from a vaccine and report these immediately to your doctor or the FDA.
5) Keep your child well supplemented with vitamin A, homeopathic growth factors and anti-oxidants.
6) Separate out the MMR into three components, with measles at 15 months, mumps at 21 months and rubella at 27 months. Do not give live viral vaccines to children who are immuno-delayed or who have low growth patterns (from the gestation period up to six months of age).
7) Certainly, do not give your child a vaccine if there is a known existing allergy to yeast (in hepatitis B vaccine), eggs (in MMR vaccine) or neomycin (in MMR and varicella vaccines).
Barbara Brewitt, Ph.D., graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Washington School of Medicine, with post-doctoral research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is an internationally recognized researcher using molecular biology, homeopathy, and clinical studies to publish and educate about homeopathic growth factors especially related to HIV infection. Her current work focuses on bringing homeopathic growth factor medicines into the home to help people integrate their immune, nervous and endocrine systems for optimal aging with healthy longevity.
She has specific growth factor products proven safe and non-toxic that slow chronic problems of rapid aging, including HIV, diabetes and neuronal damage such as in autism. Information and contact numbers are available via www.biomedcomm.com or call 888-637-3516. _________________________________________________