Posted by yxibow on March 26, 2005, at 21:52:47
In reply to Re: my son;autism, posted by Spriggy on March 26, 2005, at 21:12:51
I hate to start a controversy but I just have to interject that the heartstrings of many who have children with autism or other serious conditions search, like all of us here, for a reason or cure for their condition.
But the avoidance of vaccinations, just as an example, at
http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/4037stop.htm
which works with the CDC to inform the public about vaccinations, could cause up to a million preventable patient illnesses a year, which is completely preventable today. Sure, there is informed consent, and the theoretical chance that one out of a million people (or even smaller) who were innoculated for influenza could theoretically develop Guillain-Barre. On the other hand, as many as 36,000 people could die of the flu each year.
Sure, I fall into the category of people requesting new dental fillings to be plastic polymer instead of mercury amalgam (although mercury amalgam may actually be stronger), but in fact, that lies on the edge of truth and fiction as well. Same for the Aspartame fallacies about methanol (you'd have to drink an entire supermarket of diet drinks and then you'd probably have kidney failure from excess fluids). I guess the point I'm trying to make is that everyone has the right to believe as they wish, use alternative medicines (I also occasionally dabble in supplements), but there are consequences. And the consequences of not vaccinating children can be serious. We live in a society today free of polio because of intensive vaccination efforts in the last century. Sure, we learned from our mistakes, but lifetime incapacitation from a preventable illness tears my heartstrings as much as those who may feel otherwise.
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