Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Why you may want to wait until after your child is age 1 to vaccinate

Here is a quote from the VAERS site regarding the data:

"More than 10 million vaccines per year are given to children less than 1 year old, usually between 2 and 6 months of age. At this age, infants are at greatest risk for certain medical adverse events, including high fevers, seizures, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Some infants will experience these medical events shortly after a vaccination by coincidence."

Why don't doctors tell us this. Why don't they tell us that breast feeding will help reduce the risk of infectious diseases. The good news is that if you didn't vaccinate you baby and have not had caught any diseases, the risk of side effects is less after 6 months of age or is that really the case. This is something to consider for those that may want to vaccinate after 6 months of age.

This is a very interesting statistical analysis of the VAERS data. Here are some of the finds based on VAERS data:

The more doses the greater chance of hospitalization

For each dose you give an infant (under 1 year of age) there is an increase in the likelihood of hospitalization by approximately 1.9%. Just two doses is about a 10% risk of being hospitalized. The CDC recommends easily 25 vaccinations (even more if you count doses) by age 1 according to the official recommendations.If we assume the trend continues in a linear fashion as suggested below, then with 25 vaccinations the chance of hospitalization would be 53%. Why doesn't a doctor say that before giving or recommending a vaccination. To be fair, this does NOT mean that there is a 53% chance that your infant will be hospitalized if you follow the CDC recommendation. All this means is that of the cases that are reported for infants under age 1 that of the cases reported by age one 53% of the reports would include hospitalizations. In actuality there is not enough data over for over 8 vaccinations by age 1 to support this analysis, but it is very interesting and verifiable for up to eight vaccinations.



Waiting until your child is older than age 1 could reduce the risk of hospitalization


Notice after 6 months of age it is not really as linear as before. This may imply that the CDC is correct saying that the infants are most at risk of hospitalization from side effects of a vaccine up to 6 months.

Death

Similar findings were found for death potentially caused by vaccines:

"...an increased mortality rate associated with 5–8 vaccines relative to 1–4 vaccines; (d) a decreased mortality rate associated with children aged 0.5 to <1 1.4="" a="" aged="" and="" e="" infant="" male-to-female="" mortality="" ratio.="" relative="" span="" those="" to="" year=""> "

This means the more vaccines the higher risk of death and waiting until after 6 months of age to vaccinate may also reduce the risk of death from the side effects of a vaccine.

Underreporting of issue

The report says: 
"Since VAERS is a passive system, it is inherently subject to underreporting. For example, a confidential study conducted by Connaught Laboratories, a vaccine manufacturer, indicated that “a fifty-fold underreporting of adverse events” is likely. According to David Kessler, former commissioner of the FDA, “only about one percent of serious events [adverse drug reactions] are reported.” Less serious vaccine adverse events (e.g., swelling, fever, or redness at the vaccination site) are more underreported than more serious vaccine adverse events (e.g., hospitalizations and death). The current analysis made no attempt to quantify underreporting due to age, type of adverse event, or other factor since only relative trends were utilized."


Legal Notice:

I am not a doctor or a statistician. I simply am interpreting the report to the best of my ability and trying to put it in a more consumable form for the average person. This should not be used as medical advice. Please read the study and CDC sites if you have any questions. 



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