What on earth is wrong with vaccinating children ffs?

[poshsinglemum]

I'm sure this has been done before a million times.

A friend of mine who has gone all woo recently isn't vaccinating her dd because some quack gave a lecture on the evils of vaccinating. My ex boyfriends mum was a complete quack/chrystal healer and begged me not to vaccinate against typhoid, encaphalitus, rabies etc when I went to the third world. She gave me a homeopathic kit. Needless to say I got the jabs anyway.

I think that the ''evidence'' not to vaccinate is coming from the woo crew and is fuelled by paranoid conspiracy theories concerning the pharmeceutical industry. I am not completely convinced by the industry myself but I'd rather take a chance on them than my dd getting polio etc.

I just read the MIL thread but I have been meaning to discuss this for ages.

Stata - how would what happens in other countries determine how long your own child's vaccine will provide immunity? They can give you guidelines or an estimate of when you need a booster but you can't look at your child and know whether or not they have immunity still. I actually think you're taking more of a gamble with that knowing that CP can be a much more serious illness in adulthood and the damage it can do in pregnancy.

Why are you asking if I'm denying something I never said?

opv can cause polio outbreaks but there are advantages to using it in resource poor settings - and the outbreaks occur where there is low coverage.

As I said before, vaccines aren't a holy cow, DTP in high mortality settings has great side effects on girls for example and, sure, OPV can cause polio (but still vaccinating outweighs that risk).

What I have a problem with is the building up of false idols, consipracy theories and cherry picking of evidence that underlies this whole anti-vax debate and is typical of medical denialism