Homeopathic Vaccinations

[shadylane]

I really want to find out more about this; I live in London, what is a good source for information on this stuff?

Riv - and I've had all sorts of vaccinations and have never had more than one day off work with an illness, and never had a bad reaction to a vaccination.

My colleague who visited Lagos without anti-malarial drugs nearly died and takes about 3 weeks off work every year with the most terrible malaria attacks.

Did you back pack through a Yellow Fever area?

I used the nelsons creams on baby's face when he fell over and got a bad cut- it seemed to help clear it up quick, but luckily he's never had rashes or anything. I think the typhoid vaccinations and the cholera ones have been proven invaluble- the combined vaccinations are the ones that give me cause for concern.

malaria hype

'Each year, there are more than 225 million cases of malaria,killing around 781,000 people' (WHO report). Hype?

Not something to be blase about - though in this case netting and insect repellents are most important and (AFAIK) there is no vaccine.

sorry bad choice of words- by hype i mean the fact it scares a lot of people off travelling with kids

I am intrigued that this thread is not under any topic- how did you start it?

?? its under Children's Health

Ok, first and last post on this topic, as I think guitar has summed up the options as well as they can be, but malaria hype? I hope that is a typo, because 'hype' isn't a word I would use to describe a disease as deadly and unarguably real as malaria.

Ooh, look. X-post with everyone!

It's not just the malarial hype, there's the ridiculous hysteria about Hep A and b, typhoid, polio, etc.

All done to drum up trade for the evil multinational Big Pharma no doubt.

Conventional medicine has been such a blight on humanity. Thank goodness the majority of the population of many developing countries have not been subjected to it.

i ust corrected my bad choice of words. I realise those figures aren't hype. Yes I think I have been helped so thanks MNers.

Yeah Polio, I mean, what's a withered limb between friends? Wouldn't put me off my all inclusive to Goa. People totally overreact to that shit.

You aren't seriously thinking of taking your child to India without anti malaria drugs, are you?

I suggest you ask q person from India whether they think this is w good idea.

Hopefully the information available (rather than "hype") means that people will do their best to become well-informed about risks when travelling with or without children and will take sensible steps to minimise these risks.

We are so fortunate in this country.

OK, fair enough, Shady.

But have a look at the exact and very particular conditions which were suggested as presenting a possible risk for the combined vaccination. IIRR even the discredited A Wakefirld only suggested that it was children with a leaky gut, who had auto-immune conditions in the family AND had been on ABs at birth who were possibly susceptible to bad side effects from the MMR. Now the reaction to that bit of (discredited) research was what some might realsitically call 'hype'.

I know lots of people who travel to India without it. myself don't think I could, as it would completely stress me out worrying about it even if he was fine.

I've just called across the office to my Nigerian colleague (brought up sans conventional medecine) whether he would advise parents to avoid anti-malarial drugs and vaccinations before travelling to his country and his response isn't repeatable.

Lots of people drive without wearing a seatbelt too.

That cream wasn't homeopathic, OP.

Well Nigeria isn't really the same as South India but ta. I won't take risks with my child, it's ust not worth it. I want to know about it, is all.

No-one seems to have mentioned this website yet
www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com/

How would a homeopath treat the symptoms of polio?
You know the bit where the motor neurons that make your muscles work die ?

Riven actually you are wrong. I travelled all through West Africa using Malarone and Doxycycline.

A friend of mine (not sure which tablets she was on) collapsed from cerebral malaria in Cameroon.

You were lucky. Nothing more.

I'm going to sound pofaced now. I honestly think it's insulting to all the women in the developing world who live in a state of constant terror of the diseases that our children are safe from to go on about homeopathic vaccines and stuff. They would do anything to be in the position we are-secur in the knowledge that our children will almost certainly live to grow up.

I think they have enough to worry about without being insulted by those like us who do have a choice. I doubt they'd give a crap that someone wanted to know about alternatives!