Childhood vaccines...

I know this can be a very "touchy" subject, but I really want as much feedback on this issue as possible. So, I am just informing everyone that I will be posting a thread in the discussion forum about the possible link (or lack of one) between autism and childhood vaccinations. As someone who is set to deliver her first child at any moment now, I would really appreciate people taking part in what I hope is a respectful, helpful discussion.

Thanks! :bgrin2::yes:

Never heard of it...but yeah, post away!

I know this can be a very "touchy" subject, but I really want as much feedback on this issue as possible. So, I am just informing everyone that I will be posting a thread in the discussion forum about the possible link (or lack of one) between autism and childhood vaccinations. As someone who is set to deliver her first child at any moment now, I would really appreciate people taking part in what I hope is a respectful, helpful discussion.

Thanks! :bgrin2::yes:

I think vaccines are extremely important. I was fully immunized by the time I was five and I didn't contract any of the childhood diseases and infections. In my country, a child will not be accepted in public schools without basic vaccines and within the first few years of school, health officials visit the schools and administer vaccines to children who need booster shots or needs to be fully immunized.

Autism is not a common disorder in my country and all children who attend school are immunized, so I wouldn't risk my child contracting an illness and putting other children at risk because of these unfounded reports. I strongly believe that the benefits outweigh the risks by far.

I should have listened to my gut instincts about vaccinating my daughter (6 shots combined into 3) right before her prek-k year. She was normal and healthy. Right after...like the next day she began having symptoms of Type 1 diabetes. I know without a doubt....the vaccinations caused her this disease. Vaccinations take a protien from the virus itself and inject the child with them....Diabetes is a forign protien found in the pancreas that eats away at the insulin producing cells.

If you are to vaccinate your child, wait until they are old enough to have a strong immune system...not when they are infants. Then only get one at a time and never when they are sick.

I hope this helps.


Sarah ~

Diabetes is a forign protien found in the pancreas that eats away at the insulin producing cells.

If you are to vaccinate your child, wait until they are old enough to have a strong immune system...not when they are infants. Then only get one at a time and never when they are sick.


This is absolutely not true!!! Please get your facts straight. Type 1 Diabetes is an auto-immune disorder of UNKNOWN etiology that results in the body's own immune cells attacking the pancreatic islet cells that produce insulin. There is no link between diabetes and vaccines, and the whole notion of being older to have a "stronger immune system" has no biologic basis.

I understand that there are strong feelings in the community about the link between autism and vaccines and I'm certainly sympathetic to families looking for answers... but there have been many many epidemiologic studies on the vaccines and autism that make me quite confident that any association that families are seeing is an unfortunate coincidence of time.

I respect people's need for information and whatever they decide is best for their kids, but I ALWAYS ask their reasoning... because when it is misguided (as in the notion of diabetes caused by vaccines or undeveloped immune systems) I can sometimes help them to understand what is really going on biologically. If not, again, I respect their decision... everyone wants what is right for their child!

Diabetes does not show up in 1 day, and likely your daughter had subtle symptoms for some time. Perhaps the low grade fever your daughter got in response to vaccines "tipped her over the edge" and unmasked her symptoms... but that is the only likely association between the two. In order for symptoms to show, the majority of islet cells need to be destroyed and that takes some time.

Anyway, I hope she is doing well. Diabetes is a challenge, but taken care of correctly, children are likely to do very well!

This sounds like the conversation that I had over this past weekend with my family. My brother and SIL are INSANE about every single new study that comes out. The rest of us are, frankly, sick of it. (My mom is so sick, in fact, that after she put together the entire Thanksgiving dinner, she proudly exclaimed "there's nothing organic in here!"). In response to that, I brought up that old e-mail forward about people who were born before 1970 being surprised that they lived past the age of 12. To which a parent there of a five year old chimed in, "yeah, it's amazing how there are so many more instances of ADD now than there ever were". Hmmm....

I certainly don't blame any parents for looking out for their kids, but I also believe that things should be taken from whence they come. Today, what is it, you shouldn't eat eggs? And yesterday you could?

Who do you believe with this?

I, frankly, don't understand the issue wth immunizations. Are you really better of without them?

Seems like it's just one more thing to add to the mishigas of parenting these days...