Friday, May 16, 2008

Vaccine Schedule

How many vaccines will your child get? If you give your child all on the recommend list it will be 80! EIGHTY. 80. Back in the 1980's when I was vaccinated I received at total of 25:
2 months first diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis
(DTP) and polio (OPV)
4 months second DTP and OPV
6 months third DTP
15 months Measles-mumps-rubella, fourth DTP,
and third OPV
24 months Hemophilus b polysaccharide vaccine
for Hemophilus influenza type b
4-6 years fifth DTP and fourth OPV vaccines
(I am working under the assumption that I received all recommended vaccines, I do remember drinking the OPV (oral polio, since removed because it was causing polio))
What's wrong with Vaccines?
This is the EIGHTY that your child is recommended to get if s/he was born since 2006:
(at bottom the name of disease the vaccine is for is listed.)

Birth Hep B

1 MONTH Hep B

2 MONTH DTap each shot has 3 vaccines
Hib each shot has 2 vaccines
IPV
PCV each shot has 8 vaccines
Rotavirus

4 MONTH DTaP each shot has 3 vaccines
Hib each shot has 2 vaccines
IPV
PCV each shot has 8 vaccines
Rotavirus

6 MONTH DTaP each shot has 3 vaccines
Flu
Hep B
Hib each shot has 2 vaccines
IPV
PCV each shot has 8 vaccines
Rotavirus

12 MONTH Hep A
HIB each shot has 2 vaccines
MMR each shot has 3 vaccines
PCV each shot has 8 vaccines
Varicella

15 MONTH DTaP

18 MONTH Flu (anually throughout lifetime)
Hep A

4-6 YEAR DTaP each shot has 3 vaccines
IPV
MMR each shot has 3 vaccines

11-12 MCV 4
HPV (for girls although trying to get it approved for boys as well
it is "supposed" to prevent cervical cancer, any irony in that?)
DID YOU KNOW:
You don't HAVE to have your child recieve ANY of the vaccines.
None of the vaccines are REQUIRED to attend school. You only have to sign a waiver.State Exemptions .
You can pick and choose which vaccines you child recieves.
You can DELAY when your child starts receiving the vaccines.
Again I ask do you have ALL the information BEFORE you vaccinate?
You can always choose to wait, you can't ever unvaccinate.
To learn more about the disease visit Vaccine Information
If you have any questions or would like me to personally help you with getting ALL the information you can email me at marci_hansen at yahoo dot com.
IPV - inactivated polio virus
DTaP- Diptheria, Tetanus and pertussis
MMR - Measles, mumps, rubella
Varicella - chicken pox
PCV/Prevnar - pneumococcal conjugate
MCV-4 - meningococcal
HPV - human papilloma virus vaccine
If you don't know what this diseases are, research before your child is vaccinated. Make your decision an EDUCATED one.

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