Posted on June 20, 2008 by Gerald Pugliese
Elizabeth Cohen of CNN has a compiled a list of requests parents have made over vaccinations. Take a look:
Five years ago, Kathye Petters-Armitage's first child received the exact vaccinations on the exact schedule recommended by her pediatrician.
But when she gave birth to her second child, Petters-Armitage had a change of heart.
In the intervening two years, she'd read a lot about concerns that vaccines cause autism and decided to ask her pediatrician to give her new baby fewer shots spread out over a longer period of time.
"I wasn't a hundred percent convinced there was a link between autism and vaccines," said Petters-Armitage, of Santa Clarita, California. "But I didn't want to be one of those parents who found out the hard way."
Pediatricians say they've seen a dramatic increase in the number of parents who, like Petters-Armitage, want to make changes in the vaccine schedule set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics, a schedule once considered by many pediatricians to be sacred and largely immutable.
- Delaying the first hepatitis B shot
- Not doing some shots at all
- Checking for 'titers' before giving booster shots
- Spreading the vaccines out over a longer period of time
- Splitting up combined shots
This is a lightening rod of an issue. Here’s a
DiseaseProof post on the topic:
Mandatory Vaccinations: The Choice Should Be Yours...
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