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Originally posted by dfens
reply to post by VneZonyDostupa
How are my posts off topic yet?
Originally posted by budaruskie
When I asked the doctor why my son needed a hep b shot when me nor my wife had hep b, she couldn't give me any other answer other than she had vaccinated her children. When I asked our first pediatrician the same question, he gave me the same answer. I told them both, "I didn't ask what you gave your children, I asked why my child needed the vaccination."
Being a businessman myself, I understand that my $100 a couple times a year for checkups where he said my son was perfectly normal is actually costing him money because my time slot could have been filled with a child that who would accept multiple vaccines.
Originally posted by GrinchNoMore
reply to post by VneZonyDostupa
Proving that all vaccines are needed and necessary are anecdotal as well.
Originally posted by VneZonyDostupa
reply to post by liveyourlife
I'm so glad your son recovered well, and good job keeping tabs on his progression. That is ALWAYS key to helping a child get better!
As for Kawasaki's, you're right...it normally is more common in Asian (especially Japanese) populations, usually in young boys of that descent. That being said, we're seeing a strange uptick in caucasian cases in America. I know here in Memphis, we're seeing a pretty big rate, more than you would think would be here, given our Asian population. The Children's Hospital in Boston has a few ideas, mostly linking this immune disorder to a combination of genetic vulnerabilities and environmental exposure to certain cleaning supplies (just a theory, at the moment).
Originally posted by VneZonyDostupa
The reason is because hepatitis B is a life-long, chronic disease that will prematurely end your child's life. If your child is unvaccinated and is ever in the position of needing a blood transfusion (car accident, injury, etc.), they are at risk for contracting HepB, as our current techniques don't eliminate 100% of the virus from donated blood. Additionally, if you have a daughter and she remains unvaccinated, it is very possible for her to become a HepB carrier and then pass it on as an active infection to any fetus she carries in the future
2) As a doctor, we don't want your unvaccinated child sitting in the waiting room with sick kids. Even if your child isn't sick, they could be a carrier. Even vaccinated children are at risk for certain diseases when they are sick, as their immune system is knocked down. Why should I allow your child to potentially pass pertussis to Mr. and Mrs. X's kid just because someone on the internet told you vaccines are bad?