Does the vaccine protect against. Modern epidemics: why vaccine refusal has become a national security issue and how to smash anti-vaccine arguments

14.07.2020

From the first second of birth, a person is exposed to the influence of a huge number of microorganisms, including pathogens. In the 18th century, in order to strengthen the immune system and protect humans from disease, vaccinations were invented. However, the question of the benefits and harms of vaccinations is still controversial. In this article, we will look at what the immune system is, what immunity is, and what is the role of vaccinations in the work of our immunity.

Consider what the immune system and immunity are

The immune system Is a collection of organs, tissues and cells that provide protection and control over the internal constancy of the body's environment. It includes the central organs - the red bone marrow and thymus (thymus), peripheral organs - the spleen, lymph nodes and vessels, intestinal Peyer's patches, appendix, tonsils and adenoids.

The immune system is scattered throughout the human body, and this allows it to control the entire body. The main function of the immune system is to maintain the genetic constancy of the internal environment of the body (homeostasis).

The body's immunity to various infectious agents (viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, helminths), as well as to tissues and substances with foreign antigenic properties, (for example, poisons of plant and animal origin), is called immunity.

A malfunction of the immune system can lead to autoimmune processes, when the cells of the immune system do not recognize "friends" and "aliens", and damage the cells of their own body, which leads to such serious diseases as: systemic lupus erythematosus, thyroiditis, diffuse toxic goiter, diffuse sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis.

The "cradle" of the immune system is red bone marrow, which is located in the body of tubular, flat and spongy bones. Stem cells are formed in the red bone marrow, which give rise to all forms of blood and lymph cells.

How cells of the immune system work

The main cells of the immune system are B- and T-lymphocytesand phagocytes.

Lymphocytes - white blood cells, which are a type of white blood cell. Lymphocytes are the main cells of the immune system... B-lymphocytes provide humoral immunity (produce antibodies that attack foreign substances), T-lymphocytes provide cellular immunity (they directly attack foreign substances).

There are several types of T-lymphocytes:

T-killers (T-killers) - destroy infected, tumor, mutated, aging cells of the body.
T-helpers (T - helpers) - help other cells in the fight against "strangers". They stimulate the production of antibodies through antigen recognition and activation of the corresponding B-lymphocyte.
T-suppressors (T-suppressors) - reduce the level of antibody production. If the immune system is not suppressed after the antigen is neutralized, then its own immune cells will destroy healthy cells of the body, which will lead to the development of autoimmune disorders.

The development of B and T lymphocytes occurs in the red bone marrow. Their precursor is the lymphoid stem cell. Some of the stem cells in the red bone marrow are converted into B-lymphocytes, the other part of the cells leaves the bone marrow and enters another central organ of the immune system - thymus, where the maturation and differentiation of T-lymphocytes occurs. In simple terms, the organs of the central immune system are the "kindergarten" where B- and T-lymocytes receive initial training. Since in the future, along the circulatory and lymphatic systems, lymphocytes migrate to the lymph nodes, spleen and other peripheral organs, where their further training takes place.

The largest ones will be the first to know about the penetration of the "stranger" through the natural barriers (skin and mucous membranes) from leukocytes - phagocytes-macrophages.

The role of phagocyte cells in the immune system was first discovered by the Russian scientist I.I. Mechnikov in 1882. Cells that are capable of absorbing and digesting foreign substances have been named phagocytes, and the phenomenon itself received the name phagocytosis.

In the process of phagocytosis, phagocytes-macrophages release active substances – cytokinesthat can attract the cells of the immune system to work - T and B lymphocytes... Thereby increasing the number of lymphocyte cells. Lymphocytes are smaller than macrophages, more mobile, able to penetrate through the cell wall and into the intercellular space. T-lymphocytes are able to distinguish between individual microbes, remember and determine whether the body has met with them before. They also help B-lymphocytes to increase synthesis antibodies (proteins-immunoglobulins)which, in turn, neutralize antigens (foreign substances), bind them into harmless complexes, which are subsequently destroyed by macrophages.

It takes time to identify an antigen (previously unknown to the body) and produce enough antibodies. During this period, the person develops symptoms of the disease. With subsequent infection with the same infection, the body begins to produce the necessary antibodies, which cause a quick immune response to the re-introduction of the "alien". Thanks to this, illness and recovery are much faster.

Types of natural immunity

Natural immunity is innate and acquired.

From the moment of birth, nature itself has inherent human immunity to many diseases, which is carried out thanks to innate immunityinherited from parents with ready-made antibodies. The body receives antibodies from the mother at the very beginning of its development through the placenta. The main transmission of antibodies occurs in the last weeks of pregnancy. In the future, the child receives ready-made antibodies along with breast milk.

Acquired immunity occurs after the transfer of diseases and persists for a long time or lifelong.

Artificial immunity and vaccines

Artificial (passive) the immunity obtained with the introduction of serum is considered, and which acts for a short time.

Serum contains ready-made antibodies to a specific pathogen and is administered to an infected person (for example, against tetanus, rabies, tick-borne encephalitis).

For a long time it was believed that the immune system can be prepared for a meeting with a future "enemy" through the introduction of vaccines, believing that for this it is enough to introduce into the human body "killed" or "weakened" pathogens, and the person will become insensitive to it for some time ... Such immunity is called artificial (active): it is temporary. That is why, during a person's life, they are prescribed repeated vaccinations (revaccinations).

Vaccines (from Latin vacca - cow) are preparations obtained from killed or weakened microorganisms and their metabolic products, designed to produce antibodies to pathogens.

According to all medical canons only healthy children can be vaccinated,however, in practice this is rarely observed , and even weakened children are vaccinated.

About how the idea of \u200b\u200bvaccination has changed, writes immunologist G.B. Kirillicheva: “Initially, vaccination was considered as a preventive aid in case of obvious danger or trouble. Vaccination was carried out according to epidemiological indications. Susceptible and contact persons were vaccinated. Susceptible! Not everything. Currently, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe purpose of vaccines has been distorted. From means of emergency prevention, vaccines have become means of mass planned use. Both susceptible and resistant categories of people are exposed to vaccinations ”.

The vaccines include auxiliary components, the most common of which are: antibiotics, merthiolate (organomercury salt), phenol, formalin, aluminum hydroxide, Tween-80. You can learn more about the components of vaccines.

For the entire period of the existence of vaccines, no one has proved that even a small content of poisons in vaccines is completely harmless to a living organism.

It should also be borne in mind that the child's body is a hundred times more sensitive to toxins and poisons, and the system of decomposition and removal of poisons from the body of a newborn is not yet fully formed, unlike an adult. This means that even in small quantities, this poison can cause irreparable harm to the child.

As a result, so many poisons fall on the undeveloped immune system of the newborn, which leads to serious malfunctions, first of all, in the functioning of the immune and nervous systems, and then manifests itself in the form of post-vaccination complications.

Here are just some of the post-vaccination complications included in the official list of August 2, 1999 N 885:

In practice, it is not easy to prove that this complication arose precisely after the vaccination, because when we are vaccinated, the doctors do not take responsibility for its result - they simply provide us with medical assistance, which in our country is voluntary.

In parallel with the increase in the number of vaccinations in the world, the number of childhood diseases is growing, such as: autism, cerebral palsy, leukemia, diabetes mellitus. Scientists and doctors around the world are increasingly confirming the connection of such serious diseases with vaccinations. For example, the Russian scientist Nikolai Levashov spoke at one of his meetings with readers about the connection between vaccinations and autism. You can watch this video.

How vaccinations generally affect immunity

Here is what a number of experts write about immunity and vaccinations:

“Natural diseases that occur in a normal, healthy child help to“ debug ”and train the immune system.

The pathogens that enter the body with the vaccine bypass the mucous membranes and immediately enter the bloodstream. The organism is evolutionarily not ready for such a development of events.

In order to cope with an infection that has not been neutralized at the level of mucous membranes and for the fight against which the body was not prepared in advance by the received chemical signals, it is forced to consume many times more lymphocytes than when it happens in a natural disease.

So, according to available estimates, if natural mumps (mumps) distracts 3-7% of the total number of lymphocytes, then the one that occurs after vaccination - the one that is called "lung" - 30-70%. Ten times more! "(A. Kotok "Vaccinations in questions and answers for thinking parents")

Excerpt from letter to Bioethics Committee RAS oncoimmunologist prof. V.V. Gorodilova:

“For a long time, one should seriously think about the growing childhood leukemia, which Academician L. A. Zilber spoke about in the early 60s, about the imbalanced immune system as a result of an unquenchable (including)“ post-vaccination state ”that begins with us in maternity hospitals and actively continuing in childhood, adolescence and adolescence.

It has been proven that in infants the immune system is still immature, that it begins to function within a certain "norm" after 6 months, and before that the body had not yet adapted, had not matured.

Excessive antibodies cannot be accumulated infinitely - their excess leads to autoimmune processes. Hence the "rejuvenated" autoimmune diseases in young people: rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, diseases of the kidneys, thyroid gland, disorders of the nervous, endocrine and vascular systems, numerous oncological diseases, and among them is childhood leukemia.

The immune system does not withstand the "planned onslaught", it breaks down, its functions are perverted, it "strays off the course" prescribed by nature, and a person becomes more vulnerable to colds, allergens, cancer ... Allergies are growing among babies - are there now such children who would not suffer from allergic diseases ?! It is well known that in the first half of the year, children suffer from gastrointestinal dystrophy and changes in the skin caused by food allergens of various etiologies. From the second half of the year, syndromes from the respiratory tract join - asthmatic bronchitis (by the way, one of the complications of DPT, ADS-M, ADS). Well, by the age of 3-4, clinical symptoms of pollen sensitization, etc., etc. begin to appear. - publications on these issues are innumerable.

The immune system is a delicate balanced mechanism and, like all other systems, is prone to breakdown. As a result of constant irritation - stimulation with vaccines, it, instead of protecting the body, destroys its own cells due to the accumulation of antibodies, due to autoimmune processes and functional changes in the properties of cells.

Physiological, natural aging is a process of gradual fading, wilting of all parts of the immune system. Vaccines, on the other hand, accelerate, spur the process of "consumption" of lymphocytes, artificially leading the human body to premature aging, hence senile diseases in young people... In oncology, the imbalance between the speed of the immune response and tumor growth is fundamental. The growth of oncological disease outstrips the rate of multiplication of lymphoid cells reacting to it, which are also aimed at combating the incessantly incoming antigens - vaccines.

I am absolutely convinced that all oncology begins with a negative restructuring of the immune system with the subsequent suppression of its functions as a result of "overload". It is with congenital and acquired immunodeficiencies that more frequent development of malignant neoplasms is noted ... "

Vaccinations are voluntary!

Parents should be aware that, according to Russian legislation, they have every right to both consent and refuse vaccinations.

In accordance with the Federal Law "On the Fundamentals of Health Protection of Citizens of the Russian Federation" of November 21, 2011 N 323-FZ: in accordance with Article 20. Informed voluntary consent to medical intervention and to refuse medical intervention.

And in accordance with the Federal Law "On Immunization of Infectious Diseases" of September 17, 1998 N 157-FZ: according to Article 5. Citizens in the implementation of immunization have the right to: refusal of preventive vaccinations.

Our state gives a choice - to vaccinate a child or not, and refusal to vaccinate does not entail consequences in the form of inadmissibility to kindergarten, school, institute. If such violations are observed, then they contradict the Constitution of our country. Since Chapter 2 of Article 43 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation states:

Everyone has the right to education.
The availability and free of charge of preschool, basic general and secondary vocational education in state or municipal educational institutions and enterprises are guaranteed.

Very often, parents rely on the opinion of doctors, not wanting to study the topic of vaccinations in more depth on their own: if they say to vaccinate, then it is necessary. However, the responsibility for the fate of the child is not removed from the parents. It is important to understand that any vaccination is not just a "ukolchik", but a real invasion of human immunity, which has its own consequences, which is especially fraught at a time when immunity has not yet been fully formed. Professor virologist G.P. Chervonskaya writes the following in this regard: “If you save your child from vaccination at least up to 5 years old, I bow to you. You will give an opportunity to develop the natural defenses of the body. "

Having weighed all the pros and cons, the decision is equal, as well as the right to vaccinate or not vaccinate their child should remain with the parents.

What mechanisms protect a person from infections?

Until the infant's immune system has formed itself, an important defense mechanism is maternal antibodies, which are transmitted to the baby's body through the placenta and through breast milk. The longer the mother breastfeeds the baby, the longer it will be protected. Maternal antibodies protect newborns and infants from infectious diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus, measles, rubella, chickenpox, polio and many other ailments for a long time.

As evidence, we will give an example of observation by obstetrician-gynecologist Zh.S. Sokolova: "The best" vaccine "against all infectious diseases is mother's milk. It contains all the antibodies that can protect and cope with any infection, and if the baby is still tempered, his immunity will become even stronger without any vaccinations. As convincing evidence, I cannot but cite information that under my supervision there are 1,640 children (as of 2002), whom their parents did not vaccinate. These children not only do not get sick, but develop differently, they are calmer and more balanced, less irritable and non-aggressive. "

An important protective mechanism against various kinds of infections is genetics... Not all people are equally susceptible to different diseases.

Virologist G.P. Chervonskaya in her book "Vaccinations: Myths and Reality" writes the following about the susceptibility of people to infectious diseases:

“The majority of people are immune to infectious diseases. genetically... For example, 99% of people are immune to tuberculosis, 99.5-99.9% are immune to poliomyelitis, 80-85% to diphtheria, and 85-90% to influenza.
Thoughtless vaccination weakens the natural immunity, irrevocably changes our genetic code and leads to diseases, including those previously unknown. Let me remind you what is known to experts all over the world, I emphasize - spetsialistam (!): 1% of all mankind are susceptible to tuberculosis (8), to poliomyelitis - 0.1–0.5 % (8.13) (according to Smorodintsev and WHO), to diphtheria - 15–20% (3.5, 14, 15), to flu - also no more than 10–15%, etc.
In other words, someone is already born immune to tuberculosis (and there are a significant majority of them!), Someone will never get diphtheria (and there are also an overwhelming majority of them!), The third category of citizens is resistant to poliomyelitis (there are ONEs and not necessarily paralytic form (8,13), the majority never get sick with flu, rubella, etc., etc. "

Do not forget about natural defenses: it is acquired when a person is ill with an illness. We have all heard about such diseases as chickenpox, measles, mumps, rubella. The people also call these diseases "childhood", and it is no coincidence, because it is in childhood that a person most often gets sick with them. Transferring these states in a rather mild form, a person acquires lifelong immunity and the ability to pass antibodies to future generations. Not so long ago, there was, but somewhere there is still a practice, when parents specially bring their children to sick peers, so that the child would get sick in childhood and develop natural immunity. It happens that a child does not get sick at all from such visits: this suggests that he is not genetically susceptible to this disease.

In the history of mankind, facts are known when, with the improvement of sanitary and hygienic conditions of life, mankind got rid of many diseases. For example, on the territory of European countries, vaccines were not invented against such ailments as cholera, plague, typhoid fever, anthrax, dysentery, but these diseases were defeated soon as water pipes and sewerage systems appeared, when they began to chlorinate water, pasteurize milk, when the quality improved. food products. With the improvement of sanitary and hygienic conditions, morbidity and mortality from diphtheria, measles, whooping cough began to decline even decades before the advent of vaccines against these diseases. The elimination of smallpox in 1980 all over the world took place due to the observance of strict sanitary measures, and not due to universal vaccination, as is commonly believed, since during the years of smallpox vaccination, vaccinated people were still sick and dying.

As for Russia, from time immemorial there have been baths on its territory, which protected and protected people from various kinds of diseases. And the life expectancy of people then was much longer than in the last century of the existence of vaccinations.

Helping immunity

First of all, it is necessary to give up bad habits, stay in the fresh air as often as possible, eat well, give preference not to artificial vitamins, but to natural ones. Particularly useful for immunity are antioxidants - vitamins A, C, E and vitamins of group B. For good immune function, trace elements are important - iron, iodine, potassium, magnesium and zinc. Full sleep is also important, since it is during sleep that the body best gets rid of toxins and toxins, moderate exercise and drinking clean water (1.5-2 liters per day), visiting a bath - all this improves the metabolic process and speeds up the process removing heavy metals and toxins from our body. Supporting a favorable psychological environment in the family (positive emotions, an atmosphere of mutual understanding, love and support) is also a powerful defense against adverse influences from the outside world, including infections and diseases, since any stress has a destructive effect on human immunity.

New software "Luch-Nik"

Luch-Nik software is the embodiment of the knowledge of Academician N.V. Levashova: this technology is based on the generator of primary matters. The physical body of a person is only the visible part of what a person is. In addition to the physical body, a person has a soul, which is also called an entity or biofield. More details about what an essence (soul) is and how it works can be found in the books of N.V. Levashov's "The Last Appeal to Humanity" and "Essence and Mind".

The physically dense body and essence are a single system. The food we consume is broken down by processing into primary matter, necessary for us in order to nourish our essence and body - this is what gives us the necessary vital energy. And the quality of primary matters depends on what gets into our body, and our well-being and further development depends on this. If a person eats food of low quality, and moreover, if it contains trans fats or genetically modified foods (GMOs), then the qualitative composition of matters formed during the breakdown of food will be low. It can be much more deplorable if you use alcohol and drugs in addition ... Nikolai Levashov wrote in his books that alcohol contains a powerful ethereal charge, which subsequently destroys the structures of a person's essence, or his biofield, reveals the natural energy protection from the inside and makes a person more exposed to negative external influences. The daily dose of neutralization of poisons and toxins depends on how healthy the human body is and on its individual characteristics.

It is not a tablet that operates in Luch-Nick, but a generator attached to this tablet. A kind of artificial intelligence without a physical shell. "Luch-Nick" scans the human biofield, reveals in it (in essence) those processes that were the cause of the disturbances manifested in the physical organism, and affects these processes with flows of primary matters.

The body may simply not get its high-quality materials due to slagging, soreness of organs and poor-quality nutrition. By independently defining the vector of exposure, taking into account the functions selected by the user, "Luch-Nick" helps to restore the structures of cells, organs, body systems, while increasing the resistance of the protective field (psi-field) of a person to the penetration of pathogenic microflora into the body.

What to include in Luch-Nik software

In order to get rid of many poisons and toxins, including those obtained with vaccinations, it is necessary to normalize the work of the excretory systems. In the section "SYSTEMS OF THE ORGANISM" there are functions for this: lymphatic; digestive; respiratory; leather; urinary.

Lymphatic system - cleanses our body, through it a huge amount of foreign substances and poisons is removed. The main filtering element of the lymphatic system is the lymph nodes, which over time can be blocked by foreign proteins, heavy metals and toxins. If the lymph node is blocked, then it does not allow fluid to pass through: the body is not properly cleansed, the lymph node swells, which leads to lymphadenitis... It is from the work of the lymphatic system that a person's immunity largely depends. If the lymph nodes are clogged, then the body cannot pass purulent lymph through the lymph node, it begins to "throw" it out - on the skin. And this manifests itself, for example, in the form atopic dermatitis, neurodermatitis.

Along with the lymphatic, it is advisable to include immune system, and with them muscular and nervous system, since the lymph comes into motion due to muscle contractions, and the nervous system participates in the supply of nerve impulses.

Digestive system - removes a huge amount of toxins and toxins through the intestines, therefore most of the immune cells are located in the gastrointestinal tract.

Respiratory system - helps to remove toxins and toxins in the form of phlegm and mucus.

Skin and urinary system- ensure the daily release of toxins and waste products from the body.

Brain - regulates all vital functions of our body. The strength of the biofield (or psi-field) generated by the brain directly affects the functioning of the immune system. Strong energy protection creates conditions for suppressing pathogenic microflora, while with a decrease in the quality of brain functions, a person's tendency to viral and other inflammatory processes increases many times.

In the section "SYSTEMS OF THE ORGANISM" you can turn on simultaneously: lymphatic, immune, nervous and endocrine systems, actively providing homeostasis, i.e. constancy of the internal environment.

Viruses, bacteria and fungi surround a person from birth and enter the body in a variety of ways. With weakened protective barriers, they get inside a person and in the process of their life they release toxins and toxins that have an adverse effect on our genetics. Therefore, in the section "CORRECTION OF CAUSES OF DAMAGE" it is advisable to include such functions as: viruses, bacteria, fungi, cell waste, toxins, correction of genetics, correction of external influences, correction of the biofield. It is also advisable to include the function heavy metals: they are found in the environment and enter the human body with food, inhaled air, water, including with vaccinations. The accumulation of heavy metals in the body has a depressing effect on the functioning of the immune and other systems.

In the section “PREVENTION. ACUTE CONDITIONS "it makes sense to include lymphadenitis, which was written above, as well as stress, because stress also leads to a weakening of the protective functions of the body. It is advisable to include prophylaxis associated with malfunctions of the immune system - allergies, tonsillitis, acute respiratory infections, otitis media.

Using the menu section “PREVENTION. GENERAL ”you can influence different types of processes in essence, respectively, manifesting themselves in different ways at the level of the physical body. Therefore, for different violations, you can select different sets of functions, for example:

For disorders of an autoimmune nature : diabetes mellitus, diffuse toxic goiter (Basedow's disease), chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (chronic inflammation of the thyroid gland), Sjogren's disease (connective tissue disease);

For skin diseases : dermatitis, neurodermatitis, psoriasis... There is also an opportunity to work with disorders related to the respiratory system, central nervous system, digestive system, bones and joints: bronchial asthma, tracheobronchitis, tuberculosis, meningitis (s), multiple sclerosis, poliomyelitis, autism, mercury poisoning, Crohn's disease (inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract), pancreatitis, hepatitis (s), arthritis (s), osteomyelitisand other prophylaxis.

Measles epidemic in Europe. According to WHO, the disease has already affected 28 European countries: most of the cases were infected as a result of local transmission. Vaccination is considered the only effective remedy against measles. We talked about vaccinations with children's infectious disease specialist Irina Fridman and talk about how they protect against diseases, what reaction to a vaccine is considered pathological, and how many vaccinations can be given in one day.

Irina Fridman

ph.D., Doctor of the Department of Specific Prevention of Infectious Diseases of the Children's Scientific and Clinical Center for Infectious Diseases of the FMBA

What vaccinations are free?

In Russia, there is a national immunization schedule - this is an accepted vaccination scheme to protect against the most common infections that can be extremely difficult in young children. This is not to say that this is a tough document - according to the law, parents have a choice: they can vaccinate a child, or they can refuse vaccinations, taking responsibility for it.

Vaccinations that are included in the national calendar: BCG (vaccine against tuberculosis), vaccine against hepatitis B, pneumococcus, poliomyelitis, measles, mumps and rubella, DPT (vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis), as well as an annual flu vaccine. Hemophilus influenza vaccine is included in the national calendar for risk groups, but this does not mean that any healthy child does not need it, it is just that the state is ready to pay for it only for children with health problems.

What off-schedule vaccinations are worth getting?

Additional vaccinations that can be done at will (and for a fee) are, for example, vaccines against chickenpox, rotavirus infection, tick-borne encephalitis, hepatitis A, meningococcal infection.

Are vaccines 100% protective?

Any vaccination does not result in absolute protection against infection. A vaccinated child can get the infection in a milder form, without complications. No one guarantees that he will never get sick, it all depends on the effectiveness of the immune system: in some, antibodies persist for a very long time, while in others they are quickly lost. However, most vaccines promote the formation of memory immune cells, which lead to an adequate response in the body. When they meet again with a microbe, they begin to work quickly and respond well to contact.

Why get vaccinated if, theoretically, the child will normally survive the disease?

Unfortunately, no one is immune from the severe course of the disease with complications. Please weigh: do you need a serious course with complication or the theoretical possibility of an easy course? It turns out that this is a personal choice of each parent: "Only I can decide what I want to do to the child and what not." This is wrong, and in some states a different tactic has now been adopted: the child is recommended to appear for vaccination at a certain time - the nurse measures his temperature and vaccinates him (the doctor does not even touch on this issue).

We have a slightly different approach: in order to be admitted to vaccination, sometimes it is necessary to view a certain number of tests (since some parents conduct laboratory examinations without a doctor's recommendation), examine the child, measure the temperature and only then admit it to vaccination.

How often do you manage to convince your parents?

I share my knowledge about vaccinations, world experience, scientific data, the benefits of vaccination, and I leave it to them to make a decision. Forcing them to say, “You are doing wrong,” has no effect. In principle, most parents still come for vaccinations, even those whose children have serious health problems.

Before the appointment, parents should study the information about the disease from which they plan to vaccinate the child, and find out what the consequences of this disease may be: look through pictures on the Internet, listen, for example, how a patient who has not been vaccinated against whooping cough coughs. Weigh everything: are such consequences necessary or is it planned to carry out the prevention of these infections.

Do I need to donate blood and urine before vaccination?

Not. There are no documents regulating the delivery of tests before each vaccination. It is necessary to take tests only for certain groups of patients who have blood problems. The main thing before vaccination is somatic health for at least two weeks, the absence of sick people in the environment and the desire to be vaccinated. If the patient was sick with some kind of serious infection: bronchitis, pneumonia, was treated with antibiotics for a long time, then the interval should be a month. And after a banal ARVI of a non-protracted nature (even with a temperature of 39), two weeks are enough.

Do I need to prescribe antihistamines during vaccination?

There is no need to prescribe antihistamines before vaccination. In some case, they are prescribed for allergy sufferers, but this experience is still preserved only with us. Doctors in most European countries, even when vaccinating allergy sufferers, do not prescribe routine antihistamines.

What is normal reaction after vaccination?

Normal vaccine reactions that can occur in about 10% of children include: high fever, local manifestations (redness, swelling, swelling). For example, after vaccination against measles, rubella, mumps, from the fourth to the 15th day, bark and rubella-like rash, enlargement of the salivary glands, mild catarrhal manifestations - cough, sore throat, a slight runny nose may appear. All this is short-term, most often not accompanied by intoxication, the child feels well enough, the temperature decreases after antipyretic drugs.

And which one is pathological?

Swelling of more than eight centimeters at the vaccination site is considered a pathological allergic local reaction to the vaccine: in a six-month-old child, it occupies almost the entire thigh. There are common allergic reactions in the form of a rash, but this occurs extremely rarely and also requires certain actions on the part of doctors: parents do not always remember that the child went to his birthday on the day of vaccination and there he first tried, for example, a chocolate-covered straw covered with sesame seeds.

Are the complications always caused by the vaccine administered?

Any conditions that occur after vaccination require investigation: the doctor must determine whether this is due to the injected vaccine or not. And in most cases it is not related. Our experience shows that children who come to us with a diagnosis of a pathological reaction to vaccination, in 90% of cases, have some kind of disease: acute respiratory viral infections, acute intestinal infections, newly diagnosed kidney problems.

If there is no reaction after the administration of the vaccine, this does not mean that antibodies are not produced: it all depends on the characteristics of the human immune system. Someone even reacts to mild vaccines with an increase in temperature, while others tolerate any vaccination asymptomatically.

What are the most dangerous consequences of the vaccine introduction?

The most severe reaction to vaccination in the world is anaphylactic shock, an acute allergic reaction to the components of the vaccine. Such an acute allergic reaction occurs within the first 30 minutes after the administration of the vaccine, maximum within two hours. Therefore, for at least the first 30 minutes, any vaccinated person should be in the institution and sit next to the office where the vaccination was carried out. Each vaccination room has a kit for first aid, including for anaphylactic shock.

Anaphylactic shock to vaccines is an extremely rare situation, one case per 100,000 doses used. It happens not only from vaccines, anything can become a provocateur: candy, medicines, strawberries, sausages, eggs - you can eat pastries that contain an egg and "give out" anaphylactic shock. We are not immune from this.

Are autism and cerebral palsy related to vaccinations?

Autism, cerebral palsy, organic lesions of the central nervous system are not associated with vaccination. We have a huge number of patients with organic lesions of the central nervous system and cerebral palsy, and they are not vaccinated.

Are mercury and aluminum in vaccines dangerous?

It has been proven that the microadditives contained in vaccines do not have any effect on the vaccinated body. What a child receives during mass vaccination from additional substances is a small fraction of what we get in life. If we talk about aluminum hydroxide, then it is contained in the air in large cities with factories and plants: parents do not think that every day, taking their little child for a walk, they breathe this air. Or, for example, in sea fish, which we gladly eat, there is a huge amount of mercury - in particular, in tuna, which is very common in European countries.

How many vaccinations can I get in one day?

As much as you like. They are done at a distance of two to three centimeters from each other, in the thigh or shoulder. The antigenic load increases somewhat, but it is not so high. There are three thousand antigens in the DTP vaccine of domestic production. In modern multicomponent vaccines (for example, "Pentaxime") - about 25-27. This is several times less than in DPT, which a child at three months perceives quite adequately.

Is it possible to combine live and "killed" vaccines?

Yes, live and “killed” vaccines can be put on the same day, only the observation in the post-vaccination period will be longer in this case: the reaction to inactivated vaccines can be in the first three days, to live vaccines - from the fourth to the 15th day. Therefore, the temperature will need to be monitored for a little longer.

The only thing is that you cannot combine the BCG vaccination with anything, it is always done separately.

What is the difference between live and killed polio vaccine? What's better?

WHO has a program to move towards full use of inactivated polio vaccines. They want to cancel the live vaccine in order to stop the circulation of the vaccine strain poliovirus, since the live vaccine contains an attenuated poliovirus. Those vaccinated with this vaccine shed poliovirus in the feces for two months and can be a source of infection.

The implementation of this program, at least in Russia, is still quite difficult: we do not have enough doses to inoculate the entire population. Now we have a combined use scheme: two inactivated vaccines, the third and subsequent ones are live. The first two introductions fully protect against paralytic forms of poliomyelitis and are provided free of charge according to the national calendar. If the parents want, they can continue to vaccinate the child with an inactivated vaccine, and not a live one. The efficiency of such a scheme is high.

What is the difference between the domestic DPT and the foreign vaccine "Pentaxim"?

The domestic vaccine contains a whole-cell pertussis component and is considered a vaccine, after which fever occurs more frequently. "Pentaxim" also contains acellular pertussis component, it is softer, in addition, it protects against five infections at once. Infanrix Hexa protects against six infections. Due to the fact that foreign vaccines have a different composition for the pertussis component, their effectiveness is somewhat lower. If DPT has five to seven years of effective protection against whooping cough, then, for example, Infanrix Hexa has four to six years.

Can we assume that after the first dose of DPT ("Pentaxim") the child is already protected?

No you can not! The fact is that different infections require a different number of vaccinations. If we are talking about preventing whooping cough, then four vaccinations are needed for long-term protection. After the first, after a couple of weeks, antibodies will develop, but they may not persist for long, so additional administration is required. As for diphtheria and tetanus, two vaccinations with revaccination after a year are enough - this gives good protection. Long-term protection against polio requires four shots. So it cannot be said that after one introduction, protection will not be developed, but it will be short-lived.

There are no restrictions on the sequence of vaccine administration (if the patient has no contraindications): you can start with the vaccine that is most relevant today.

Why get vaccinated against chickenpox if children are not seriously ill with it?

Yes, until now 90% of children with chickenpox tolerate it quite smoothly. But chickenpox is dangerous due to bacterial complications that can occur: severe itching leads to scratching, infection, and this situation may require the appointment of antibiotic therapy.

One of the serious complications of chickenpox is chickenpox encephalitis. Most often it occurs in children of nine to ten years old, those who did not get sick in early childhood. When children graduate from kindergarten and go to school, parents are well aware that with age the possibility of a more severe course of chickenpox increases, and they decide to vaccinate their children.

Unfortunately, until the chickenpox vaccine is introduced into the national calendar and there is no mass vaccination of children, we will see seasonal outbreaks of the disease.

What happens if people stop vaccinating their children?

In Russia, the vaccination rate of the population is more than 95–98%, but as soon as this percentage decreases, we can see outbreaks of any disease. A recent example is the measles epidemic in Europe and Ukraine. Now we have limited cases of the disease, they do not spread much, but nevertheless adults and children get sick with measles. Most of the patients were not vaccinated, and some of them lost protection.

In the 90s, the last outbreak of diphtheria occurred: there was a restructuring, many refused to vaccinate. In our institute, many departments have been redesigned to combat diphtheria. Unfortunately, the children died. Those doctors who worked then said: in the evening the patient was admitted, they injected serum, and in the morning you come - and he is not. After that, there were no such large outbreaks, thank God.

Prof. Robert S. Mendelssohn, pediatrician (USA)

East West Journal, November 1984

Since I have written about the dangers of mass vaccinations before, I know this is an idea that you are likely to find difficult to grasp. Vaccines are marketed so skillfully and vigorously that many parents regard them as a miracle that has eradicated many once feared diseases. Accordingly, it would be reckless courage to oppose them. For a pediatrician, attacking what has become the bread and butter of pediatric practice is tantamount to a priest's refusal to acknowledge the pope's sinlessness.

Knowing all this, I can only hope that you will put your preconceived notions away while I talk about my attitude towards vaccines.

Most of what you have been taught to believe about vaccinations is simply not true. Not only do I have bad feelings about vaccines, but if I were to follow my inner convictions in writing this chapter, I would have to convince you to reject all vaccinations for your child. I will not do this because parents in nearly half of the states have lost the right to make choices. Doctors, not politicians, have successfully lobbied laws to force parents to vaccinate their children as a prerequisite for their admission to school.

However, even in these states, you can convince your pediatrician to remove the pertussis component from the DPT (DTP - A.K.) shot. This vaccine, the most dangerous of all, is the subject of such a debate that many doctors, just hearing about it, become nervous, anticipating lawsuits. And they should be nervous, because recently a child in Chicago who suffered from pertussis vaccination received $ 5.5 million in compensation. If your doctor is in that frame of mind, use it to your advantage, as your child's health is at stake.

Although I prescribed vaccinations myself in my early years of practice, I became an adamant opponent of mass vaccinations because of the myriad dangers associated with them. This topic is so complex and vast that it deserves an entire book. Accordingly, here I should be content with just summarizing my objections to the fanatical zeal with which pediatricians blindly shoot foreign proteins into your child's body, unaware of the harm they can bring.

Here are the main reasons for my doubts:

1. There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass vaccinations are responsible for the disappearance of any childhood diseases. It is true that certain childhood illnesses that were once widespread have diminished or disappeared with the introduction of vaccinations. No one knows why this happened, although better living conditions may be the reason. If vaccinations were responsible for the reduction or disappearance of these diseases in the United States, then one might ask why they disappeared at the same time in Europe, where there was no mass vaccination.

2. The Salk vaccine is widely believed to be responsible for ending the polio epidemics that plagued American children in the 1940s and 1950s. If so, why did these epidemics end in Europe, where polio vaccine was not widely used? It is pertinent to ask why the Sabin virus vaccine is still given to children, while Jonas Salk, the pioneer of the polio vaccine, pointed out that Sabin's vaccine is now responsible for most of the polio cases detected. The continued imposition of this vaccine on children is an irrational behavior of doctors, confirming my view that doctors constantly repeat their mistakes. In addition to the history of the polio vaccine, we can recall the reluctance of doctors to stop vaccination against smallpox, which for three decades has been the only cause of death from the disease after the disease itself disappeared. Think about it! Within thirty years, children have died from smallpox vaccination, although the threat of illness is no longer there.

3. There are significant risks associated with each vaccination, as well as numerous contraindications that make vaccinations dangerous for your child. However, doctors prescribe them on a routine basis, usually without warning parents about the dangers and without checking if the vaccine is contraindicated for the child. No child should be vaccinated without such a preliminary check, but whole armies of children are lined up in polyclinics and vaccinated, and parents do not ask a single question!

4. While the dangers of immediate reactions to vaccinations are well known (but rarely warned about them), no one knows the long-term consequences of introducing foreign proteins into your child's body. Even more shocking is the fact that no one makes a purposeful attempt to find out!

5. There is a growing suspicion that vaccinations against relatively harmless childhood illnesses may be responsible for the surge in autoimmune diseases since the introduction of mass vaccinations. These are such terrible diseases as cancer, leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and Guillain-Barré syndrome. The mechanism of autoimmune diseases can be simplified by the inability of the body's defense system to distinguish between foreign agents and its own tissues, as a result of which the body begins to destroy itself. Have we traded mumps and measles for cancer and leukemia?

I emphasize my concern here, because you probably won't hear this from your pediatrician. A resolution was proposed at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Forum in 1982 to ensure that parents are informed about the benefits and risks of vaccinations. The resolution insisted that “the AARP should prepare, in clear and understandable language, information that a prudent parent would want to read about the benefits and risks of routine vaccinations, the risk of diseases that can be prevented by vaccines, and about the most common adverse reactions to vaccines and treatments. them". Probably, the assembled doctors did not consider that "prudent parents" could be allowed access to information of this kind, since they rejected the resolution!

The heated debate among doctors around vaccinations has not escaped the attention of the media. More and more parents refuse to vaccinate their children and face legal consequences of this step. Parents whose children have become disabled for life after vaccinations do not take it as a blow of fate, but are filing lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers and doctors who prescribed vaccinations. Some companies have stopped producing vaccines, and the rest are expanding the list of contraindications from year to year. Interestingly, since vaccinations are the reason for parents' repeated visits to doctors, which is the bread and butter of the latter, pediatricians continue to defend vaccinations until death.

As a parent, only you can decide whether to refuse the vaccine or take the risk of agreeing to give it to your child. Before your child gets vaccinated, let me give you the facts about the potential risks and benefits of vaccinations that your pediatrician recommends and protects. If you decide that you do not want your child to be vaccinated, and you are obligated by the laws of your state, write to me and I can probably advise you on what to do to restore your freedom of choice.

Piggy

Piggy is a relatively harmless viral disease that usually occurs in childhood. In this disease, one or both of the submandibular salivary glands, located in front and below the ears, swell. Typical symptoms are fever, lack of appetite, headache, and back pain. Swelling of the glands begins in 2-3 days and disappears on the 6-7th day of illness. However, at first one gland may be affected, and after 10-12 days the other. In any case, mumps develops lifelong immunity.

Mumps does not require treatment. If your child becomes infected with mumps, offer to stay in bed for 2-3 days, give him soft foods and as much liquid as possible. Ice bags can be applied to swollen glands. If the headaches are severe, some whiskey or acetaminophen can be given. Give 10 drops of whiskey to a young child and half a tablespoon to an older child. The dose can be repeated after an hour, if necessary.

Most children get the mumps vaccine along with the measles and rubella vaccine in the trivial vaccine (MMR) at about 15 months of age. Pediatricians defend this vaccine, arguing that although mumps is not a serious childhood illness, if children are not immune, they can get it in adulthood. In this case, inflammation of the testicles, orchitis, may develop. In rare cases, this becomes the cause of infertility.

If infertility as a result of orchitis was a serious threat, and the vaccine against mumps ensured that adult men did not get it, I would be among those doctors who insist on the vaccine. But I am not among them, because their arguments are meaningless. Orchitis rarely leads to infertility, and even when it does, it is usually limited to one testicle, while the ability of the second testicle to produce sperm can double the world's population. And that is not all. Nobody knows if the immunity caused by the mumps vaccine actually continues into adulthood. Accordingly, the question remains whether your child, who was vaccinated against mumps at 15 months of age and escaped it in childhood, will suffer more serious consequences of this disease in adulthood.

You will not find pediatricians promoting this information, but the side effects of this vaccine can be severe. In some children, the vaccine causes allergic reactions such as rashes, itching and bruising. Symptoms of central nervous system involvement may include febrile seizures, unilateral sensory deafness, and encephalitis. True, the risk of this is minimal, but why should your child be exposed to it at all - really in order to prevent a harmless childhood disease with the risk of developing it with more serious consequences in adulthood?

Measles

Measles, a contagious viral disease transmitted by contact with an object that was previously used by the patient. Initially, there is a feeling of fatigue, mild fever, headache and back pain. Then redness of the eyes and photophobia appear. The temperature rises for 3-4 days and reaches 40 0 \u200b\u200bC. Sometimes in the mouth you can see small white dots; A small, pink rash appears below the hairline and behind the ears, then spreads to the entire body within 36 hours. The rash may appear immediately, but it disappears gradually, in 3-4 days. Measles is contagious for 7-8 days, starting 3-4 days before the rash appears. Accordingly, if any of your children get measles, others are likely to get it as well before you know the first one has.

No treatment is required except for rest, plenty of fluids to prevent possible dehydration from heat, and cornstarch baths to relieve itching. If the child suffers from photophobia, the windows should be covered. Contrary to popular myth, there is no danger of blindness.

The measles vaccine is another component of the MMR vaccine that children receive at an early age. Doctors insist that this vaccine is necessary to prevent measles encephalitis, which can occur in one in 1000 cases. With decades of experience in treating measles and having interviewed many pediatricians on several occasions, I checked the statistics again and concluded that a 1: 1000 ratio may be right for malnourished children living in poverty, but for children from families with average and above average income, if we exclude simple drowsiness from measles itself, the frequency of true encephalitis is more likely 1:10 000 or even 1: 100 000.

Having scared you with the unlikely likelihood of measles encephalitis, your doctor is unlikely to share with you information about the dangers of the vaccine he uses to prevent it. The use of measles vaccine is associated with encephalopathy hazards and other complications, such as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, which causes irreversible and fatal brain damage.

Other (sometimes fatal) complications associated with measles vaccine include ataxia (an inability to coordinate muscle activity), mental retardation, aseptic meningitis, convulsions, and hemiparesis (paralysis of one side of the body). The secondary complications of the vaccine can be even more frightening. These include encephalitis, juvenile diabetes, and multiple sclerosis.

I would consider the risks associated with the vaccine unacceptable even if there was strong evidence that the vaccine is effective. But they are not there either. The sharp decline in measles incidence occurred long before the vaccine was introduced. In 1958, there were about 800,000 measles cases in the United States, but by 1962 - the year before the vaccine was introduced - that number had dropped by 300,000. Over the next four years, as children were vaccinated with the ineffective and now canceled killed virus vaccine, that number fell by another 300,000. In 1900, there were 13.3 measles deaths per 100,000 population. By 1955, before the first measles vaccination, the death rate had dropped by 97.7%, to 0.03 deaths per 100,000.

By themselves, these numbers are compelling evidence that measles disappeared even before the vaccine was introduced. If you don't think of them as such, think about this: In a study in 30 states, more than half of children with measles were vaccinated appropriately. Moreover, according to WHO, the chances of contracting measles are about 15 times higher for those vaccinated against it.

"So why," you might ask, "in the face of these facts, doctors continue to vaccinate?" The answer may be one that happened in California fourteen years ago, after the measles vaccine was introduced. There was a severe measles epidemic in Los Angeles at the time, and parents were forced to vaccinate all children 6 months and older, despite a Public Health Service warning that vaccinating children under one year of age was pointless and potentially dangerous. ... Although Los Angeles doctors responded by vaccinating every child they could get their hands on, several doctors familiar with the problem of immune system damage and the dangers of "slow viruses" chose not to vaccinate their own babies. Unlike those parents who were not informed about this, they found that the "slow viruses" found in all live vaccines and, in particular, in the measles vaccine, can hide in human tissues for years. Later, they may manifest as encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, or become potential seeds for the development and growth of cancer.

One Los Angeles doctor who refused to vaccinate his seven-month-old child said: “I am concerned that not only does the vaccine virus provide very little protection against measles, but it may remain in the body in ways that we do not know much about. ". This anxiety about his own child, however, did not stop him from vaccinating the children of his patients. "As a parent, I had the luxury of choice for my child. As a doctor ... by law and in accordance with the requirements of the profession, I am obliged to accept recommendations ..."

Perhaps the time has come when non-physician parents will have the privilege of choice, which only doctors and their children now enjoy?

Rubella

Rubella is a safe childhood disease that does not require treatment.

The initial symptoms are fever and runny nose, accompanied by a sore throat. It becomes clear to you that we are talking about a different disease, and not about the common cold, when a rash appears on the face that spreads to the arms and body. The elements of the rash do not fuse, as is the case with measles the rash disappears in 2-3 days. The patient needs to rest and drink, no other treatment is required.

The threat of rubella lies in the possibility of causing harm to the fetus if a woman becomes infected with it in the first trimester of pregnancy. Fear of this is used to justify giving all children, boys and girls, the rubella vaccine in the trivial vaccine (MMR). The merit of this vaccine is questionable for the same reasons that were described above for mumps. There is no need to protect children from harmless disease, and the side effects of the vaccine are completely unacceptable when it comes to the good of the child. These include arthritis, arthralgias (joint pain), and polyneuritis, which is manifested by pain, numbness, or tingling sensation in the peripheral nerves. Although these symptoms are usually temporary, they can last for months and do not appear until two months after vaccination. Because of this, parents may not associate the symptoms that appear with the vaccine.

The biggest danger of rubella vaccine is that it can leave expectant mothers without natural immunity from the disease. By preventing rubella in childhood, vaccination can increase the risk of rubella in childbearing years. My doubts on this issue are shared by many doctors. A group of doctors in Connecticut, led by two leading epidemiologists, have virtually been able to cross rubella off their list of legally required vaccinations.

Study after study shows that many women who were vaccinated against rubella in childhood do not have blood-tested immunity in adulthood. Other tests demonstrate a high percentage of ineffectiveness of both the trivaccine as a whole and the vaccines that are included in it, separately. Finally, the crucial question, which has not yet been answered, is vaccine immunity lasting as long as immunity after natural disease? A high percentage of children have no evidence of immunity in blood tests taken only 4-5 years after rubella vaccination.

Most women today do not have natural immunity due to vaccination. If their immunity from vaccination disappears, they can contract rubella during pregnancy and thus harm their unborn children.

As a pretty skeptical person, I have always believed that the surest way to find out what people believe is to watch what they do, rather than listen to what they have to say. If the main risk of rubella is not to the child, but to the fetus, then pregnant women should be protected from the disease by their obstetricians. However, published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) research has shown in California that over 90 % of women obstetricians-gynecologists refused to get themselves this vaccine. If doctors themselves are afraid of this vaccine, then why should there be a law requiring you and other parents to allow your children to administer it?

Whooping cough

Pertussis is a highly contagious bacterial disease usually transmitted by air from an infected person.

The incubation period is 7 to 14 days. The initial symptoms of the disease are indistinguishable from those of a common cold: runny nose, sneezing, apathy or lack of appetite, slight watery eyes, and sometimes mild fever. As the disease progresses, a severe cough develops in the evening. Then he appears during the day. Within 7-10 days from the onset of the first symptoms, the cough becomes paroxysmal (attacks). A child may have up to 12 cough coughs after each breath, his face darkens and takes on a bluish or purple hue. Each whooping cough attack ends with an inhalation with a characteristic sound. Vomiting is often an additional symptom of the disease.

Whooping cough can affect any age group, but more than half of those who get sick are younger than two years old. The disease can be dangerous and even life threatening, especially in infants. Those infected can pass the disease on to others for about a month after the first symptoms appear, so it is important that they be isolated, especially from other children.

If your child develops whooping cough, there is no specific treatment that your doctor can offer or any other that you can do at home. The child should rest in comfort and isolation. Cough medications are used, but they rarely really help, and therefore I do not recommend them. However, if a child develops whooping cough, you should consult a doctor as hospitalization may be required. The main dangers of the disease are pneumonia and exhaustion from coughing. It is known that very young children can have rib fractures due to severe coughing fits.

Pertussis vaccination is carried out together with the diphtheria and tetanus vaccinations as part of the DPT. Although this vaccine has been in use for decades, it is one of the most controversial. Doubts remain about its effectiveness, and many doctors share my concern that the potential harm of vaccine side effects may exceed its claimed effectiveness.

Prof. Gordon T. Stewart, chair of the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, is one of the most outspoken critics of the pertussis vaccine. He says he supported the vaccine until 1974, but then saw outbreaks of whooping cough among vaccinated children. "Now in Glasgow," he says, "30% of all cases of whooping cough occurs in the vaccinated population. This leads me to believe that the vaccine is not effective."

As with other infectious diseases, mortality began to decline before the vaccine became available. The vaccine was first used in 1936, and mortality has declined steadily since 1900 or earlier. According to Stewart, "the reduction in pertussis mortality was 80% before the vaccine was introduced." He shares my opinion that the key factor in the pertussis story was not the vaccine, but the improvement in the living conditions of potential sufferers.

Common side effects of pertussis vaccine recognized by JAMA are fever, screaming attacks, shock and local skin manifestations such as sweating, redness of the skin, pain. Lesser known but more serious effects include convulsions and irreversible brain damage leading to mental retardation. This vaccine also binds tosudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) ... In 1978-79, as the childhood vaccination program expanded, eight cases of SIDS were reported immediately following routine DPT vaccinations.

The estimate of the number of those protected from the disease among the vaccinated from non-varied from 50 to 80%. According to the JAMA, the United States has an average of 1,000-3,000 pertussis cases and 5-20 deaths annually.

Diphtheria

Although it was one of the most dangerous diseases in the days of our grandmothers, today diphtheria has almost disappeared. Only 5 cases were reported in the United States in 1980. Most doctors insist that the reduction was due to vaccinations, but there is ample evidence that the incidence of diphtheria was declining even before vaccines became available.

Diphtheria is an extremely contagious infectious disease transmitted by coughing or sneezing of an infected person, as well as touching things that were previously touched by the sick. The incubation period of the disease is from 2 to 5 days, and the first symptoms are sore throat, headache, nausea, cough and fever up to 39-40 0 C. As the disease progresses, off-white plaques appear in the throat and tonsils. They cause swelling of the throat and larynx, which makes swallowing difficult and, in severe cases, can block the airways to the point of death by suffocation. The disease requires the attention of a doctor; treatment is carried out with antibiotics - penicillin or erythromycin.

Your child is no more likely to get diphtheria today than it is to be bitten by a cobra. However, millions of children are vaccinated against it at the age of 2, 4, 6 and 8 months, and then boosted when they go to school. This happens despite the fact that rarely recorded outbreaks of diphtheria occur in the vaccinated environment as often as among the unvaccinated. During an outbreak of diphtheria in Chicago in 1969, the city health department reported that 4 out of 16 cases had the full range of vaccinations, and 5 more received one or more doses of the vaccine. Two of these five had evidence of complete immunity to the disease. According to another report, in one in three deaths and fourteen out of twenty-three cases during another diphtheria outbreak, the victims were fully vaccinated.

Examples like these undermine the argument that the disappearance of diphtheria or other childhood illnesses can be attributed to vaccinations. If this were the case, how can vaccine advocates explain these facts? Only half of the states have legal requirements for vaccinations against infectious diseases, and the percentage of children vaccinated varies from state to state. As a result, tens of thousands, if not millions of children in areas where medical services are limited, and there are almost no pediatricians at all, have not received vaccinations against infectious diseases, and therefore must be exposed to them. However, the incidence of infectious diseases does not have any correlation with the fact that there are laws in a particular state regarding compulsory vaccinations.

In light of the rarity of this disease, the availability of effective antibiotic treatment, the dubious effectiveness of the vaccine, the annual multi-million dollar waste of funds for this vaccine, the ever-present potential for severe long-term effects of a particular vaccine, I find it impossible to defend mass vaccinations against diphtheria. I admit that the significant harm of vaccines has not yet been precisely established, but this does not mean that it does not exist. In the half century that vaccines have been used, no not a single research to establish the long-term harm of vaccinations.

Chicken pox

This is my favorite childhood illness, firstly because it is relatively harmless and, secondly, because no pharmaceutical manufacturer has succeeded in developing a vaccine. The second reason, however, may be short-lived, as there are already reports that a vaccine will soon appear ( now such a vaccine, called "Varivax", is already on the US vaccination calendar and is actively promoted on the market around the world. Cm. H. Butler - A.K.).

Chickenpox is a viral infectious disease that is very common in children. The first symptoms of the disease are usually mild fever, headache, back pain, and lack of appetite.

After a day or two, small red spots appear, which after a few hours enlarge and turn into blisters. Eventually, a scab will form and will disappear within a week or two. The development of the disease is accompanied by severe itching, and one should try to prevent the child from scratching the itchy skin. Calamine lotions or cornstarch baths can help relieve itching.

There is no need to seek medical help for chickenpox. All you need to do is stay in bed and drink as much as possible to prevent dehydration from the heat.

The incubation period of chickenpox is 2-3 weeks, the disease is contagious within two weeks; the risk of infection appears two days after the onset of the rash. The child should be isolated for this period of time.

Tuberculosis

Parents should have the right to assume that the majority do, that the research conducted by their doctor is providing accurate results.

Tuberculin skin test ( mantoux test - A.K.) is by no means a medical procedure of this kind. Even the American Academy of Pediatrics, which rarely negatively evaluates its members' day-to-day practices, issued a critical statement regarding this test. According to this statement, " several recent studies have raised doubts about the sensitivity of some tuberculosis screening tests. A conference convened by the Bureau of Biologics recommended that manufacturers that each batch be tested on fifty known positive patients to ensure that the manufactured product has sufficient capacity to detect active TB in any test subject. However, since many tests are not conducted in a double-blind, randomized fashion and include many concurrent skin tests (i.e. there is the possibility of suppressing the reaction), they are difficult to interpret.".

The statement ends as follows: "Tuberculosis screening tests are imperfect and clinicians should be aware that both false-positive and false-negative results are possible."

In short, your child may have tuberculosis even with a negative tuberculin test. Or he may not have TB despite testing positive. With many doctors, this can lead to dire consequences. It is almost certain that if this happens to your child, the latter will undergo unnecessary and dangerous single or multiple chest x-rays. In addition, the doctor may prescribe dangerous medications for him - for example, isoniazid for many months, "to prevent the development of tuberculosis." And the American Medical Association (AMA) admits that doctors are indiscriminate and too often prescribe isoniazid. This is a shame because this drug has a long list of adverse reactions from the nervous, gastrointestinal, hematopoietic and endocrine systems, and also affects the bone marrow and skin. It should not be overlooked that your child may become a pariah among the neighbors because of a deep-rooted fear of this infectious disease.

I am convinced that the possible consequences of a positive tuberculin skin test are much more dangerous than the disease itself. I believe that parents should reject this test until they know for sure that their child has been in contact with a patient with tuberculosis.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

The horror of the possibility of waking up in the morning and finding your child dead in the crib lurks in the minds of many parents. Medical science has yet to find the cause of SIDS, but the most popular hypothesis among researchers is damage to the central nervous system, which results in the suppression of the act of voluntary breathing.

This is a logical explanation, but it leaves the question unanswered: what causes the dysfunction of the central nervous system? My suspicion, shared by many in the profession, is that the 10,000 cases of SIDS reported annually in the United States are due to one or more of the vaccinations children receive. Pertussis vaccine - the most likely culprit, but others may be responsible.

Dr. William Torch of the University of Nevada School of Medicine has published a post in which he suggests that DPT vaccination may be responsible for SIDS. He found that two-thirds of the 103 children who died from SIDS received the vaccine within three weeks of their death, with many dying within 24 hours of being vaccinated. He argues that this is no coincidence, concluding that "causality is confirmed" in at least some of the sudden deaths and DPT shots. The same vaccine has been attributed to deaths in Tennessee. Following the intervention of the US Surgeon General, vaccine manufacturers withdrew all unused doses of this vaccine series.

Expectant mothers who are concerned about SIDS should remember the importance of breastfeeding to prevent certain diseases. There is evidence that breastfed babies are less prone to allergies, respiratory diseases, gastroenteritis, hypokalemia, obesity, multiple sclerosis and SIDS. One scientific study on SIDS concludes, "Breastfeeding can be viewed as a single barrier on the myriad of pathways leading to SIDS."

Polio

None of those who lived in the 1940s. and saw photos of children on ventilators and the President of the United States, confined to a wheelchair by this terrible disease, and who was forbidden to use public beaches for fear of contracting polio, cannot forget the fear that reigned then. Polio is virtually non-existent today, but fear remains, and with it the belief that polio has been eradicated by vaccinations. This is not surprising when you consider the powerful vaccine promotion campaign; the fact is that no scientific study has proven that vaccination caused polio to disappear. As noted earlier, it also disappeared in parts of the world where the vaccine was not widely used.

It is important for parents of this generation to have evidence that mass vaccination against polio is the cause of the majority of cases of the disease. In September 1977, Jonas Salk, who developed the killed polio vaccine, along with other scientists, confirmed this. He said that most of the few cases reported in the United States since 1970 were likely a byproduct of a live polio vaccine routinely used in the United States.

Notably, there is an ongoing debate among immunologists about the relative risks of using killed versus live viruses. Proponents of killed virus vaccines argue that the presence of live viruses is responsible for polio cases. Those who support the use of live virus vaccines argue that killed viruses do not provide sufficient protection and, in fact, increase the vaccine's susceptibility to disease.

This provides me with a rare and convenient opportunity to be neutral. I believe both sides are right, and using both vaccines increases, rather than decreases, the chances of your child getting polio.

In short, it turns out that the most effective way to protect your child from polio is to make sure he is not vaccinated against it!

It's no secret that modern parents in relation to are divided into two camps. Some sincerely believe in the benefit of vaccination and consider it a salvation from most dangerous known to mankind, while others are convinced that over time it turns into a real disaster and can provoke the development of very sad consequences in the child's body.

The adsorbed tetanus-pertussis-diphtheria vaccine is designed to develop immunity against three infectious diseases at once (, and). For the formation of a long-term immune response, the serum must be administered to the child four times during the first 1.5 years of his life.

DTP vaccine

Skeptics do not believe in the safety of this drug, based on the results of its testing, according to which the risk of development increases after administration of the solution.

In addition, papillomatosis vaccination is a new immune drug, the effect of which on the body remains not fully understood.

The safest vaccines

Today, inactivated and killed vaccines are considered the safest, which do not contain weakened, but live pathogens of infectious diseases.

It is these solutions that are characterized by low reactogenicity and rarely lead to the development of post-vaccination complications.

For example, the risk of post-vaccination poliomyelitis after administration is zero, compared to cases of administration, when the disease is diagnosed with a frequency of 1: 40,000.

Common myths about the dangers of immunization

Modern immunologists deny the harm of vaccination and insist on the mass vaccination of all children, which, in their opinion, will eradicate a number of the most dangerous infections around the globe.

Experts refer to the most common myths about the dangers of immunization:

the myth that vaccinations cause complications in every second vaccinated baby (the frequency of the effects of immunization is 1 case in several thousand children);
the myth of the harmful effect on the liver (in fact, the vaccine is not capable of provoking a violation of the structure or functionality of the organ, but, on the contrary, protects it from the penetration of viral agents);
the myth about the connection of vaccines with the development of autism (there is no scientific evidence for this belief of many);
the myth that natural immunity is better than grafted immune protection (both variants of the immune response provide long-term and effective protection of the child's body from infectious diseases).