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My wife and I are expecting our first child. We are both pro-vaccine [trust the professionals!] but she recently met a woman whose kid "instantly changed" afte
by throwawayvaxdad 8y ago
My wife and I are expecting our first child. We are both pro-vaccine [trust the professionals!] but she recently met a woman whose kid "instantly changed" after one particular combo-dosage of several different vaccines. She has since gotten spooked by the NUMBER of vaccinations administered at once. "I'll take our son to the doctor every day to get them one at a time if I have to." I doubt doctors would even entertain this strategy... Does anyone have resources I can read to understand this angle of anti-vaxxers and the pro-science rebuttal?
- benjohnson 8y agoIn my opinion - If your doctor won't indulge the a harmless idea of spreading out your child's immune response to individual vaccines, then it's time to find a new doctor.
- throwawayvaxdad 8y agoFair enough. We haven't spoken to docs about it yet so I was speculating. Any idea if spreading it out is a common request?
- ageitgey 8y agoThis is a pretty common question/request in the US. I'm sure that almost every doctor been asked before and is familiar with the idea and would rather work around a special request than not have the child vaccinated at all. They understand that parents are scared of the unknown.
- sjg007 8y agoYou can spread them out... they think that too many overload the system.. and in kids that it is because their immune system is naive.. But this ignores the innate immunity from mom and that the immune system is a multiprocessing parallel machine.