The National Institute of Health finally declared formaldehyde a carcinogen yesterday after years of dragging its feet. This is the 12th cancer list released by the NIH through its subsidiary program, The National Toxicology Program.
Formaldehyde is a very common chemical used in manufacturing and the risk of exposure to consumers is high due to its pervasiveness. That “new car” smell is really formaldehyde as is the smell in new homes. It’s a frequent ingredient in many if not most cosmetics.
Workers in hair salons, mortuaries, particle board and plywood manufacturing typically have the most occupational exposure to formaldehyde. Embalmers in mortuaries suffer from leukemia at higher rates than normal as well as cancer of the nasal passages and mouth.
Evidence of Formaldehyde as a Carcinogen is High
John Bucher, associate director of the National Toxicology Program, said that evidence of formaldehyde’s carcinogenicity is strong. Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer at the American Cancer Society said that “all a reasonable person can do is manage their exposure and decrease it to as little as possible.”
Not surprisingly, The American Chemistry Council, a trade association representing companies that make and use formaldehyde, rejected the new report with the statement “we are very concerned that politics may have hijacked the scientific process.”
Formaldehyde Used in Vaccines
As with other toxins such as mercury, this new government warning concerning formaldehyde is contradictory and confusing.
How could the government recommend limiting exposure to formaldehyde as much as possible and yet at the same time recommend injecting your child with frequent doses of it via 25 recommended vaccines by the age of 6 months, 36 vaccines by the age of 18 months, 43 vaccines by the age of 4-6 years old and a whopping 68 vaccines by the ages of 11-12 years old?
Could one cause of the increasing cases of childhood cancers be due to the use of formaldehyde in vaccines? This question was conveniently left out of the government’s report, but this pressing question arises nonetheless.
Oh, and if you’re worried about cancer for yourself, remember that the CDC recommends 141 vaccines for adults! Considering that 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women are striken with cancer in their lifetime and this is predicted to double by 2050, it seems wise to skip the shots, doesn’t it?
It seems that smart parents will avoid vaccines for their children based on the government’s warnings about formaldehyde and utilize the benefits of homeopathic nosodes as a safe, nontoxic alternative should the rare situation of a localized epidemic ever arise.
The government may be talking out of both sides of its mouth with regard to the dangers of formaldehyde, but parents can’t afford to be confused about its dangers where the health of their children is concerned.
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist.com
Sources: New York Times, Warnings Issued for Formaldehyde and Styrene
Vaccine Information Coalition, Amount of Vaccines
Do You Know What’s In a Vaccine?
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For those who’d like to read the report
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/?objectid=72016262-BDB7-CEBA-FA60E922B18C2540
I’ve always felt bad that my kids are behind on their vaccinations, I was ashamed to tell people that 2 of my 3 kids have NEVER had a shot and that my 4 year old is 3 years behind. Ya…I’m over that now!
I glad I never did it and I never will!!
And you will be the first one wondering why your child is sick or dies when an outbreak occurs. Thanks for spreading disease.
Is FEAR the only tool in your toolbox? Where’s the data to support your assertion that not vaccinating children spreads disease? The holy grail for this argument is herd immunity which is a myth when applied to vaccinated people. Herd immunity ONLY applies to NATURAL immunity.
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“Stupidity is Bliss”, LOVE the name! It suits you very well!
Gee, Sarah, funny thing about that. Fear seems to the be only thing in YOUR toolbox. You certainly don’t have any data. Not data that stands up to any scrutiny whatsoever, that is. Check the facts, people, the “studies” you references are hardly studies at all. For example, the study you quoted on vaccines containing mercury/thimersol? Well, that wasn’t a study. It was one woman (who is anti-vaccine, by the way – so hardly unbiased), who paid $500 to have four vaccines (she doesn’t identify WHICH vaccines, by WHICH manufacturers, WHICH dosages, or even if they are four DIFFERENT vaccinations) tested back in 2004. That is hardly a good sample size. Yet you reference this study and use it to SCARE people into thinking that vaccines contain thimersol. And the sad part is, it’s all irrelevant anyway. Thimersol doesn’t harm children. But that’s a whole other fear tactic you’ll try to employ anyway.
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35,000 unvaccinated children. Virtually no chronic disease.
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If ignorance is bliss, you must be a happy camper. Don’t worry, Brittnee, the facts are on our side. I did not vaccinate my kids after the first couple of visits… my four year old had a seizure after his first Hep B and that was the end of that. They are 18 and 19 and very healthy. We just started using homeopathy, take lots of vitamins and eat the WAPF Way. Life is good!
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Unvaccinated kids don’t spread disease. Adults whose vaccines have worn off or have never received them do. Whooping cough being a case in point. Whooping cough outbreaks usually occur in a 3-5 year cycle. And it is consistent among both vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. Contrary to popular belief, the vaccine MAY keep you from getting it but it WON’T keep you from spreading it. The vaccine, actually NO vaccine is 100% effective. And because it’s an attenuated or acellular vaccine, it can’t keep you from spreading the pathogen. Same with Polio (IPV). And any others that are not live vaccines.
By vaccinating kids we are changing the epidemiology of these diseases and they are affecting more vulnerable populations than the original pattern of the disease outbreaks used to.
Dr Sears (not the TV guy) has a good balanced book on vaccines and has 2 alternative vaccine schedules if you decide to vaccinate at all. He tells you what is in the vaccine and why you should and should not get it. At least make an informed decision on a case by case basis.
I was the same. My 16 month old has never taken a shot and my 4 year old is 3 years behind. I, too, will try my best not to give them any shots from now on. Over here there are no exempts so I don’t know how they’re going to let my kid into any school later this year
Never be ashamed that you’re not allowing those toxins in their bodies!
I wish I knew then what I know now. I had 3 of mine fully vaccinted before I really started to see and understand what was in this and the link to many other problems. the younger 2 are lucky and not getting them at all
I still struggle to explain the choice we made not to vaccinate our kids. Reports such as these need to keep coming – it’s not just the threat of autism that spurred our decision.
I think that most people just go into it blindly. they listen to what their doctors and the vast majority of people say, and they don’t even stop to think about what might be in the vaccines. I know that’s how it was for me, but in the back of my mind I have always been nervous about ANYTHING we put into our bodies and over the years I’ve come to question it more. Having kids really changed my thinking about a lot of things.
Exactly Cluadia. Autism risk is simply the tip of the iceberg with regard to the dangers of vaccines.
Apparently you missed the memo about how the autism crap is just that….CRAP! The guy made it up!! Thanks for spreading disease!
And, apparently you missed the boat on the entire vaccination issue as you are buying into Media Medicine hook, line, and sinker and go no further than the headlines to research your knee jerk comments!
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“stupidity is bliss”: Your inflammatory tone is uncalled for. If you have something to say, make your point respectfully, without the attitude. People are willing to listen, even if you’re biased, if you have good evidence and make good points. So far you’ve been very unhelpful showing us why not vaccinating spreads disease, and why autism is crap.
“The guy” never said that vaccines caused autism. If you’d gone behind the headlines you’d know that.
Looking at it holistically, we want to do everything we can to grow healthy kids and not just throw the blanket of vaccination over them. Since the discovery of vaccines, it’s been used as a one-size-fits-all solution to stave off life-threatening disease, all the while the general health of the population continues to decline.
To say nothing of the fact the our population drinks so much diet drinks with aspartame. I know it may be small amounts but my hubby drinks well over 2 liters a day of diet soda and that is after cutting back. What must it do to the body to be ingesting small amounts of carcinogen daily for decades… I worry daily about what it does to him not to mention trying not to let my children develop the same habit and that is supremely difficult. I am going to create my own concentrates I can add to club soda to try and wean off the soda and then maybe rehydrate my water kefir and get those going again. Then try to find a decent water filter. To be honest, the constant barrage of aspartame worries me more than the one time and infrequent exposure in a vaccination although I don’t feel happy about those either.
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Check out the Berkey Water Purifier – it’s awesome! http://www.berkeyfilters.com/index.html
We bought one a few years ago after using the Brita water filter system for quite some time. The Berkey, although the initial cost is higher, over the long term it’s way cheaper than buying Brita filters, plus it’s a Purifier – it’s so effective you can use it to purify water that may be contaminated by a virus! It also has a special add-on filter if your water has flouride in it. Try sourcing out Kombucha as well – that’s a wonderful alternative to pop as well as the water kefir. Good luck! Cutting out these things will be so beneficial to your family
@hobby baker: When my kids were small we used to give them purified water from our Doulton water filtering system and add a little club soda and some real, organic fruit to it. They liked to watch the fruit bob around in the glass and try to catch it with each sip. We used fresh, mostly homegrown fruits (not as large a problem back in the 70′s as it is now to get wholesome fruits), but now you’ll probably have to buy organic to achieve the same level of safety. Strawberries, black or red raspberries, orange-lemon-lime slices, cherries, grapes — the list is endless. My dd’s favorite was mango. We would use a fork and smash the fruit just a bit up against the side of the glass to release some of the natural juices.
When my boys played little league and my daughter was in ballet, we always took our own water and other drinks. I made homemade *gatorade* by adding citrus juices (freshly squeezed and frozen into cubes for ready use) and sea salt to our water. By the end of the baseball season we were making this up in gallon jugs because the other kids loved it too. SOOOOO much better for kids than the crapola sold at the grocery stores which have questionable ingredients to say the least.
No one in my family ever liked diet drinks because of the horrid aftertaste, so that was never a problem I faced. We drink pop occasionally, but only if we are on the road and don’t have any homemade stuff left.
Try that with your kids and see what happens. They might not think it’s so great in the beginning but they will thank you later.
I think most people have their kids vaccinated because they HAVE to do it so the kids can go to school. We homeschooled in the 80′s and did not vaccinate our kids. Now our grandkids are being homeschooled and they are not vaccinated, either. We don’t vaccinate our animals/livestock, as well.
It’s very important that everyone knows that homeschooling is NOT the only way to skip vaccines. In 48 states, there are medical, religious, and/or philosophical exemption forms you can fill out so your children can still go to public school, if you choose.
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Beware the religious and philosophical exemption. A family in our umbrella school was taken to court over their philosophical exemption and lost because once, when the parent was ill, he took an aspirin. These exemptions must be very carefully worded if you choose to go that route. Legal advice would be valuable.
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There are only 2 states that require vaccinations. All the others you can get waivers for. Not like the drs, schools or govt will make that known though.
I saw a debate about vaccinations in another site. The pro-vax person said that we, anti-vax people, were going to cause illness in our kids, his kids, and everyone else. What am I missing? I thought his kids vaccines were going to stop them from getting sick? How are my kids going to make them sick?
Not to mention that your child would actually have to BE SICK to pass along disease! A lot of unvaxed kids that I have met have had “trouble” catching diseases because they were so healthy! So, that is a completely crap argument and one of my least favorites because it supposes that unvaxed kids are just disease carriers, which is pretty much the furthest thing from the truth.
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Hi Debbi, pro-vax folks base the argument that we non-vaxing people are somehow going to harm them with the baseless argument of herd immunity which is a myth when applied to the vaccinated population. Dr. Blaylock MD dismantles this bogus theory in this post:
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/2010/01/if-you-are-in-support-of-vaccinations/
I’m new to this idea of homeopathic nodules, but am interested to start learning more. Where do you get your homeopathic medicines from? Any recommendations on what to read to start learning about this area? Thanks! I didn’t see anything on your resource page, but not sure if I missed it.
thanks for sticking your neck out there on this issue! I am new to this and with our second little one due tomorrow I have been going back on forth on shots… (which should I skip, which should I keep and if any are necessary – first baby had seizures with his round of shots) I just ordered the vaccine book by Dr.Sears and am waiting for it to arrive. ANY bone head out there who thinks that those of us who choose to NOT vaccinate needs to wake up and see how much WORK it is for a parent to study and study over these issues and not just stick their head in a toilet and ignore what could be harming a child. Its not a matter of “speading our disease”. Its a matter of loving and caring enough to do whats best for you and your family… THANKS SARAH!
Best of luck on your upcoming birthing, Jackie!
And thanks, Sarah, for sharing more evidence of being on the right track with anti-vax!
@Jackie: Congrats on the birth and hope things go well. If you want your baby NOT to be vaccinated at birth with the Hep B shot, you MUST put it in writing and keep the baby with you at all times. Our local hospital gives the shot even against your wishes if you don’t keep him/her with you at all times. A local family just sued our hospital over this very issue. They’re going to win, too.
As far as books, I don’t usually recommend raising kids “with a book” but I will say that young parents today need to read, with all haste, an OLD book written in 1979 by Dr. Robert Mendelsohn called How to Raise A Healthy Child In Spite of Your Doctor. Available at amazon for cheap. One of the best best best books I’ve ever read. Dr. Sears is ok, but Dr. Mendelsohn tells it like it really is. He has two other books I often recommend, as well: Confessions of a Medical Heretic and Mal(e) Practice. Don’t miss reading them when you have time. Even though they are not considered *new* they are packed to the gills with pertinent information that still holds true today. The only areas where things are a bit different are the nutritional things, but we can change those by taking Sarah’s advice, right?!
Start babies on egg yolks, mashed avocado, liver pates, homemade baby food from organic veggies and fruits, steamed, pureed and made into ice cubes for storage and easy use. I did it that way 35+ years ago and it can still be done today. I breastfed my three kiddo’s and when I couldn’t (like in church or whatever) we supplemented with raw fresh goat milk. So many of the old ways are still the best ways.
I just have to second skipping the Hep B shot, Hep B is a STD and the shot doesn’t last past 10yrs. I just told my hospital that I would get my babies vaccinated with their regular pedi. so that all their records were in the same place (haha–at least on the last 2). Also the Vitamin K shot is a joke as well for newborns. I was told by a midwife that the reason the Jewish Faith circumsized on the 8th day was because that was when the natural vit. K kicked in and the baby was able to clot. (it’s also Jewish law but this was the reason behind the law) do some more reasarch, this site is a good place to start and it’s well documented so you don’t have to search far and wide for the source.
D….why can’t you breastfeed your baby in church? Just curious….???
Amen to that.
All the unvaccinated kids I’ve ever known are far healthier and never get sick like the vaccinated kids. Its so ridiculous to assume that unvaccination automatically means disease. And autism is not the only health problem triggered by vaccines theres a long list of neurological, immune, and cancers they can lead to.
Quote your sources, Kelli. Quote the study that proves a health difference between unvaccinated and vaccinated children. Quote the study that shows that vaccines cause any of the things you mentioned. As I asked in another comment, I want to see the data I am not seeing. Show me this data, show me these facts, show me a reputable, unbiased site that says this, and you might just change my mind.
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35,000 unvaccinated children. Virtually no chronic disease. See the video below.
Perfect timing for this post Sarah! I was actually having a discussion about this a few days ago. I understand that there are small amounts of formaldehyde (CH2O) naturally present in our bodies? I’m curious as to whether it is the manufacturing process that causes it to be carcinogenic, or just the sheer volume we are exposed to….. Any thoughts?
At any time, there could be carcinogens in a person’s body. Pathogenic bacteria in the gut produce toxins that can leak into the bloodstream for example and some of these could be carcinogenic. Of course, the presence of carcinogens in the body on occasion which are there for whatever reason does not justify injecting them.
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My children developed chicken pox after playing with some friends who were contagious. The friends had been vaccinated, in fact one third of the kids at their school who came down with CP had been immunized!
When it comes down to it, if you believe in vaccinations, it is YOUR responsibility to have your titers checked regularly and get boosters accordingly. Just because you have had your shots does not mean you have lifelong immunity and likewise it is not only the unvaccinated who can come down with the various diseases. (Like my husband, who had the mumps twice in childhood, despite being vaccinated.)
Thanks for this post! I have a 6 month old, born 2 1/2 months premature. We had no choice but to have a pediatrician when he came home, since he was on a monitor. Our 3 1/2 year old hasn’t been to a doctor since he was 6 months old. I regret that he received HepB shortly after birth, and the recommended 2 month shots. After that, I started researching. No more vaccinations for him, or the baby.
The baby is off the monitor, and doing wonderfully on the raw milk formula! So far the pediatrician has been great about us not wanting to vaccinate. However, at the last appointment, she asked that both my husband and I come together for the next appointment to discuss it. I’m working to gather my thoughts and info to make clear our stance that we will NOT vaccinate. Period. I’m torn because I’ve thought about just cancelling the appointment and not going anymore, but I would love to have a doctor, respectful of our wishes, available to see our sons if needed. I’m encouraged by this doctor because at the baby’s first appointment, when I told her we weren’t comfortable vaccinating, she said no problem, we could discuss it at the next visit. I was so relieved that I thanked her and told her that I had been dreading that topic. She said, “Oh sweetie, there’s nothing to dread with me. I’m… what shall we say… flexible.” So we’ve put off the topic for 3 visits, and next month we really need to discuss it with her. This post gives me more ammunition for that discussion.
By the way, any helpful advice for our next appointment would be much appreciated! I figure worst case scenario, if it doesn’t go well, we won’t go back.
“25 recommended vaccines by the age of 6 months, 36 vaccines by the age of 18 months, 43 vaccines by the age of 4-6 years old and a whopping 68 vaccines by the ages of 11-12 years old?”
This statement is very scary, and sickens me greatly. It sounds more like a treasonous way to control the people rather than helping them.
It is sickening isn’t it, Erica? How people could allow their precious children to be injected over and over again with these toxic chemicals in the name of preserving their health is beyond me. I do not understand why more people do not think for themselves and fully research this issue to finally see the complete idiocy of the CDC vaccination schedule. Listening only to their doctor or the media will only provide one side of the story and any adult knows that there is ALWAYS another side to the story.
Did you ever stop and think about one thing. . . those that vaccinate their children do the same research you do. We just end up at a different conclusion. And it is incredibly disrespectful of you to suggest that OUR research is faulty while yours is superior. Are you smarter than me? Do you care more about your children? Are you powers of reasoning so much greater than mine? What is that you are seeing that I am not? What is that you are that I am not? Please address this.
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Actually, the vast majority of folks do not ever research their vaccination decision. They simply do what the doctor says. Most of the folks I know who have done research conclude that the risks of vaccinating far outweigh the risk of not vaccinating. If you have concluded otherwise, that is certainly your right.
After reading this and thinking about all the crap food kids are eating it makes me very angry. We are sick, our kids are sick with diseases that didn’t exist when I was growing up. I used to work as an aide in school. The teachers complained about the kids needing to be tested for ADD or ADHD so they could be medicated. I guess they wanted zombies at their desks. This was before I knew about real food. I just can’t stand what we are doing to them.
And the talk about autism. My neighbor’s grandson has it. Both his parents are in the military and they were given vaccinations to be tested. You can’t say no in the military. I was talking to another woman last night whose two nephews also have autism. I thought that was something that used to be rare, but now it seems to be everywhere. I’ll repeat myself – I can’t stand what we are doing to them!
Does anyone know if anything can be done to cleanse or detox your child if you have already vaccinated them?
My 10 and 4 year olds have been vaccinated with all the recommended ones (this was back when I was in the dark about all of this). My 2 1/2 year old got only 4-5 vaccines, but never more than one at a time. I feel soooooo guilty, especially about my first two children. Can anything be done?
Thanks!
My daughter is 13 mos now and I didn’t vaccinate her as I always felt wary of chemicals etc. I’m into natural living and great nutrition (I’m a holistic nutritionist that loves Weston Price approach!). Recently, I’ve been getting SO much pressure to vaccinate (from docs and family) against tetanus in particular since she is now walking and getting into everything outdoors. I’m really torn about this one and would love any feedback! I don’t want to be irresponsible here…I love her so much.
Thanks!
PS She was fed the raw milk formula since she was 4 mos (recipe on this site) and is a healthy vibrant toddler
Hi Mil, when I was in college, I got a Tetanus booster to compete in college sports. Within 1 day, I had a severe neuralgia of the nerve that goes through my lungs. I could barely breath. The pain was severe with every single breath that wasn’t totally shallow. This lasted for several months. It was vaccine induced, I have no doubt but no doctor would believe it. Coincidence they said.
The T shot even by itself is bad news. What the harm of one little shot? A LOT as it turns out!
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I am a family nurse practitioner who is “flexible” with regards to the vaccinations. I have tried to find out about the components of the vaccines and it seems that only a couple now have traces of formaldehyde- one being the flu vaccine. While I understand the arguments and even held off getting my 1st child vaccinated until he was almost 4 and am uncomfortable about the sheer number of vaccines being put into our children in such a short period of time, I have come to feel there are a couple that are necessary– like tetanus. My problem was also that I felt I had not choice but to eventually to succomb to the “system” because my son needed some medical care due to an illness and I was worried about the Children & Youth being sent after me because of the horrified response I got from our family doctor group. The doctor we see is more “flexible” but the other providers in the group are not. As an aside, I now work as a nurse practitioner with a federally funded family clinic who are rated on the percentages of children that are up to date with vaccines. It is also a common practice to report parents to C&Y if they are found to be refusing vaccines. It makes the people who disagree, become outcasts in society and nowhere to go when a true medical emergency requires care because of fear that they will be (at worst) taken into court for failure to provide recommended treatments for the children or (at least) made very uncomfortable and verbally demeaned for not following the “regimen”. Something has to change!!! In our state, you can have a form completed with regards to refusal to have vaccines, but a medical provider has to sign off for it to be acceptable. Good luck finding that! Just some of my observations. We definitely do not live in a free country with this type of bullying going on!
Conflicts of Interest
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The same people who make rules and recommendations about
vaccination profit from vaccine sales. For example, Dr. Julie Gerberding,
who was in charge of the CDC for eight years, is now the President of Merck
Vaccines. Dr. Paul Offit, a member of
the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice(ACIP), developed and patented
his own vaccine.
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According to the CDC, the average U.S. 10-doctor pediatric group has
over $100,000 of vaccine inventory in their office to sell. These doctors make
money from office visits and from giving your children vaccines, and also from
follow up office visits for assessing reactions.
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U.S. pediatricians reportedly make
quarterly bonuses from the HMOs they work for by maintaining high vaccination
rates in their practices and have reportedly been reprimanded by insurance
companies if their vaccination rates fall.
The sooner we realize that the medical/drug paradigm western medicine
offers the public is designed to profit from our illness, the sooner
you’ll understand that the only way to take control of your own health
is by adopting powerful lifestyle habits and strategies
anyone know what the options are about vaccinating in other countries? my family is moving to the philippines and our children are not fully immunized (according to US). we started but would like to not do any further vaccinations and are concerned that we won’t have options like we do here. can you point us to some websites or specific articles that we can print out to bring with us or suggest something else to arm us with information to present to the international school our children will attend? i am very concerned it will be an issue so i haven’t brought it up with them yet. thanks
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Barb-
I would say to go to the CDC website to see if there are any vaccines you “need” in order to visit the country. From what I’ve gathered in my travels, vaccines aren’t exactly mandatory, unless you are travelling to certain parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, and even during those trips the requirements the CDC gives is that you can’t donate blood for a certain amount of time afterwards.
Typically the recommendations to get certain vaccines or take certain prescription medicines with you while you’re travelling is to decrease the international health insurance hassle should you get sick. (Example: While travelling in India, during the middle of January, a few years back, I opted to take a prescription of Doxycylene with me in case I got sick. I didn’t get sick, thankfully, but it was nice knowing that if I did get some unknown sickness, I wouldn’t need to travel the side streets of India to get to a dr). I would imagine since you are moving to the country, you will also be switching health insurance companies/policies, and if that is the case, then perhaps contact you’re new health insurance rep to see what their policy would be should you get sick.
Will your children be attending a private school or a public school? If it’s a private school, is it an international school? I’m not too familiar with Filipino politics, but I do know that other countries in the world have much stricter guidelines for vaccines (I believe in Japan, children can’t be vaccinated until their at least 2years of age (or maybe older?). I would contact the school after talking w/ the health insurance rep and ask them first stats about the student body, and then about their vaccines policy.
Again, it depends on the location you’re moving to, but my gut is telling me that vaccines aren’t going to be too much of a problem. You may try to get a hold of some antibiotics/antiparasitics (or homeopathic remedies) before you leave so that if someone does fall ill during the first months or so, you’ll have a way to treat it on hand.
Good luck!
Its interesting to note that though most countries have far fewer (sometimes none at all) vaccines recommendations than us they are not infested with disease. This is contrary to pro-vaccine propaganda that assumes unvaccination automatically equals disease.
What a great post! I had not considered childhood cancers associated with vaccines, but that really makes sense. Our two oldest were fully vaccinated, our third partly, and our fourth, nothing but the Vit K (which in hindsight we would not do again). So we are in the same boat as you, Rosana and Benaan, having decreased vaccines in subsequent children. Instead of having guilt, I just accepted that I thought I was doing the best for my child back then, and thank goodness they have not shown reactions yet, but what I can do now is keep their bodies healthy and strong with real food, and trust that this will help them ward off any ill effects from previous vaccines and anything else that comes into their environment. I also may consider a heavy metal detox for them. That is great for the whole family to do periodically anyway. Bentonite clay, activated charcoal, and the like.
I do not believe the gov’t will ever be in complete harmony with formaldehyde and the link to cancers and such b/c of lawsuits. It would be more than they could ever handle.
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I remember working with my mom (she’s a chemist though doesn’t work in her profession anymore) in a lab (summer job) and we used formaldehyde. I had to wear gloves and pour it behind glass. Needless to say, I was very careful. Now I’m supposed to turn around the inject that stuff into my baby??? This is just one more reason I’m so glad I didn’t vaccinate my children. I researched for years and agonized over this. It seems every few months an article like this comes out and I’m once more assured I made the right choice. My kids are by no means isolated, fed completely organic/pastured/etc. yet they are energetic and very healthy. They have each been sick a handful of days in their entire life: older will be 7 in August and younger is 17 months.
I have recently researched vaccines in Czech Republic as my husband is considering moving back there. Good news: they split their vaccines into ‘necessary’ and ‘optional’. So right away the load is so much lighter. I counted 9 vaccines – and this was through the teenage years! So few in comparison to the US. Bad news: there are no exemptions as far as I can tell. I would have a real battle on my hands if we did move there (I hope not to!!!). The rules are changing: CR is part of the European Union and in the EU vaccines are optional. I hope they change the rules soon.
Thanks for another great article Sarah!
so what are a parents option when schools from elementary on up to colleges all require certain vaccines before they will admit a student
There are vaccine exemptions available in virtually every state – all but 2 I believe. I use a religious exemption here in GA. No problems.
Just one of the many chemicals in vaccines! So glad we are a non vaxing family
Here’s an article on vaccinations from the journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. Nothing specifically about formaldehyde, but includes general numbers on negative reactions to vaccines (quite low).
http://media.jaapa.com/documents/12/vaccines0110_2845.pdf
Here’s one from the American Academy of Pediatricians entitled “Addressing Parents’ Concerns: Do Vaccines Contain Harmful Preservatives, Adjuvants, Additives, or Residuals?”
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/112/6/1394.full
The CDC and FDA websites have loads and loads of information on vaccines and their components. The General Recommendations on Immunization from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the CDC are available online. They’re in MMWR January 28, 2011, Volume 60, number 2. It’s about 60 pages but contains tons of info and you can get it on the CDC website. Incidentally, it only recommends 46 installments up to age 18 and most of them come in combinations, and few of the vaccines contain formaldehyde, so the total number of injections and exposures is considerably less than the 68 you might have inferred while reading this post.
The only information I can find on nosodes is from homeopathic websites. I can’t find any scientific review of their safety, or anything about quality control in their manufacture. Natural does not mean safe. It sounds a bit like Edward Jenner crushing up a cow pox scab and putting it in an incision on a kid’s arm (yes I understand that’s not how they’re currently administered, but the concept is the same). They very well may confer immunity, but I wonder if tons more kids would get really sick if they were used as widely as standard vaccines.
It is the cumulative effect of the combination of toxic ingredients that is of concern.
Now more and more vaccines are being recommended – another DTP booster I’ve just learned. Why – I never had so many boosters – it can only be because immunity fades and so we are facing a lifetime of booster after booster, more and more cumulative toxins.
My family doctor sat down with me years ago to find out which vaccines were cultured using aborted fetal cells. I never would have known that the ingredient “human diploid lung fibroblasts” meant human cells. Some research suggests the human DNA in vaccines contributes to autism – here some information in case the CDC did not include it:
http://www2.starexponent.com/news/2010/dec/07/there-link-between-autism-and-aborted-fetal-dna-va-ar-699483/
This is far scarier to me than cow pox scabs.
Even scarier is the polio vaccine/cancer link.
Does an independent group test each batch of vaccines for actual ingredients and the actual amounts? I don’t think they have any quality control either (except internal, read: none – they can’t be held liable anyway) – I would really love to be wrong, though.
I’m also sorry to say in this country we already have tons of kids who are really sick.
Formaldehyde is present in some of the vaccines on the childhood immunization schedule, including the flu shot, polio vaccine and DTaP vaccine, because it works to eliminate the harmful effects of these bacterial toxins and makes the viruses unable to replicate or reproduce themselves. The very small amount of formaldehyde that is left over in the vaccines that are given to kids is less than the amount naturally found in children and much less than that amount safely given to animals in research studies.
Of course it is small amounts. This does not make it insignificant or safe. People were told that the small amounts of mercury in vaccines was safe too .. that turned out to not be so. I’m not buying it.
Actually yes, it does make it insignificant and safe. And mercury was just fine, too.
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Oh dear. Mercury is just fine too? I think further discussion at this point would not prove fruitful.
And tiny amounts x 36 vaccines = NOT tiny amounts.Poison in all amounts will hurt over time vaccines have an accumulative affect in the body & the mind especially in developing babies.Would you give it to them on a spoon? No? Then why would let it be injected directly into their bodies? Come on now! And remember they get multiple shots at the drs office for 5 different disease in one day starting at 2 months!!!!!!!! A tiny amount PLEASE, I DONT THINK SO!! They get 36 shots by the time they are a year old.And ur saying oh its a tiny amount…No thank you id rather keep my childs immune system intact.And not be injecting them with useless vaccines that do more harm than good.
Actually, it was never determined that thimerosal was dangerous at any levels in vaccinations. It was removed as a public relations move so that people wouldn’t stop vaccinating based on the fear of what it would do. Since then, the incidence of autism has not decreased. In fact, the incidence of autism hasn’t decreased in the face of 39% of parents refusing or delaying vaccinations. In fact, very sadly, autism diagnoses are still on the rise.
Thats because the toxins in vaccines don’t actually cause autism, they are the trigger or aggravation for an underlying medical problem. Most kids today already have weakened immune systems due to a highly processed diet and when a virus is artifically injected this only further weakens their immune system. And a weak immune system opens the pandora box of medical problems usually inluding neurological diseases. Coupled with terrible food quality and a “scorch the earth” approach to germs that also destroys good bacteria. This is partly why we’re seeing such a huge rise in autoimmune diseases.
Besides autism really is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to vaccines.
Well, at least you finally said it. The toxins in vaccines don’t cause autism. Vaccines don’t cause autism. If it was already there, it was already there. And a needle poke didn’t “cause” it. If it unveiled it, then that child is actually lucky, because early intervention is key in treating ASD kids. If a child has autisum, nothing can mask it or protect them from it. Might as well intervene quickly and help these poor kids as soon as possible.
Another huge reason for the rise in autoimmune and psychological diseases and disorders is the fact that awareness is increasing and diagnostic criteria is expanding. Diagnosis is therefore is UP, which is actually a good thing. These children and their families that would have previously been dismissed as “weird” or “odd” or “unreachable” can now receive the assistance that they need. But that doesn’t mean that this wasn’t happening long before, when the vaccinations were lower, it just means that we didn’t have a label to put on it.
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Better awareness and diagnostic criteria is the reason for the rise in autoimmune diseases? You mean like autism? If what you say is true, where in the world are all the autistic adults? You cannot have a genetic epidemic. It is scientifically impossible.
There are plenty of autistic adults that are undiagnosed; people that would have definitely been “on the spectrum” had they been born in a different era. And there are adults that ARE diagnosed “on the spectrum” today. Here is some information on that from Autism Speaks and resources for that as well.
http://www.autismspeaks.org/family-services/resource-library/young-adultsadults-autism
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Katie the reason autism rates have not fallen is because the thimerosal was never removed! A study was done on vials of vaccine labeled “thimerosal free” and they ALL had thimerosal in them. The reason is that the thimerosal is supposedly filtered out after the vaccine is manufactured but thimerosal is very hard to filter out if not impossible to remove. So, they filter it, assume the thimerosal came out but it never did. I cite the study in my Rhogam Vaccine:Big Pharma Profit Ploy post.
So parents are allowing their kids to be injected with these vaccines labeled “thimerosal free” and they are NOT thimerosal free. Apparently, filtering is enough to warrant the “thimerosal free” label regardless of whether it is effective or not.
Also, wouldn’t the decline in children being vaccinated or vaccinated on delayed schedules be leading toward a decline in autism diagnoses, or do you anticipate a lag time, and if so, how long would you determine that to be?
This is a good question. Shouldn’t we be seeing less of all of the “bad” things that vaccines cause if less people are being vaccinated?
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I’m not sure the number of folks rejecting vaccination is large enough to sway any statistics yet. Hopefully in the coming years this will be able to be measured but you can be sure that any such objective researchers attempting such a study would be risking career suicide as others have found in the past. The best data currently is from Dr. Mayer Eisenstein MD who has a database of thousands of nonvaxed kids showing virtually no chronic disease.
I’m not really sure. I do think it is more than the thimerosal in the vaccines that leads to autism. There are so many other toxins, viruses etc in there.
It’s the same mixed message that government gives women who are pregnant. Limit your mercury exposure by limiting the quantities of fish known to have high levels of it, but please do get your flu shot that contains methyl mercury in it. Did you all read the article that links toxins in the environment to autism, including methyl mercury and possible phthalates? It would be interesting to see a study if the rates of autism are leveling out in Europe since they are banned. I read that even organic canned goods have been found to have phthalates in them. Of course, that doesn’t help that our fish sources are now containing phthalates because of the plastic garbage patches in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Then there is the mercury toxicity in the pesticides of high-fructose corn syrup (in things tested like Yoplait Strawberry yogurt of all things, or Hershey’s syrup. I watched the Fox news clip where they were sharing with their audience and both doctors talk about the report, the mercury and that this is pretty great study, yet when asked about vaccines at the end of the report — oh no, no link. HEADSLAM. You just said there was a link between one of the ingredients still left in some vaccines, that are recommended to pregnant women. Even RhoGAM, the shot they give women for blood incompatibility has mercury in it (unless the woman is smart enough to ask for the one that does not have it).
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The formaldehyde/cancer connection bothers me. My mother was a chemist when she got pregnant with me and was working with formaldehyde. Over the years I have suffered from asthma like conditions, psoriatic arthritis and digestive issues. When I saw the autism /mercury correlation I put my children on a delayed vaccination schedule. Being vaccinated did not protect my children from getting whopping cough at the age of 8, so I would have to say make your decision wisely. Have all your information at hand.
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Thanks! Some people are so committed to the status quo that they will not move from their stance, and often require “evidence” from medical/government run sources. Sorry but the CDC, NIH, etc. are not going to give those. FYI:
http://www.vierascheibner.org/
I just bought a new car and I thought I had read somewhere how to get rid of that “new car smell” which I now can see is the formaldehyde, but now I can’t find it. Any ideas? I think the smell is giving me a headache….
1 in 68 adults autistic right now? That is clearly wrong simply using your powers of observation. In a few years, we will need Autism Homes for the wave of young people(with many more on the way) that are now autistic when their parents get too old to take care of them at home anymore.