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Controversy continues over vaccinations and whether the benefits outweigh the risks. For parents, the decision is an especially difficult one, as they have to decide whether to vaccinate their babies in the first few months of their lives, when their immune systems are still very immature.

Consider the case of 9-year-old Hannah Polings, whose parents finally won a compensation case in March 2008 for the vaccine damage they believe caused their daughter’s autism. Before being vaccinated, Hannah was interactive, playful and communicative. Soon after receiving five jabs – containing nine different vaccines including MMR – at 19 months of age, she developed vaccine-induced varicella and was then diagnosed with encephalopathy (a brain disease causing delays in neurological and psychological development).

Today, British public health authorities recommend no less than 25 vaccinations – many of them combination vaccines associated with potentially harmful interactions – before a child reaches 15 months. Routine vaccines include Pediacel (5-in-1 for polio, whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus and haemophilus influenzae type B – or Hib for short) at two, three and four months; pneumococcal at two, four and around 13 months; meningitis C at three and four months; a Hib/Men C booster at around 12 months; and the MMR (for measles, mumps and rubella) at around 12 months.

Parents increasingly tell me that they are unable to get clear unbiased guidance from their health practitioners on the risks associated with vaccinations.

Answers to these questions & more are available to 100% Health Club Members

1. Key questions to ask your healthcare professional before vaccinating your child.
2. Which vaccines today contain mercury and aluminium – and how dangerous are they?
3. Why the new 5-in-1 vaccination gives cause for concern – and how to administer it more safely.
4. Is polio vaccination really necessary?
5. Why the whooping cough vaccine may be inadvisable for some.
6. The best time to give tetanus and rubella vaccines.
7. Why diphtheria is necessary.
8. Which children need haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), meningitis C and pneumococcal vaccinations – and which don’t.
9. The best way to approach the MMR combination vaccine.
10. How to support your child’s immune system naturally.

Reference
1. PA Offit, Vaccines and autism revisited – the Hannah Poling case, New England Journal of Medicine (2008), vol 358 (20), pp 2089-2091.

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