Vaccinations and Antibiotics

Without them where would you be?  Better off?  Or dead?

I run in a few different circles where I am able to offend a lot of different kinds of thinkers.  Some people think that all of western medical science is part of a huge conspiracy with Big Ag, Pharma, and Congress all enmeshed.

Certainly, there are some questionable relationships, right? I mean should ConAgra be financing and sponsoring the American Diatetic Association conventions and should Monsanto's lobbyists be allowed to serve as the Food Safety Czar?  There's questions about those things, right?

I had a lot of questions about our standard, mainstream science way of thinking about nutrition.  So I enrolled and completed a program that taught complementary or alternative healing and nutrition.  Now I am a certified natural health counselor.  In that program, there was a lot of work we did that looked at scientific experiments and health and examined the work of some of the natural healers and compared and contrasted methods and findings of the two groups.

I wondered which was the best approach - the complementary or the western standard?

My conclusion:  Question everything.  Get as much information as you can and then figure out what makes the most sense to you.  But when it comes to serious medical conditions - find a doctor that you can trust. You might have to go to more than one before you find the right provider.

It's pretty cynical to think that the only reason we require vaccinations for children enrolled in school is to help the business of Big Pharmaceutical companies grow and become richer.

Kids today get a lot more vaccinations. They get them at a really young age - and sometimes many at once.

Maybe that's not the way to go.

But do we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater?  Maybe we could just slow it down and change up the vaccination schedule.

I've had some really interesting conversations with concerned mothers who love their children but absolutely refuse to vaccinate their children. Against anything.  I no longer try to convince them to get the MMR or Polio vaccine because I don't think I would be very effective at changing their minds about it.  But I do ask them questions.

Some of these same moms go to the doctor at first sign of an increased temperature in their little baby and insist on antibiotics. Insist.  Despite the fact that antibiotics are become less effective because of overuse.

They insist on antibiotics because they don't want another crying baby and sleepless night.

But wait. Vaccinations are bad and just a way for pharmaceutical companies to make money. But what about antibiotics?

Where did mom go to medical school that she can insist that her child not get a vaccination and then get prescribed antibiotics at will?  Doctors cave in.  A lot.  When they don't the doctor becomes very unpopular.

There's a lot of BS out there on Facebook and in blogs.  And in the news.  People quote research from studies published in obscure journals, or worse, unpublished, undocumented findings in an n=1 experiment.

You can't extrapolate from that kind of a report.  It's a technique used by marketers.

Did you vaccinate your babies?
How do you feel about your kids going to school where there are unvaccinated children?


Comment below. I'd love to hear your point of view.