Re: Parents use religion to avoid vaccines
Mama,
I agree that the drug companies need to be more open about what is in the vaccines, and that some children are highly sensitive to mercury. I have seen an autistic child respond very well to chelation therapy to remove the excess mercury, and his mother does believe that it was caused by vaccines.
However, the complications of mumps and measles can be VERY severe, and do you remember reading about the polio epidemics? My mother used to tell me about a child she went to school with being in an iron lung because of polio.
On a side note - my pediatrician's office will give the vaccines separately instead of in a combo - apparently some believe that this reduces some of the 'risk'.
Now i call this crap medicine, unfortunatley some physicians succumb to it.
It will be interesting to know what were the mercury levels in blood and urine of this child?
And the chelation therapy is not without risk, it can cause liver and kidney damage and is not recomend even in people who "did" have excessive mercury exposure unless their blood levels cross a certain threshold.