The Vaccine Battle

I had typed up a response to something a friend posted on Facebook, but in the end I really didn't have the energy to battle it out all day so I decided not to hit the submit button and to just post on here.  A friend had posted a link to 'Proof Vaccines Didn't Save Us'.  Of course she had to know that she'd face some backlash, but she was also getting some support as well.  I was going to share the following with her, but in the end it was just best to get it on paper and hit delete, that was until my husband said, "You should put that on your blog."  Great idea, so here it goes:

"I unfortunately have had the opportunity to witness first hand a violent reaction to a vaccine. It’s not a situation I chose, but none-the-less one that has forced me to research to make my own educated decisions instead of blindly following the doctor’s advice as I had initially done. My doctor didn’t believe vaccines caused injury until she witness my son’s 12-day anaphylatic response to a DTaP. From that point forward she wasn’t willing to continue vaccinating him. Our allergist has also agreed, and stated that “as a society we’ve basically eradicated diseases such as chicken pox, mumps, and measles but have created a whole slew of new ailments like asthma, allergies, and autism.” That statement has always stood out to me because he’s implying that these current epidemics are a result of vaccines. I have since been given 2 medical opinions and waivers from MDs stating that my child is not to receive any further vaccinations due to adverse reaction. From my standpoint, if vaccines really do work then let the rest of the population get them to continue to protect my child. But I am so grateful that our state still allows people to make a decision that’s in the best interest for their child because it’s clear that vaccines are not right for everyone. The scary part is that so many pediatricians do not know what is actually in the vaccines, that they just accept the general blanket statement that everyone should be vaccinated as guidelines put forth by the medical community that is heavily backed by the pharmaceutical companies who are making and profiting from the vaccines. ‘The Vaccine Book’ by Dr. Sears does a nice job going through each vaccine pamphlet and identifying the adjuvants, then weighing the risks of the disease verses that of the vaccine. He’s actually pro-vaccine, but believes it should be done with caution.


According to the federal government’s own data, vaccine injury is real. That’s why they created the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System that has paid out over $2 billion dollars in tax payer dollars to vaccine injured victims. Their own site states that VAERS receives around 30,000 reports annually, with 13% classified as serious (e.g., associated with disability, hospitalization, life-threatening illness or death) (CDC VAERS Master Search Tool, April 2, 2008). Since 1990, VAERS has received over 200,000 reports…http://vaers.hhs.gov/about/index"

Lungs Continued

As we continue to work on my son's lungs, yesterday he did a combination treatment for a vial labeled 'Bronchus' and the emotion 'Fear.'  NAET is weird enough, and then you throw the emotions in . . .Anyways, if you want to talk about weird or coincidental about 15 minutes after leaving the office my son had excruciating pain in the lower portion of his right rib cage.  He was crying and holding his side asking to be carried.  That lasted for about a half an hour.  In addition his right eyelid turned bright red and the skin appeared irritated.  This is the same eyelid that use to be our telltale sign of an allergy encounter, except this time he hadn't eaten anything.  We haven't seen that eyelid sign in many months.  The eyelid subsided at the same time the rib pain did.  Was it the treatment or just perfect timing?  We may never know, but my husband and I just looked at each other an shook our heads.

Hershey Kisses Revisited

One thing I've encountered more times than I can count is how everyone likes to give kids candy.  They do it as a nice gesture, to be the good guy, and to appease kids.  Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, as I know I've done it myself.  But nine times out of ten they offer candy without asking the parent's permission, and through the years I have consistently been put on the spot to be the bad guy whether it's at the grocery store, the hair salon, the pharmacy (recall when the pharmicist offered my kid peanuts of all things!), etc.  Around the holidays, it's even more prevalent.  This past Christmas a friend made gift bags with Hershey kisses in them.  In October 2009 I had made the mistake of giving my son a Hershey kiss, as I wrote about it here.  Two years have passed and about 135 NAET treatments later, and after a lot of begging from my kid, I thought we'd try it again.  Afterall, the ingredients are pretty minor in comparison to most candy--containing sweet or semi-sweet chocolate, cocoa butter, sugar, milk, vanillin, milk, nonfat milk and soya lecithin,  (and I'm sure there's potential for cross contaimination with their other lines of kisses.)  After eating one he said his lip was itching and had a small hive on his face, even though he's treated for each ingredient individually.  I home treated him for the kiss, had the doctor test him which she said he passed, and he tried another one.  This time without any issue what so ever.  Sometimes the combination treatment is necessary for reasons beyond me.  I'm just glad he's able to enjoy the little things in life again.

Birthday Cake!

You can't even imagine my delight in watching my son devour 2 pieces of real birthday cake!  We're talking straight from the bakery white cake with raspberry filling and white buttercream frosting.  He loved every bite of it!  Everyone stood there in amazement as we had never seen someone eat cake like that, it was gone in seconds.  And if there would have been anything left on the plate to lick, I'm sure he would have licked it clean!  Of course the best part of it all is that there was absolutely no reaction of any kind.

Am I going to miss making my gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, soy-free, food coloring-free cakes?  Absolutely not!!

Peanut Allergy

The first article I read today was on the little 7-year old girl who passed away last week after a friend gave her a peanut to eat on the school playground.  Her body went into cardiac arrest after ingesting the nut.  My heart breaks for her and her family.  I literally have a pit in my stomach.  I read that just after sending my son to school today and instantly wanted to go get him and bring him back home to keep him safe.  It is so very scary.  I know he knows, but what if someone offered him a peanut M&M or some other enciting looking peanut-laced candy?  These thoughts are terrifying to me.  I'm going to talk to his NAET doc tomorrow about proceeding on to nuts.  From what I've read, some NAET practitioners do not treat nuts but mine does and has had a lot of success with anaphylactic kids and nuts.  The thought still scares me, but if it could be safe for him to be around them that would be so comforting--like our egg experience with the accidental ingestion and everything turned out okay.

Technical Issue

Just an fyi . . .There appears to be an issue with the latest Windows updates put out and blogger, the comment section is freezing up while using Internet Explorer . . .Firefox and Safari are fine.

Question About Lungs

I seem to be having some technical issues with my last post.  There was a comment left on the "Lungs" post which the computer is not letting me reply to, so I'll address it here.  The question was if NAET has helped the asthma? Here's what I can tell you, in 2008 when my son was 2 years-old we had 6 straight months of rushing to urgent care/ER for uncontrolled asthma attacks.  I then sought the help of an naturalpathic doctor (ND) as we weren't getting anywhere with traditional MDs. With the introduction of various supplements the asthma subsided but would still rear it's head with colds and viruses.  At the age of 3 1/2 we started NAET, vitamin D, fish oil, and probitics and there was a huge difference in my son.  He no longer would get asthma at the sign of a cold, and for the first time his body was able to handle a cold with productive coughs and not asthma.  Last year he hit his inhaler a total of 4 times.  His allergist was so impressed that he wanted us to take him off the Flovent since the dosage was already very low.  We trialed that in August, but within a few days he had some wheezing.  With school starting we decided to try again later.  We do go days without the inhaler, but I'm still hesistant to go off it all together.

My husband is a lifetime asthmatic and has been working on his lungs, too, with NAET.  I've noticed a big difference in him as of late, but need more time before I'm ready to claim any sort of victory.

Lungs

Hubby took himself and the boy to NAET today after a couple weeks off.  Our goal is to get our son off his asthma meds altogether.  He currently takes 1-2 puffs of Flovent 44 per day.  They each worked on their lungs, hubby treated for lungs and sinuses while the boy treated for lungs and stress.  Afterwards, they enjoyed lunch for the first time together at Chipolte and my son did great with his chicken taco!!  And he enjoyed every bite :)

Road Trip Complete

We just wrapped up our road trip, and what a great time was had.  The best part was watching my kid enjoy life and food!  As I reported previously, he's been enjoying so many new foods and he really didn't let up the entire trip.  Great news is that there was no eczema or scratching! We tried out a couple different pizza joints and he was fine, both with & without pepperoni.  He had more waffles.  And the most recent item was bread.  Real bread.  He had a turkey sandwhich on a slice of whole wheat and he said it, "Totally Rocked."  He's put on 2 pounds in about two weeks--one of these days he'll reach 40 pounds.  Tomorrow it's back to NAET!

Is it a milk allergy or a reaction to bacteria?

I was reading this article on raw milk, and a line stood out at me:
"...bacteria killed by pasteurization are not removed, so their dead carcasses remain in the milk to ignite immune reactions in those who ingest them, which is one major cause of milk allergies. It isn't really an allergy to the milk itself, but to the organic cell fragments it contains." 

I've never thought of it like that before, just always assume it was an allergy to the milk protein.  Then again, if milk is pasteurized then the protein is likely killed off. 

We haven't jumped on the raw milk wagon, partly because we've grown accustomed to using coconut milk (although I realize it does not have any protein.)  The other reason is that I grew up working on a dairy farm, and after seeing those conditions I would not consume raw milk from those cows!  First you wipe their bags with a soapy rag to remove the manure, then apply the milker, sometimes they'd have mastitis and would require injection of antibiotics right up into the teat.  So you can see what that wouldn't be an appealing image.  But as the article points out, commercial dairy farms are much different from cows providing raw milk.