Saturday, February 28, 2009
Vaccinations
Sara's otherwise-sensible doctors want to start her on multiple routine vaccinations. While she's in the NICU. While she weighs 3 lbs. Just because she's two months old. I asked myself what the chances were that she'd contract polio, for example, within the next two months, then said, "thanks, but no." Sheesh.
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Doctors hate me for questioning vaccines.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong, I'm all about vaccines... but when the doctor himself refers to the live-culture version of one of the vaccines as the "dirty vaccine", I insisted on waiting until the safer alternative was available.
Every time this issue raises its head I remember my dear cellist friend from grad school who - at age 37 -- contracted polio from changing the very wet diaper of a newly vaccinated babe. My point is that you never know when you are going to be exposed to a virus. A very nettlesome problem!
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Ugh. I suppose I'll talk to the doctors about her risk of infection in the NICU by medical personnel. But I still think shooting her up now is a bad idea.
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