I think people forget that the very vaccines themselves can initiate the whole ear infection triangle our autistic kids get....viral infections like measles, can cause deafness...and ear infections...are we to blame the abx's, or take our eyes off the prize? Measles ongoing infections, low grade....think about it....is it the chicken or the egg?

Notice Twyla;
How my writing is now pitiful and not flowing. Use to be okay. I actually got praises and A's in college.

@ Jenny -

In total agreement with the minimum FDA requirements being totally, stupidly low in nearly everything. While no one should take "unneccesary pills" like was suggested, my faith in the government telling me for example how much Vitamin D and A my familly needs is shot. I am much more likely to listen to groups like the WAPF who aren't making money off of me being sick.

I'll take "expensive urine" over being deficient and depending on some pharma cocktail anyday.

Thanks for this excellent, clear, sensible article!

Going off on a bit of a tangent, I have been thinking about antibiotics and vaccines lately. There have been reports that being on antibiotics while getting vaccinated increases the risk of adverse reactions. A couple of possible reasons I had heard were that the immune system is already revved up fighting an infection and so is more vulnerable, and/or that the good bacteria in the gut (which get wiped out by the antibiotics) help with detoxification.

But recently I was thinking about another possibility: Antibiotics are toxic to bacteria but generally not to human cells. Is it possible that when antibiotics are given at the same time as toxic vaccine ingredients such as mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde, there is a synergistic effect?

I started thinking about this when I was listening to stories about the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The stories mentioned that some antibiotics work by targeting Ribosomes/RNA. There is a good explanation of this prize here:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/info.pdf

Below are a few brief excerpts:

“The three Nobel Prize Laureates in chemistry for 2009, Ada E. Yonath, Thomas A. Steitz and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, are rewarded for mapping the ribosome – one of the cell’s most complex machineries – at the atomic level. The ribosome reads the information in messenger RNA, and based upon that information, it produces protein. Scientists refer to this as translation. It is during this translation process, when DNA/RNA language becomes protein language, that life reaches its full complexity.”

“It had been known for a long time that DNA has a relative, RNA, which also consists of four different nucleotides... At the beginning of the 1950s, scientists realized that most of the RNA is found in small particles in the cytoplasm (figure 2). Furthermore, they discovered that this is also the location where proteins are produced. In 1958 they named the protein-producing particle ribosome. It consists of proteins and RNA molecules (ribosomal RNA, or rRNA).”

“Scientists realized that the genetic message is copied to an RNA molecule (figure 3). They called it messenger RNA (mRNA). mRNA moves outside the nucleus and is caught by the ribosome, which uses mRNA as a blue¬print for producing proteins.” “Thus emerged an image of the most fundamental process of life: the manner in which information flows from DNA to RNA and becomes enzymes and other proteins.”

“Ribosomes exist in all cells in all living organisms, from bacteria to human beings. As no living creature can survive without ribosomes, they are the perfect targets for drugs. Many of today’s antibiotics attack the ribosomes of bacteria, but leave those of humans alone.”

Tetracycline and streptomycin are examples of antibiotics which target ribosomes.

Just as vaccines have not been adequately tested in combination, also (as far as I know) they have not been tested in combination with antibiotics. Are there unintended synergistic affects?

I remember some of Amy Yasko's work has to do with RNA, but I don't know enough to understand it.

P.S. Believe me, I am not anti-antibiotics. Although they can be overused, they also can be life saving.

If some vaccines make some people sick, wouldn't all vaccines make all people a little bit sick at the very least? If vaccines cause catastrophic damage in some, why wouldn't they all be health-reducers to some degree in everyone? Maybe with constant stimulation by vaccines, the immune system is primed for chronic conditions so prevalent today. We need to question the entire practice.

I really wish I had the info on Tylenol back when it mattered!!

I felt like a bad parent for forgetting the pre-dose of Tylenol before the 2 month shots - my poor babe cried for 1 whole minute...ouch...it was something I could have prevented.

So I most certainly did give tylenol 30 minutes before the 4 month shots. Then to my horror, 30 minutes after the shots, well after the poke pain-1 minute cry subsided, my healthy child changed drastically right before my eyes - 6 hours of non stop screaming, inconsolable scream crying off and on for months, loss of eye contact and coo's for weeks and weeks, severe sleep changes - i.e. no sleep hardly at all! The happy, communicative baby I knew was GONE!

I still wonder if it was that round of shots that caused severe astygmatisms in both her eyes.

Can you believe that also has never been studied before. Whether vaccines and the inflamatory responses they induce can also damage vision and hearing?

Thanks to knowledge gained from several books including DTP, A Shot in the Dark, I never gave my daughter another shot and she is happy, healthy and NT today. Her brothers are totally vax-free and barely get more than a cold each year.

I'm certain the health of all my children would be worse including autism if I had listened to the ped at the time who, much to my complete dismay, wanted to give my already vax-injured little 6 month old babe who still barely made eye contact - another complete round of shots even though she had a systemic reaction with prolonged neurological effects.

Maureen, I would have loved to have you as my RN back then.

Please, RN's everywhere, wake up. It's time for the big Pharma cool-aid to wear off.

To Brownwyn: Thanks for prescribing that one size fits all information on vitamins boosting the immune system. I, for one, would testify that the minimum FDA requirements didn't work for my family. My child was on a basic RDA multi and suffered terrible colds back to back for years, each lasting a predictable 9 days and ending with 3 sleepless days and nights of bad coughing and congestion. This past fall, to prepare for some spread out school-mandated vaccinations she and I both started extra vitamin C and D at much higher levels. A most welcome side effect as we've continued this regimen is that there have only been a couple noticable colds which lasted more than 2 days AND even better, neither of them ever progressed to coughing and congestion. It has been life changing for me, as a mother. On the other had, my husband the skeptic, has been suffering either one really bad ongoing cold since Dec. 28th, or 2 bad ones back to back. Yesterday he asked me to pick up extra C and D, because he is experiencing first hand the difference between him and us now. What I've learned from this is that not all people are the same. If our systems are all a bit different from each other, that means our tolerences and needs are different and a one size fits all mentality doesn't serve anyone's interest. Not when it comes to vitamins, medications, ideology, politics, laws, society, or pretty much anything I can think of. One size fits all? Sounds like a need for self ratification to me . . .

Maureen,
Thank you for writing this excellent article. I have a feeling I will be sending out this link for years to new parents.

Keep warning people Muareen. The RDA for vitamins is a joke. Not being in a disease state through a vitamin defitiency is not the same as being healthy. Taking certain vitamins in mega doses far exceeding the foolish RDA to cure certain illnesses is well documented in medical literature. Read the books written for the layman by two time noble prize winning scientist Linus Pauling. His good name and work has been corrupted by some fools at the Linus Pauling institute that can't even understand the science of the man they named the institute after. Forunatly he wrote two books before his death so the layman can benefit from his genius.

Thanks Maureen! I will be sending this around to new parents.

Thanks for posting this. That said I have to argue with your use of the phrase "immune boosting". Unless an individual is actually immuno-compromised due to something like AIDS or organ failure, the immune system really doesn't need boosting. And taking vitamins won't do anything to "support" the immune system. Again, vitamins are fine if the person is deficient in a particular vitamin, but a lot of studies have shown that beyond the RDA the vitamins are simply excreted in urine.

Let's not give kids any more pills than they truly need.