A Shot in the Dark: Researchers Advise Flu Vaccine for Unborn Babies
Filed under: In The News, Pregnancy Health, Research Reveals
Pregnant? Get your flu shot. Credit: Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Does the sight of a needle make your child scream like a sorority sister in a Wes Craven movie?
Even newborns do their share of caterwauling when they meet Mr. Syringe for the first time. You can avoid at least one of those dramatic moments by giving your children their first flu shots while they're still in the womb.
Less crying that way.
And doctors say you should vaccinate your children against the flu while you're still pregnant, anyway. A three-year study by researchers at Yale University concludes that getting a flu shot when you're pregnant is 90 percent effective in preventing the flu in infants less than 6 months old.
A press release posted on Medical News Today says this is a particularly good practice, as there is no flu vaccine approved for children that young.
Yet vaccines have long been recommended for pregnant women and older newborns. This new study just supplies some data to back that up. Published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, the study adds to research presented last year to the Infectious Disease Society of America in Philadelphia.
The flu is a major cause of newborns ending up in the hospital. However, with no vaccines approved for children under 6 months old, about all doctors can do is try to keep them away from people who might give them the virus.
Marietta Vazquez, the senior author of the study, says in the press release that this study gives parents and physicians a more pro-active alternative.
"When we compared vaccination rates during pregnancy in the study, we found that in the group of infants who didn't have influenza, far more mothers received the influenza vaccine," says Vazquez, an assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at Yale. "In the group of infants studied, giving the vaccine to a woman during pregnancy was 91.5 percent effective in preventing hospitalization due to influenza."
Plus, she says, the vaccine is a real bargain. You are vaccinating two people for the price of one.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
12-17-2010 @ 1:47PM
sharon said...Yeah, great idea....give both the mom and her newborn a shot of mercury and aluminum. I hope the study follows these moms to see how many develop early Alzheimers and other chronic illnesses and how many of their newborns will have neurological disorders like ADD, autism and asthma. Now that would be comprehensive, "truth over harmony" reporting.
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12-19-2010 @ 8:50PM
Gayle said...I agree...a shot of chemicals...???
People, please read up on what you are actually receiving in a flu shot....search...that is what the internet is for!!
It has been PROVEN that the Swine Flu EPIDEMIC was all a lot of HOO HAA!!
PAID for TO the MEDIA BY the pharmacuticals to excite the public...
Please....you are on the internet....look it up before you believe the hype!!!
12-17-2010 @ 4:16PM
Sandyone said...{You are vaccinating two people for the price of one.}
Um, isn't this one person, one fetus? You know, because the unborn baby isn't really a person. Unless you want to kill it...then we can just call it a clump of cells and pretend it's not a person.
Sharon....sshhhh....don't talk about the hazards. We only want to hear good things about vaccines. Think happy thoughts, la, la, la.
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12-19-2010 @ 8:51PM
Gayle said...A fetus is a person. 2 people involved in chemical injection!
12-19-2010 @ 8:41PM
kimberly said...Why are they always pushing vaccines? Hmmm could it be cause it is a muti billion dollar enterprise that money is the root and not the real care of the people? Too many kids with autism and no one wanting to do the research to see that in third would countries that did away with vaccines for a period of time to test the theory discovered that the cases of autism dropped to almost none. Now hmmm do I want to play russian roulette with my childs mental health and future? NOT!!!!!
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12-20-2010 @ 9:45PM
Mary said...Amen sister, I am a health professional, RN with my Masters, and I have to say I am very disappointed at how many MD's believe all the media trash about the benefits of all the multiple vaccinations that our innocent children are forced to get. However I am seeing more parents who are doing research and are refusing some of these. Maybe there is hope, I know of one peds MD who has 3 children and all have autism problems. and she still pushes the vaccinations on all her patients, because the CDC states they are necessary for health. What an oxymoron.
12-19-2010 @ 11:26PM
Vaccines Cause Autism said...This is going to turn out to be a "shot in the dark" in more ways than one, when these unborn children are Mercury poisoned. Vaccines for infants have 25,000 % more Mercury than EPA safety standard. [No, "25,000 %" is not a typo]
Mercury in Flu Shot 25,000% Higher than EPA Safety Standard
The Vaccine Industry, CDC, AMA, and FDA continually defends mercury as "safe":
"It's not that bad, really. What's a little mercury in your shot anyway? Ignore these inconvenient facts: A typical flu vaccine shot solution is 50,000 parts per billion of mercury. The EPA classifies any substance with more than 200 parts per billion as hazardous waste. (The EPA limit in drinking water is 2 parts per billion.) Thus, the mercury density in a vaccine is 25,000% higher than the level required to be considered hazardous waste. This is injected directly into the bloodstream of infants, children, expectant mothers and senior citizens. What could possibly be dangerous about that?"
http://www.naturalnews.com/027293_flu_vaccine_swine.html [Read entire article here]
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12-19-2010 @ 11:27PM
Vaccines Cause Autism said...Certainly is ironic that the Material Safety Data Sheet for the Mercury preservative Thimerosal states the following:
Eli Lilly Material Safety Data Sheet for Thimerosol [Mercury Preservative]
"Exposure to mercury in utero and in children may cause mild to severe mental retardation and mild to severe motor coordination impairment."
"Caution Statement: Thimerosal may enter the body through the skin, is toxic, alters genetic material, may be irritating to the eyes, and causes allergic reactions. Effects of exposure may include numbness of extremities, fetal changes, decreased offspring survival, and lung tissue changes."
http://www.vaccine-tlc.org/docs/Thimerosal%20Material%20Safety%20Data%20Sheet.pdf
What's the purpose of a Material Safety Data Sheet that is entirely ignored by the medical system and government? Mercury is regulated everywhere EXCEPT for the pharmaceutical industry. They are allowed to inject this neurotoxic poison directly into human beings, including our most vulnerable unborn and infants??!!!
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1-11-2011 @ 5:42PM
sadie said...So, in other words, Eli Lilly themselves are saying that we can now make it so our babies are born with eyesight issues, allergies, numb arms and legs, a decreased ability to become pregnant or produce sperm later in life or if they do their offspring won't survive and they may well be just genetically altered to boot. Wow, sounds likel a great idea to get that flu shot.
12-20-2010 @ 1:07AM
emmick7 said...This is sick , when you think that the goverment found all ways to harm our babies now they want to poison them before there born. The crazy part of it is that many parents that are not to bright will be lining up for this shot and these will be the same parents that will be complaing that there is no one to help them with their autistic child and blaming everyone else.
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12-20-2010 @ 12:11AM
caseymypup said...Wow! Apparently all you naysayers of vaccine have never lost a child to a vaccine preventable disease. My 5yr old nephew died from complications of H1N1. The vaccine wasn't available yet. His parents and his family would risk anything to have him here with us!
You all need to be better informed. The whole autisim connection has been disproven. The original idiot that started the whole controversy admitted he made the statistics up.
Apparently none of you have ever contracted smallpox. Why? Because the vaccine erradicated the disease. Any of you have polio or suffer from post polio syndrome? NO??? Really! Why? Because vaccines have essentially eliminated the threat of polio. It still does exist in some 3rd world countries but the incidence is very low. How many of you know someone who's contracted Tetnus or Diptheria? You have had your Td, right? Pertussis is on the rise because UNINFORMED parents choose to not protect their children from vaccine preventable disease.
I choose to vaccinate my children so that they won't spread disease to those whose parents are too ignorant to protect them. That's called Herd Immunity by the way.
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12-20-2010 @ 1:17AM
emmick7 said...Your the one that needs to be better informed in addition needing to check for yourself of all the people that have died or had servere adverse reaction to the H1N1 vaccine in addition to all the other poisons that are injected people. The way that it sounds your nephew had a reaction to any of the the 45 shots that he had.
12-20-2010 @ 6:35AM
caseymypup said...You are a despicable person! How dare you tell me what my nephew died of!! You're all a bunch of nut cases. As we try to recover from this tragedy, Merry Christmas to you. I hope you never have to feel the pain of losing a 5yr old in your family.
12-20-2010 @ 1:21AM
Vaccinesavvy said...Perhaps pregnant women...and the anonymous doctors who are supposedly prescribing these lucrative twofer vaccinations... should look at this site.
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm094045.htm
The FDA has approved six injectable vaccines for the 2010-2011 flu season and one inhalant. That official FDA page will link you to the manufacturer's package inserts for each vaccine. On each data sheet, you will find this disclaimer:
USE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS----------------
Safety and effectiveness of [vaccine] have not been established in pregnant women, nursing mothers, and children.
There are other exlusions, but not salient to this topic.
The manufacturers make no claims and have not tested for safety or efficacy in application of their products for these populations. Ipso facto, lack of testing in pregnant women means lack of testing in fetuses. No one...not doctors, not the FDA, not the pharmaceutical companies...has a shred of research concerning this application, nor do any of them have a clue what consequences of use might ensue. What they do have is a government that's exempted pharmaceutical houses of responsibility for damages caused by vaccines, except on behalf of children. For adults, you have no recourse but civil court, if you can afford it.
It is each individual's responsibility to educate themselves and make their own health decisions. If you choose vaccination, inform yourself of the risks. Ignorance is not bliss.
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12-20-2010 @ 4:38AM
Margie said...The CDC et al are tied in financially to Big Pharma and makers of vaccines and other meds. They will purposefully spread panic to get people to buy these shots,knowing all the while the vaccines are dangerous as well as useless.It is also linked to autism, but will never admit it. Same goes for Hep B vaccine for infants. Hep B is not a childhood disease, so why give it to infants??? The reason is MONEY and PROFITS.
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12-20-2010 @ 4:10AM
Lowsgardens said...More Disturbing Gumbermint Garabage
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1-02-2011 @ 2:15AM
Michele said...there have been several reports of miscarriages following the flu shot...don't do it. SAY NO TO THE PROPAGANDA AND THE FLU SHOT (say no to other vaccines too! it's all propaganda!)
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1-11-2011 @ 5:45PM
sadie said...I am sorry you lost your nephew. But you really need to do more research to back up what you say. The science just isn't behind it even thought the popular media is telling us otherwise. In the case of the increased whooping cough cases in Claifornia, it is actually the vaccinated children who are getting the disease!
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