Before someone makes a decision about vaccines, it should be an informed one. Some doctors have failed to provide the risks and side effects of vaccines. Because of this, the responsibility falls on to the consumer. Therefore, it's important to educate yourself to know all the risks and side effects of any remedy/ medication/ vaccine before proceeding. Know the pros as well as the cons.
People believe in vaccines because they do not know the alternatives. We can argue all day about what's in vaccines and what they contain (chicken embryos, aborted fetal cells, African Green Monkey cells, cocker spaniel cells, ferret antibodies, beef heart, aluminum hydroxide, thimerasol, yeast peptone, pork gelatin, insect cells, bovine serum, formaldehyde, etc. - these ingredients are listed on the FDA's website), and how some children end up with asthma, allergies, eczema, autism, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, thrombocytopenia, autoimmune disorders such as Type I diabetes after vaccination. Or we could talk about how vaccinated children can end up getting measles, diphtheria, influenza, and whooping cough despite being vaccinated, or how vaccines do not fully 100% protect against the diseases they are intended to protect against. That should instill a healthy sense of fear about infectious diseases. That's good because these diseases can be dangerous, whether or not people get vaccinated. Therefore, it's in everyone's best interest to know every possible solution, natural, chemical or otherwise, in case one of them doesn't work. If someone can't vaccinate or doesn't want to vaccinate (perhaps they had an allergic reaction to it, or they have an immune system deficiency or they've been previously injured by a vaccine, or their religion forbids the use of blood products, etc.) they need to have a backup plan.
If someone has an infectious disease, they need to know exactly what to do to handle it, otherwise the consequences can be disastrous. If you want to handle it naturally, there are options, but you need to know exactly what they are and how to use them correctly.
The medical profession sees a fever and tries to block it. The naturopath sees a fever as a healing opportunity - something to be carefully controlled, but not blocked. There are ways to do this that most people have not heard about. An herbalist would recommend a strong herbal remedy taken every hour on the hour, an enema, essential oils applied to bottoms of feet, cold water applications applied to the body and drinking copious amounts of water to reduce a fever without blocking it entirely. When you block a fever, it reduces the body's immune response (which is needed in order to fight the infection). You have to use strong immune system remedies in a high enough dose and administered often enough to stimulate the immune system to destroy the disease-causing organism. In the U.S., not many people have experience dealing with acute infectious crises naturally, so the tendency is to fear the disease or to want to take a preventative such as a vaccine. A healthy diet is sometimes downplayed as a way to prevent infectious diseases, so people are left with the impression that there's not much they can do on their own to protect themselves.
But before you have something injected into your body, I believe in a proactive approach. Educate yourself about what exactly it contains and what possible side effects there could be. Then educate yourself about any alternatives that exist.
Jennie McCarthy is not the only parent with a vaccine-injured child. She just happens to have access to the media to tell her story. Most parents of vaccine-injured children do not have the same privilege to put their story on the television so everyone knows about it. It behooves us as doctors to know what effects result from our remedies so that we may improve upon them or provide a safer alternative if they cause harm. I recommend everyone google search for reactions to vaccines that occur within the first 24 to 48 hours after vaccination. In an ideal world, people take responsibility for what medications they take (taking it properly, knowing what's in it and the side effects) and doctors and pharmaceutical companies take responsibility for their medicines.
Cynthia Foster, MD
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