What do you feel about homeopathic vaccines for children?
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The only homeopathic way I know of for a child to get vaccinated is to actually get the disease, since there is no way to synthesize the microbes. The only thing homeopathic medicine could do, I think, is to make the immune system stronger and more responsive, but not offer the same protections as anti-bodies.
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Yes. Many people answering questions here have got the flu from a flu shot.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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I applaud you and your family.  I strive towards that all the time, but having been brought up in a home that had all the conviences, took things for granted, ate whatever looked/tasted good etc. etc. I have trouble breaking away from what I grew up with.  I am moving more towards vegitarianism slowly, but surely and try to use homeopathic rememdies as much as I can.  I know that I am no where near you and your family, but I try.\n\nAs a social worker though I would have to say that although I envy your lifestyle I would still be concerned for your children.  Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they are just fine, but I have seen many children who for whatever reason have not been exposed to TV, public schools and mainstream culture who are maladjusted and or taken advantage of when they are older.  I'm sure you can do your best to teach them about some of the nightmares society will offer them, but some things just aren't learnable/teachable, they need to be experienced.  My concern for your children will be how will they adjust to other people, to society at large, how will they maintain this lifestyle with all the pressures from others, how will they stay safe when they may be ignorant to some of lifes obsticles.  I think it is great to live the way you do, I would just do everything in your power to ensure that your children don't get shell shocked when they leave the "comfort of home".
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You can also try:\n\nhttp://www.healing-arts.org/children/ADHD/homeopathy.htm\nhttp://www.newideas.net/homeopathic_medicine_adhd.htm\nhttp://www.abchomeopathy.com/c.php/3\nhttp://www.sweetpoison.com/health-articles/issue12.php\n\nOr any number of other sites. In Google or Yahoo search, enter the two terms: ADHD homeopathic
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http://www.drgreene.com/21_644.html\nhttp://www.kidshealth.org/parent/general/body/vaccine.html
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Just make sure you dilute it with water BIG TIME!  The herbs are pretty powerful....especially for a 2 year old.  Good for you for introducing your child to herbal teas though!!!!!  I have a 2 year old as well I think It is way better than Kool-aid or chocolate milk....YUCK!
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I'm not sure how much, but it's much less than you pay. They are all in on the hoax, though most of them don't know it.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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"paradoxically" the CDC still recommend the use of these proven immunization techniques?\n\nOur drinking water contains measurable levels of chlorine.  It's there to kill the "bugs". Chlorine almost certainly increases cancer risk over extended periods of time.  If it wasn't there, we'd all die of cholera & typhoid in a matter of months.  Your choice!\n\nThimerosol may well pose some health risk (though the alleged links to specific conditions are tentative at best), but so does everything.  If you really cared about children's health, instead of promoting this dubious tale, you would be campaigning to make helmets mandatory for children in cars.  Literally thousands & thousands more children suffer from head injuries in car accidents (that could be prevented by helmets) than suffer consequences as a result of preservatives in vaccines.\n\nDo your homework!
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There are several excellent resources on the relative scientific merit of homeopathy on the internet.  Homeopathy was developed by a German "physician" who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries, before the discovery of the basic sciences which support modern medicine.  Homeopathy is not considered to have any scientific merit and the effectiveness of homeopathic "remedies" treatments have only been anecdotally related and have not been subjected to rigorous scientific testing required of prescription and non-prescrition medication, medical devices and diagnostic tests.  Homeopathy is not regulated by the US government and therefore it is left wide open for selling, dispensing and administering these unproven "remedies" to the naive and uninformed.  Here is a link to a National Council Against Health Fraud Position Paper on Homeopathy:\n\nhttp://www.ncahf.org/pp/homeop.html\n\nIt gives a great history and background of the subject.\n\nI strongly advise anyone who considers any "alternative" medical treatment to investigate using the following links:\n\nQuackwatch: http://www.quackwatch.org/index.html\n\nThe nation Council Against Health Fraud: http://www.ncahf.org/\n\nSkeptics Dictionary: http://skepdic.com/\n\nSee a Board Certified Cardiologist if you have heart problems!\n\nCheers!
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Two months ago, I had given this answer to your Q.\nWhat were the points you didn't like or you didn't understand?\nWhat are your criteria for a "good" answer?\nI am posting again the answer (copy and paste) and I am waiting for your feedback. Why do you refer especially to the GNC company?\nAre you aware of some studies that they did using aminoacids that could potentially influence growth?\nWere they OTC supplements?\nPlease, let us know and in the mean while have another look to my posting.\nRegards\n\n\nHuman growth hormone is administered in the cure of diseases and not in order to make people taller !\nEvenmore, it is a prescription only medicine acting in a small gland situated in our brain. I think they are used also for the dopping. \nTell me now : would you ever trust to give your child such a medicine that could potentially interact with the surrounding field?\nThen you are talking also about OTC products ; they are food supplements I suppose. I don't know what this kind of products are, but I have to say that I had a bad experience from food supplements sold via networking marketing, last spring.\nSometimes they are not so innocent as they look like; they can cause allergies.\nWhy don't you think to adopt a healthier lifestyle? This will help more effectively in your child's case. And it is also more natural, it has no adverse effects, as medicines do .\nI want to add just this : control obesity! Obese children don't get tall and there is also the scientific explanation for this.\nI think that the answer given previously, be happy with yourself, with what you are was wisdom.\n\n\nI have to add that:\n\n1st: It is not just growth hormone that controls growth; there are also other hormones, like TSH(thyroid stimulating hormone), ACTH(adrenocorticotropic hormone), LH(luteinizing hormone) and FSH(follicle stimulating hormone).\nThe small gland situated in our brain, is called pituitary gland.\n\n2nd: You are talking about injections: they are administered just if a GH deficiency is diagnosed; this involves hospitalizing the child because GH is produced in bursts. This means that we can't have a result from a single measurement of this hormone in a blood sample. We need the result of the measurements of a 24 hour period.\nFrom what you say, your child has not been diagnosed from that.\n\nYour child can find more information , articles suitable for the public and educate himself on the GH issue from the site of the Foundation for human growth. It is a patients organisation.\nhttp://www.hgfound.org/growth.html\nEducating himself, he will understand that he really doesn't need any injections of growth hormone in order to get taller and - hopefully - he will adopt a healthier lifestyle in order to grow well.\nOr - if he prefers - he can navigate in the site of wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/growth_hormone\nTake care on scams! A big research project has started this year in the US that will elucidate some obscure points in the area of food supplements that are on sale for this purpose. \n\nKaterina
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THANK YOU, MORE_EVIL!!!!!! Finally, someone uses some common sense with their answer to an immunization question. They told me in the hospital they do it because they don't know if I had it or not, which was insulting considering I've been married to the same man for 13 yrs. I refused it. But, yes, they do give it, at birth, 2 months and 6 months. \n   For your question, something caused my cousin to die at 4 months, it was written off as SIDS, but she died within 48 hours of receiving shots. I'm not sure which one it was. I know of three other infants who died with hours of their shots, too. It does happen, that's why I don't do them.\nHere's what I found on the possible side effects.\n\n"serious allergic reaction involving swelling of the mouth, breathing difficulties, low blood pressure, hives, weakness, an increased heart rate, dizziness and shock. If your child has any of these symptoms, call 911 or take her to an emergency room.
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You are half way there!\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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Vaccinations USED TO contain a preservative called thimerosal.  This is what many people suspected cause the increase in rates of Autism.  I have my doubts about that, but that's irrelevant because they stopped putting thimerosal in children's vaccines around the year 2000.  The last lots of vaccines which contain thimerosal as a preservative expired by early 2003. So that's one thing you don't have to worry about.\n\nA child may experienc rash, fever & general feeling of 'yuckiness' after the jab.  More severe side effects are possible, but very rare.  \n\nSome people suggest giving the children the vaccines separately.  There are pros & cons of this.  It is more expensive, for one thing.
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Please please immunize your children.  If you don't you are setting them up for being infected with some very infectious and debilitating diseases.  \n\nI had polio as a young child.  The vaccine was not being distributed then.  People worldwide think Polio is a thing of the past...well it is not!  Last year quite a number of children got polio right here in the USA.  \nPolio is very very contagious.  Just imagine someone who is carrying the disease lands in NYC and children who have NOT had the vaccine come in contact with this person.  \nWe can have an epidemic all over again...\n\nWouldn't that be fun?\n\nSo use your heads parents...!
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For some really interesting answers to this question I really reccomend a book called 'The Field' by Lynne Mctaggart. It looks into a lot of things that are really now coming to be understood on a new level by modern science. It is a fascinating book and although I didn't agree with everything it said it really opened my mind to some new ideas. It covers a wide range of subjects, many relating to traditional healing. The section on homeopathy is very interesting.
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No, I do not believe they are safe, I believe that we are brainwashed to believe they are safe. Also, it is not true that your child cannot go to school without having them. All states allow some kind of exemption, either a religious, a medical, or a philosphical exemption. I live in CA, and we have all three. I will homeschool, but if I did decide to put them in school, I would use the philosophical exemption. All you do is obtain a form, you can find this through gval.com, and state why you feel it is not safe to immunize your child. If people would do some research, they would find out that when immunizations were first introduced, the diseases they were fighting had already been in a rapid decline prior to their introduction.  Here's a few quotes for you...\n\n "Actually, it's the vaccinated children who spread disease. Many of the disease outbreaks that we are warned about today, are caused by, and occur in, recently vaccinated children."\n "Recently vaccinated children do carry the disease germ and are able to spread it to other children. Many so-called epidemics are initiated and spread in this manner, even though the unvaccinated are blamed."\n "Many children (and adults) receive vaccines and shortly thereafter have a serious reaction, often requiring emergency hospitalization. Such reactions include seizures, autism, immunological damage, neurological damage, sudden infant death syndrome, and/or a number of other rare and elaborately named "new" diseases. Often, the doctor, nurse, or hospital personnel will try to convince you that the reaction is "normal" and nothing to worry about. Other times they will claim your child contracted a simple virus, or is screaming uncontrollably (nonstop for hours!) because she didn't like the needle prick. These are all lies. Doctors NEVER admit a correlation between vaccines and serious reactions."\n  These are just some of the facts about immunizations that most people don't know. I was fortunate enough to have a dr. that says he too believes that they are unsafe, which is rare! These quotes don't even touch on the autism link. Do your research. Don't let anyone bully you into doing something you are concerned about doing. My feeling is this. I compare giving my child a shot to allowing someone to to play Russian Roulette with him. He could receive 100 vaccines and not have a single reaction, but it only takes one that affects him the wrong way to kill him. Who out there would sit with their child in their lap, allow someone to point a gun at their child and shoot, hoping they wouldn't get the one bullet? Not too many, I would hope. Another thought; the only new cases of polio happen in those who have received the immunization. Just be informed. I don't fault anyone for giving their child shots if they have researched it, unbiased, and still feel it's the right thing to do. I do have a problem with people who just take dr.'s word for it that it's safe. How many times in your lifetime has a report come along that said they've reversed what they had been telling us all along? Something to keep in mind if you still decide to immunize. See if the dr. will at least break them up into smaller quantities. One of the theories out there is that because they're giving so many vaccines in a single dose, it overloads the system. Your child could have had a slight infection, causing his immune system to be working on that, received this megadose of live viruses, and it was too much, causing a reaction. Also, ask for thimerosol-free immunizations, and if they don't have any, go somewhere else.\n\n\nFor Donna. You wanted to know where I got my information. Here's a few more links if the first three weren't good enough, if you even bothered to look there. These links are dealing with the issue of mercury, or thimerosol being in immunizations. These are articles that our CDC knows about
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apparently some of the people answering this question dont know anything about homeopathy or are confusing it with herbal medicine or as a generic term for alternative medicine.\n\nHomeopathy DOES NOT HAVE ANY SIDE EFFECTS! the solution is diluted past Avogadro's  number, which in chemistry means that there is probably not even a molecule of the substance in the solution.\n\nThe way homeopathy works is that there is an "energy signature" left by the soulution and that is what the body responds to to heal itself.