Many experts in the health fields today such as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends immunizations for infants. There are two main reasons you should immunize your baby. By immunizing your baby, you not only protect him or her, you also protect yourself and others around you as well. The best way to prevent infectious diseases is through the use of vaccines.
There were only vaccines to protect babies from 7 diseases 30 years ago. Today, there are vaccines to protect them from 14 dangerous diseases. Medical technology has advanced over recent years to develop vaccines to protect your infant from these 14 diseases. It’s up to you to make sure your child receives protection against dangerous diseases.
Everyone Benefits from an Immunization Program
· All too often, there are illnesses that threaten a baby with serious complications and sometimes even death. Vaccinations can prevent a child from getting a disease which has no medical treatments.
· There are people who are susceptible to diseases due to their immune systems being impaired. Their impaired immune systems may at times prevent them from getting vaccinations. Even if they've been vaccinated, they do not develop immunity. It is, therefore, essential that most people get vaccinated. The illnesses will then be made less common.
·The cost of immunizing your baby with vaccines is actually less than treating the child with shots that would protect him or her.
·Epidemics can be prevented by people within a community getting immunized with vaccines.
Vaccinations Don’t Cause Autism
Scientific studies have proved that vaccines are not related to autism. Even though a child shows signs of autism around the same time a child is vaccinated, the two events are not related. The vaccines do not cause autism.
The recent studies of a baby’s brain development found that it develops during the second trimester of pregnancy. This is a long time before the infant gets vaccinated. Clearly, the vaccinations are not the cause of autism.
Dangerous Diseases are Only a Plane Ride Away!
Chickenpox and pertussis (whooping cough) are still common in the US. However, this is not true of diphtheria and polio. Both these diseases are currently prevalent in some parts of the world.
Should you travel with your baby to parts of the world where polio and diphtheria are common, you would put your baby in danger of coming down with one of these diseases. In addition, other children who haven’t been vaccinated against these diseases may also be put in danger. If vaccinations didn’t exist, potentially deadly diseases would put children including yours and mine in danger of contacting one of these diseases.
·Pertussis: Infants suffer most from serious side effects of Pertussis. As recently as 2010, there were 10,000 cases of Pertussis in California. Of these 10,000 cases, ten infants died from the disease. In 2013, Pertussis cases again increased.
·Chicken Pox: As many as 12,000 people in the US were hospitalized due to chickenpox and 50 to 100 people died due to the disease each year before the chickenpox vaccine was developed. Any child who hasn’t been vaccinated to prevent chickenpox runs the risk of being attacked by invasive bacteria such as strep and staph. The invasive bacteria live on the skin. If the bacteria enters the body, the bacteria could cause serious complications and death in some cases.
· Measles: Measles is a disease that spreads easily. At times, this disease has been so serious hospitalization was necessary. Serious cases have led to death in the past. Protect your child with measles vaccination.
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