The CDC recommends that all people between the ages of 6months and 24 yrs as well as seniors and those with compromised immune systems get immunized against the flu as well as receive the H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccine.

So let me get this straight…usually, when a drug is developed that can cure things like, hmm….say certain types of cancers or can prevent the spread of cancers…testing goes on for years before people can even apply to try out the drug in a clinical trial.  In this case, drug companies have been rushing since spring, yup, a whole 6 months ago, to prepare a vaccine and have obviously not had the proper time to test the long term effects, but we should all run and get immunized.  I wonder how many of these drug company executives are actually getting their families immunized.

Over the summer when both my children and myself were sick with colds that just seemed to knock us out, I of course ran to the doctor to get a swine flu swab.  But, to my surprise, the doctor said they were no longer taking swabs as H1N1 had become so rampant that unless the cases were extremely severe, they were treating everyone the same as they would a regular flu.  Why does this not apply to this fall season when they expect the swine flu to become even more rampant?

Don’t our bodies need to learn to find these viruses off?  We spend so much time giving our children immunizations and antibiotics that it’s not surprising that they are constantly sick.  I can’t imagine how we are helping their bodies learn to fight by giving them all of these drugs.

My daughter since birth has had a cold almost every two weeks, chronic coughs that no puffer or cough medicine seems to alleviate and chronic ear infections.  She has had more rounds of antibiotics in her 5 years for ear infections than I have had in my entire life.  Imagine how upset I was to read this weekend in the paper that now it is no longer recommended to give children with ear infections any antibiotics in the first 48 hours because the infections pass on their own and Tylenol seems to be just as effective in helping them feel better ( http://www.thestar.com/article/695751 ). Naive me, followed doctors orders because really, what do I know as a lay person?  But now I know that I have a choice to become smarter.  No, I won’t become a doctor, but I will start taking my children to a holistic doctor in addition to their pediatrician so that I can try and figure out how to boost their immune systems and not just combat each cold as it comes my way.

So will I be immunizing my children with this newly developed vaccine?  Nope.  Am I a bad mom?  Nope.  Just trying to do the best I can with the information available to me.

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