New Born Baby

A newborn baby; perfect in every way. All 10 fingers and toes, beautiful pink, soft skin, perfect tiny lips and nose. A strong heart beat and a strong set of lungs. Becoming the parents of a new life; a responsibility of protection is important to the health and safety of the little, defenseless person. Infants are very susceptible to many diseases and illnesses. The best place to start providing protection is before leaving the hospital after the child is born. Immunizations are the most important beginning of a long and healthy life for a child.
Parents face many decisions that affect the health and well-being of their child. Parents want and need information about immunizing their child against childhood diseases, in order to make informed decisions. Parents today rarely see the devastation of diseases like polio and whooping cough, they might wonder why immunizing their child is still important. At the same time they want to do what is best for their child. Immunizations are important! Childhood immunizations are a safe and effective way to keep children from getting sick. In the last 50 years, vaccines have helped to nearly wipe out measles, diphtheria, and polio. Vaccines strengthen the immune system by helping the body to reject the viruses and bacteria that cause disease. Parents wonder if vaccines weaken the immune system. Evidence published in the January 2002 issue of pediatrics suggests that the opposite is true. This study explained that if a baby received all 11 vaccines at once, this would occupy only a tiny fraction of the immune system and-that part would quickly replenish. The most important thing to remember about vaccines is that the benefits are much greater that the risks. Immunization is so successful; people hear more about the side effects than the real dangers of the diseases. Before a vaccine was available for measles, half a million cases occurred in an average year, polio crippled thousands of children and adults; rubella, or German measles, caused hundreds of babies to be born with deafness, mental retardation, or other defects. Vaccines take advantage of our body’s natural ability to learn how to eliminate almost any disease causing germ, or microbe that attacks it. Our body remembers the microbes and can protect itself from the microbe if encountered again. With out the ability the fend off microbes, the simplest illnesses, even the common cold, could quickly turn deadly. On average our immune system takes more than a week to learn how to fight off an unfamiliar microbe. Sometimes that is not soon enough. If the microbe is stronger than the immune system, the microbes can spread through the body more rapidly that the immune system can fend them off. Certain microbes are so powerful or virulent that they can overwhelm or escape our body’s natural defense. In cases such as this, vaccines can make all the difference. Vaccines contain either parts of microbes or whole microbes that have been killed or weakened, so they do not cause diseases. When our immune system confronts these harmless versions of certain diseases or germs, it quickly clears them from the body. Vaccines fix the fight; at the same time the body learns quickly how to eliminate these microbes. Once our immune system is trained to resist these diseases, we are said to be immune from them. Before vaccines, the only way to build up a resistance was to have had the disease. With any lick, our body would build antibodies to fend off the microbes, if the body was unable to build a strong enough defense against the microbes, the body would not be able to survive the attack. The ability to fight off microbes without a vaccine is called naturally acquired immunity. Vaccines protect against infectious diseases caused by microbes, organisms to see without a microscope. Many bacteria are made up of only one cell. Viruses are part of genetic material packed inside a membrane or a protein shell, are even smaller than bacteria. The body evolved an immune system due to a world filled with organisms. Many of them do not bother us, the bacteria that normally lives in the digestive tract are beneficial. Certain bacteria break into the body using the warmth, nutrients, and tissue to survive and reproduce, doing the body harm in the process. Vaccines protect not only one person but every on around that person. With vaccines in the immune system, our symptoms and contagious stage will be shorter, or one may not have any of the effects. Vaccines are the key to public health. Immunizations should be part of routine health care obtained through one’s personal physician. Long lasting protection is available against numerous diseases in the world. All states require proof of immunization or other evidence of immunity against some of those diseases for admission to school or work. Requirements differ from state to state, and exemptions may be granted to medical, moral, or religious reasons. Immunizations are also important for adults. Those unprotected against diseases should consult their physicians for the possible risks. Elderly adults need to be immunized against flu and pneumonia. These two diseases can be devastating in the elderly. The immune system of the elderly is like that of a newborn. Over time their systems breaks down and is unable to fend off different diseases;
• Because of better hygiene and sanitation, diseases had already begun to disappear before vaccines were introduced.
• The majority of people who get the disease have been immunized.
• There are not many vaccines that have been associated with more adverse events and details than other.
• Vaccines cause many harmful side effects, even death, and may cause long-term effects we do not even know about.
• DTP vaccines cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
• Vaccine preventable diseases have been virtually eliminated from the United States, so there is no need a child to be vaccinated.
• Giving a child more that one vaccine at a time increases the risk of harmful side effects and can over load the immune system.
• There is no good reason to immunize against chicken pox (vermicelli) because it is a harmless disease.
• Vaccines may cause autism.
• Hepatitis B vaccine can cause chronic health problems, including multiple sclerosis. The primary culprit in children’s vaccines remains chimerical, which had largely been removed from the most common immunizations. Dr. Bernard Rimland (founder of the Autism Society) began to suspect a link between the DPT vaccination and autism as early as the middle 1960’s. The phenomenon of early infantile autism was first observed and discussed by physicians in the early 1940’s a few years after pertussis vaccine became more widely used in the United States. There is an enormous amount of credible evidence that vaccines can and do cause harm. Why are some children injured my MMR shots and others not? The answer is people are very different in many ways. Part of the difference is genetics. Another part is environmental, not much can be done about genetics right now. Many things can be done by a person’s susceptibility to diseases, including vaccine induced diseases, by dealing intelligently with the environment.