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http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2014/02/03/when-antivaccinationists-play-on-mothering-com/So, my almost ten month old started coughing and after a while, we suspected that it was whooping cough. When his cough suddenly changed from normal to not normal, we took him to our ped (which is pro-vax but isnt pushy about it.) and he gave him some antibiotics in hopes it would help the cough.
My boy handles it really well. He gets really red, but he breathes through it and immediately after hes like I want to play!
My husband is having a really hard time with this. REALLY HARD. The only thing he asked for our boy to get was pertussis because it is so scary! I resisted, since Im the one that did all the research and while I showed him he just deferred to me, even though I urged him to do his own research so exactly this issue wouldnt happen. We arent a team in it together anymore. Hes like we should have vaccinated him, I asked for just ONE shot out of all of them and then I reiterated the its a cocktail info and hes like then why do ALL of these doctors, all these highly educated people, think that they are beneficial? Is there some great conspiracy by ALL doctors?
This is child abuse, pure and simple. Because the mother mistakenly believes that vaccines are harmful and that pertussis isnt such a big deal, she didnt vaccinate, and the result is that her son is suffering. Clearly in denial of the severity of pertussis, she tells herself that hes handling it really well, but then describes how he gets really red and breathes through it. Those of you out there who have ever had a cough so severe that its hard to breathe know how terrifying it can be. Ive experienced it myself forthankfullybrief periods of time. Its terrifying. If its terrifying to an adult to have a cough so bad that he cant catch his breath, how much more terrifying is it to a ten month old child?
When the woo crackpot mom is saying "The only thing he asked for our boy to get was pertussis because it is so scary!", she's saying that the only vaccine that the father asked for, was the pertussis vaccine. That becomes clearer from her comments further into the article.
Woo crackpots strike again.
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(26,467 posts)dem in texas
(2,674 posts)This was in the 40's when I was about seven years old. The little girl was about 2 and gasping for air. Her mother and my mother rushed her to Parkland Hospital and another neighbor watched all the little kids. I'll never forget that, the little girl was blue in the face. She survived, we are still friends, now in our senior years.
Here in North Texas, we had a recent outbreak of whooping cough. it was children in a fundamentalist church where the pastor preached against getting vacations. One of adult members visited a third world country and came back with whooping cough. The disease spread through the children in this church and another church that had ties to them. Most of the children were home schooled, so they did not spread the disease much out of their own group. The pastor changed his story and advised the parents to get the kids vaccinated.