Anti-vaxxers Declares War on Vitamin K! Death to Science!!

[evildevil]

Babies Are Getting Brain Bleeds-Are Vaccine Fears to Blame?
Some parents are refusing vitamin K injections for their newborns. The consequences can be devastating.

In May, the Tennessean reported on a truly shocking medical problem. Seven infants, aged between seven and 20 weeks old, had arrived at Vanderbilt University's Monroe Carell Jr.

Comments

[nesmith]

I feel so sorry for those babies, being born to such complete nincompoops.

[sephirajo]

Fuck anti-vaxers, anti-science and anti-medicine people and their war on life itself

[lied_ohne_worte]

Good Lord, the comments on that article from the "healthy economist". People who got that shot for their children years ago, and now worry themselves sick about "detoxing" them because they will develop leukemia

[astartexx]

Has anyone of them looked up children's (and mothers') mortality rates?

I totally agree that people forget about the devastating effect of all these now preventable diseases. My Grandmother was one of eleven kids, two died in their first year and one brother was under five, when he died of an infection. (Three brothers were killed in the war.) Her nephew died of measles and his mother still hasn't forgotten it, over fifty years later. My dad almost died of whooping cough when he was seven, he had to repeat his first school year, because he needed almost the whole year to recover. So it's really hard to understand for me, why people would risk their child's life like that and the children of other people for all the stuff, you can't instantly vaccine against for some vague horror of a needle stick.

At least the anti-vaccination crowd is really small in Germany at the moment.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Except for the Waldorfschulen crowd. Nothing better than one's town making national news for being full of people who think having measles is an important stage of a person's spiritual growth, ugh.

[moonshaz]

Spiritual growth? Oh, good God. I hadn't heard that one.

I wish the MMR vaccine had existed when I was growing up. I ended up catching both measles and rubella (not at the same time, thank God, but on two separate occasions). And oddly enough, I don't remember either one being AT ALL a spiritual experience, lol!

The only one of the three that I didn't get was mumps, and I've wondered if I should have the MMR just as a precaution since as far as I know I have no immunity where mumps is concerned.

The whole anti-vaccine thing is crazy, afaic. I'm glad my daughter had the opportunity to benefit from the vaccines. I just wish the chickenpox one had come out in time for her.

[ar_feiniel_]

"A needle stick can be a terrible assault to a baby's suddenly overloaded sensory system, which is trying to adjust to the outside world," it reads.

OMG puh-leeze. A baby that's just gone through the shock and sensory bombardment of going from living inside a uterus to the outside world isn't going to be traumatized by a needle stick. Like, this is just someone making shit up right there.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Plenty of babies break their collar bones being born, I think. One would imagine that to be worse.

[wuvvumsoc]

I've heard of people opposing the vitamin K shot because they think it'll "hurt" the baby. :I

I also hate the assumption that autism is so terrible that it's worth opening your child up to horrible diseases.