Immunizations

My daughter has had all her immunizations so far at a local chinese hospital. The Quality Control seems pretty good, certainly less expensive, but you do have to wait a long time. The hospital we use is in close to our home and away from the city, but I see many foreigners using Peking University Medical Hospital near Wangfujing as their choice for baby shots and also the hospital near Ritan Park.

We do not give our kids vaccinations.

lioralourie wrote:We do not give our kids vaccinations.

I am also curious as to "why not?"

The exact percentage escapes me, but when we first started immunising our children, we learned that a country needs around 80-90% (does someone know the exact amount? is it higher?) immunisation amongst the childhood population to eradicate the possibility of a disease pandemic.

Smallpox was announced officially eradicated, world-wide, in 1980 - thanks solely to a solid immunisation schedule. In 2000, a strain of polio was declared eradicated world-wide - a mile-stone global effort achieved through immunisation.

Whilst I understand the concerns of the possible side-effects of immunisation, these chances are extremely rare. When questioning the MMR vaccine (at the height of its autism-linked drama) with my doctor about 6 years ago, he explained something to me that helped put immunisation into a layman's perspective.

He asked me to imagine a football pitch. He then asked me to imagine myself walking along that football pitch from one end to the other whilst 2 bullets were fired, at random and from any place, directly across the pitch. Being hit anywhere on the body by one of these bullets was a hypothetical example of the serious risks associated with this MMR vaccine (incidentally, autism was not counted as a risk and has since been disproved by health authorities world-wide).

My doctor then asked me to imagine the same football pitch, but to imagine walking (or running!) along it whilst 400 bullets were fired. That was the risk of complications from contracting measles, mumps or rubella.

Your witness.

Anyone considering giving Chinese vaccines does NOT know enough about the vaccine making process, contamination, adjuvants, etc.

You guys really need to do your homework.