Monkey WHAT??

If you think you are a bit leary of vaccinations right now, read this list of ingredients in each vaccine and you will be quite surprised. It's straight from the horse's mouth (aka - CDC). I have a lot of questions - but one is why is 'monkey kidney tissue' really a necessary ingredient for a vaccine?? And that's just one weird ingredient. Read it for yourself.

Ingredients listed by vaccine OR Ingredients sorted by ingredient names

My child cannot have the Flu vaccine (egg), MMR (egg - although it's not suppose to affect egg allergic people, but she did have a major reaction), Hib (lactose - aka it comes from milk) and she also reacted to the Varicella (Chicken Pox) vaccine although there is no documentation that it has any of her allergens in it. I had to learn this the hard way. My child's doctor never said a word about this to me even though we had just spoken about her severe allergies. Don't leave it up to the doc to tell you everything. If you/your child has any allergy, make sure that anything that is going to go in your mouth/bloodstream or come in contact with your skin has been investigated for hidden allergens.

I encourage all of you who have any type of allergy to look through these ingredients before taking anymore vaccinations. You have to be the judge of whether or not it is best for you or your child to have certain vaccinations. Don't expect anyone else to have your child's best interest at heart. Do your homework. Before you go extreme and refuse to vaccinate at all, consider reading this article. Then, determine which ones you should/should not allow. Make an informed decision.

It's been awhile...

since I've posted on this blog. We are still very deeply involved in living the allergic life. In only a few more months our daughter will be tested to see if she has outgrown her current allergies and/or developed any new ones. We have done our very best to keep her away from anything and everything that contains milk, eggs or peanuts now for 3 years. We've been praying and asking God to allow her to outgrow her allergies for her own sake and for His glory. Whether He chooses to do that or not, we know that He has a reason for allowing her (and us) to walk this path. She is a good sport about it, but it never gets easier to tell her 'you're allergic to that' or 'you can't have that because it has milk, egg or peanut in it'. In fact, it is getting harder as she gets older. I would love for her to be allergy-free. What a drastic change there would be in her life. The big thing coming up that we will have to face is her Booster Shots for Kindergarten next year. I do not know yet what I will do about that. I don't trust immunizations to be safe for her because of her allergies, but now it's time to do more research and determine the ingredients of the shots she will be needing to get to see if I will allow it or not. We'll see. That's the biggie coming up. I'll let you know how the decisions will fall. Any advice? Comments? Concerns I should be thinking about?