Vaccines won't 'overload' children's immune systems
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Last Update: 2020-12-17
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Source: Internet
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The number of U.S. parents who fail to vaccinate their children in time is growing as the global anti-vaccine movement grows. It is estimated that between 10 and 15 per cent of parents did not follow the recommended vaccination procedures for children under two years of age by 2015. Now, a new study suggests that at least one of their fears - that vaccines can overload the immune system and increase the risk of other diseases - is unfounded.
analyzed the medical records of more than 900 infants at six hospitals and clinics in the western United States between 2003 and 2013. The team compared children with unvaccinated and uninscinated children - 193 children in the first group and 751 in the second group.
researchers report in a
that there is no association between vaccination before age 2 and infection with other diseases between the ages of 2 and 4. Paul Offit, a physician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the study, said the findings were not surprising. Newborns are born from sterile wombs into a bacterial environment and experience a "huge bacterial shock." By contrast, the challenges the vaccine causes to the immune system are "very pale". This means that following the child immunization procedures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be in everyone's best interests, the researchers said. (Source: Science Network Xu Xu)
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