fever revisited
Kai woke up today at the YMCA and began screaming. The counselors had just gotten him calmed down when we came to pick him up. He seemed kind of hot, and on the long, crying-filled ride home, his temperature rose steadily. By the time we got home and got a dose of baby Tylenol into him he was 101°F. Needless to say, he was not happy. He hasn’t been that unhappy since he was a newborn. While he had a slight fever on Wednesday, the day of his HIB vaccination, he was fine the past two days.
It was hard to leave for work knowing that he wasn’t feeling well. Plus, in my research I’ve read of many cases of vaccinations gone horribly wrong — out of control fevers leading to permanent brain damage or worse. There is also an all-too-coincidental correlation between the autism rate, ADD rate and when the current practice of combining multiple vaccinations for convenience. Not that vaccines aren’t helpful in most cases, but the current standard of one-size-fits-all-immunization-program doesn’t make sense. Throwing multiple lab-modified “weakened” diseases at a two-month old baby at one time doesn’t make sense to me.
We have decided to immunize Kai slowly over time, with our doctor’s help to decide which vaccines to do at what time. As it is, he’s only getting one vaccine at a time. I can’t imagine how shitty he would feel if he had multiple immunizations right now. This one single HIB vaccine is making his fever race four days later by itself.
My point is, all too often we just accept what our doctors say without questioning them or their motives. We would like to think that they are selflessly looking out for us. I invite you to consider that modern medicine does not always have the answer, and sometimes we find out later that the previously-accepted answer is now unacceptable by current standards. Question assumptions.
Moving along, Kai’s temperature is currently under control, the last report I received was that he was down to 99°F. He’s sleeping quite peacefully now. Tonight was supposed to be the second night our let-him-cry-it-out project, but I think he deserves a little bit of extra cuddling tonight. I think we all do.
It was hard to leave for work knowing that he wasn’t feeling well. Plus, in my research I’ve read of many cases of vaccinations gone horribly wrong — out of control fevers leading to permanent brain damage or worse. There is also an all-too-coincidental correlation between the autism rate, ADD rate and when the current practice of combining multiple vaccinations for convenience. Not that vaccines aren’t helpful in most cases, but the current standard of one-size-fits-all-immunization-program doesn’t make sense. Throwing multiple lab-modified “weakened” diseases at a two-month old baby at one time doesn’t make sense to me.
We have decided to immunize Kai slowly over time, with our doctor’s help to decide which vaccines to do at what time. As it is, he’s only getting one vaccine at a time. I can’t imagine how shitty he would feel if he had multiple immunizations right now. This one single HIB vaccine is making his fever race four days later by itself.
My point is, all too often we just accept what our doctors say without questioning them or their motives. We would like to think that they are selflessly looking out for us. I invite you to consider that modern medicine does not always have the answer, and sometimes we find out later that the previously-accepted answer is now unacceptable by current standards. Question assumptions.
Moving along, Kai’s temperature is currently under control, the last report I received was that he was down to 99°F. He’s sleeping quite peacefully now. Tonight was supposed to be the second night our let-him-cry-it-out project, but I think he deserves a little bit of extra cuddling tonight. I think we all do.
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