What does folk think about vaccinations,
on their children?.
My vegan friend is staunchly against it and quite understandable, but as I have said I was a paediatric nurse for many years and therefore I have seen what such childhood diseases can do such as measles encephalitis, a severe whooping cough on a baby that nearly died and a child born blind and deaf because a mother had german measles when pregnant.
So I am in a quandary, her child is vulnerable to these diseases and I do not know the answer. If it was my child and have seen these outcomes I am afraid I would have to give in and have my child vaccinated against these illnesses. Not the MMR though but single vaccines.
Re: Are tetanus jabs vegan?
Oh lordy.
Well, tetanus is a bacteria, and so like many vaccines works on the principle or neutralised or killed pathogens, so usually fine.
However, if you cut yourself and have a tetanus shot, that contains tetanus immune globulin (TIG), and to be honest, I don't know what kind of globulin that is. Although, a lot of prophylaxis medication comes from bovine sources.
So maybe in this case prevention is better than cure?
Basically though, seeing as tetanus can be fatal, even if it wasn't vegan, it's one of those things a lot of people would bend on, especially for their children.
I had anti - D, knowing full well it came from a cow, but the other option was a large chance my baby would die in the womb.
Re: Are tetanus jabs vegan?
Probably not. The vaccines which I have received were grown within chicken eggs. Did they ask you if you are allergic to eggs? BTW, there is a "vaccines" thread.
Re: Are tetanus jabs vegan?
Re: Vaccinations - yes or no?
I have had vaccines... when I was a child and 3 or 4 years ago there was some vaccination in the Netherlands against something... I hadn't thought much about it... but now I am a vegan I read some things about vaccination and I read that is dangerous to have vaccins because viruses can become resistent against the vaccins and can transform in much dangerous forms. There are some sites about vaccins and why not to have it... also I don't trust medicines/vaccins anymore because they are animal tested. Also I don't want to have vaccins because they use animals to grow the vaccins on...
When I have children I think I will not give them vaccinations. Maybe only when there are no animals used to make them... but that will not happen I think..
And it is also a good reason not to put them in danger... I heard that some children die because of serious side effects of vaccination.
Re: Vaccinations - yes or no?
We have had our child vaccinated, as like Tails, I've seen what happens when you don't.
Also, working with learning disabilities, I have also seen people who were perfectly normal until they had vaccinations as children, and suffered severe reactions. It did scare me and make me question vaccinations a lot, but I saw more children who'd suffered from the diseases, and ended up with permanent disabilities, than I saw children who'd had reactions. You'd be amazed how many of the people in group homes had meningitis, measles, etc as children, and it left them permanently brain damaged.
I myself am well and truly pumped full of vaccinations, I even had the multi-injection abdominal rabies jab years and years ago.
Nowadays my immune status is checked regularly as my job exposes me to all sorts of diseases.
NHS hospitals won't employ you without immune status, but I once knew an agency HCA who caught hepatitis A, and it's just not worth it.
The problem is, if everyone stops vaccinating their children you will see a return of such things a polio, and we have already seen the return of TB.
There was a case of Diptheria a while back, which was luckily caught in time. It used to be a HUGE killer of children, and all but disappeared. We really don't want it back.
The problem is you can't go back.
Once the child, or you, has the disease, it's too late to vaccinate, and the drugs used to try and save you or your child, will again be non-vegan and animal tested.
This to me is similar to the plane crash argument, would you eat meat is it was a survival situation.
Sometimes the plane crash is illness and the meat is drugs. If you'd rather die than use an animal tested drug, that's up to you, but I don't see the gain. No animals will be saved.