The otherwise healthy grandaughter of a family friend just returned from her 4 month check-up where they gave her the second DPT shot. The proud grandmother has been sending pictures by email of her beutiful happy grandbaby. The pediatrician gave her a clean bill of health. Within days of the Doctor's visit, her grandaughter passed away in the night. The baby was determined to have died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome(SIDS). What a tagedy but could it have been prevented or the liklihood of occurence reduced?
Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Is There a Link?
Excerpted from the book:
Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective... by
Neil Z. Miller
A study published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association found that children diagnosed with asthma (a
respiratory ailment not unlike SIDS) were five times more likely than not to
have received pertussis vaccine.(1) Another study found that babies die at a
rate eight times greater than normal within three days after getting a DPT
shot.(2) The three primary doses of DPT are given at two months, four months,
and six months. About 85 percent of SIDS cases occur at one through six
months, with the peak incidence at age two to four months.
In
a recent scientific study of SIDS, episodes of apnea (cessation of breathing)
and hypopnea (abnormally shallow breathing) were measured before and after
DPT vaccinations. "Cotwatch" (a precise breathing monitor) was used, and the
computer printouts it generated (in integrals of the weighted apnea-hypopnea
density -- WAHD) were analyzed. The data clearly shows that vaccination caused
an extraordinary increase in episodes where breathing either nearly ceased or
stopped completely. These episodes continued for months following
vaccinations. Dr. Viera Scheibner, the author of the study, concluded that
"vaccination is the single most prevalent and most preventable cause of infant
deaths."(3) (See the diagram below.)
![[DPT & SIDS Study #1]](http://curezone.com/forums/images/dptsids1.jpg)
In another study of 103 children who died of SIDS,
Dr. William Torch, of the University of Nevada School of Medicine at Reno,
found that more than two-thirds had been vaccinated with DPT prior to death.
Of these, 6.5 percent died within 12 hours of vaccination; 13 percent within
24 hours; 26 percent within three days; and 37, 61, and 70 percent within one,
two, and three weeks, respectively (see the diagram below). He also found that
SIDS frequencies have a bimodal-peak occurrence at two and four months -- the
same ages when initial doses of DPT are administered to infants.(4)
![[DPT & SIDS Study #2]](http://curezone.com/forums/images/dptsids2.jpg)
The following excerpt is from a statement made by a
distraught grandmother testifying before the Committee on Labor and Human
Resources, regarding vaccine injury compensation:
"My name is Donna Gary. I am a constituent of Senator
Kennedy's from Massachusetts. Our family should have celebrated our very first
granddaughter's first birthday last month. Instead, we will commemorate the
anniversary of her death at the end of this month.
"Our granddaughter, Lee Ann, was just 8 weeks old
when her mother took her to the doctor for her routine checkup. That included,
of course, her first DPT inoculation and oral polio vaccine. "In all her
entire 8 weeks of life this lovable, extremely alert baby had never produced
such a blood-curdling scream as she did at the moment the shot was given.
Neither had her mother ever before seen her back arch as it did while she
screamed. She was inconsolable. Even her daddy could not understand Lee Ann's
uncharacteristic screaming and crying.
"Four hours later Lee Ann was dead. 'Crib death,' the
doctor said -- 'SIDS.' 'Could it be connected to the shot?' her parents
implored.' 'No.' 'But she just had her first DPT shot this afternoon. Could
there possibly be any connection to it?' 'No, no connection at all,' the
emergency room doctor said definitely.
"My husband and I hurried to the hospital the
following morning after Lee Ann's death to talk with the pathologist before
the autopsy. We wanted to make sure he was alerted to her DPT inoculation such
a short time before her death -- just in case there was something else he
could look for to make the connection. He was unavailable to talk with us. We
waited two-and-a-half hours. Finally, we got to talk to another doctor after
the autopsy had been completed. He said it was 'SIDS.'
"In the months before Lee Ann was born I regularly
checked with a friend as to the state of her grandchild's condition. He is
nearly a year-and-a-half older than Lee Ann. On his first DPT shot he passed
out cold for 15 minutes, right in the pediatrician's office. 'Normal reaction
for some children,' the pediatrician reassured. The parents were scared, but
they knew what a fine doctor they had. They trusted his judgment.
"When it was time for the second shot they asked 'Are
you sure it's all right? Is it really necessary?' Their pediatrician again
reassured them. He told them how awful it was to experience, as he had, one of
his infant patient's bout with whooping cough. That baby had died.
"They gave him his second DPT shot that day. He
became brain-damaged.
"This past week I had an opportunity to read through
printed copies of the hearings of this committee. I am dismayed to learn that
this same talk has been going on for years, and nothing has seemed to progress
to incorporate what seems so obvious and necessary to keep from destroying any
more babies, and to compensate financially those who have already been damaged
for life.
"How accurate are our statistics on adverse reactions
to vaccines when parents have been told, are still being told, 'No connection
to the shot, no connection at all?'
"What about the mother I have recently talked with
who has a 4-year-old brain-damaged son? On all three of his DPT shots he had a
convulsion in the presence of the pediatrician. 'No connection,' the
pediatrician assured.
"I talked with a father in a town adjoining ours
whose son died at the age of 9 weeks, several months before our own
granddaughter's death. It was the day after his DPT inoculation. 'SIDS' is the
statement on the death certificate.
"Are the statistics that the medical world loves to
quote to say, 'There is no connection,' really accurate, or are they based on
poor diagnoses, poor recordkeeping? What is being done to provide a safer
vaccine? Who is overseeing? Will it be the same scientists and doctors who
have been overseeing in the past? How much longer does the public have to
wait? How are physicians and clinics going to be held accountable to see that
parents are informed of the possible reactions? And how are those children who
should not receive the vaccine to be identified before they are damaged -- or
dead?
"Today is the National Day of Prayer. My prayer is
that this committee be instrumental in doing what needs to be done -- and
soon. May there not be yet another year pass by with more children afflicted,
and some dead, because those who can do so refuse to 'make the right
connection.'"(5)
PERSONAL STORIES:
Our beautiful
daughter was born on February 14 and died on April 17. What was unusual was
that earlier on the day she died I had taken her to the Military Base hospital
for her two month checkup. The doctor told me that she was just perfect. Then
the doctor said that she needed four shots. I replied Four!? She assured me
that it was completely normal and that it was better to give her all at such
an early age (because she wouldn't remember the shots). That evening after
feeding [our daughter] we laid her down to sleep and checked on her 45 minutes
later and discovered her dead. I told the police, coroner and investigators
that I thought it was the shots because she was perfectly fine that day and
before the shots. But after 3 weeks we finally got the answer from the autopsy
that it was indeed SIDS. To this day I believe that it was the shots and no
one can convince me otherwise.
Thank you for your informative website. My eight-week-old daughter is
scheduled to get her first dose of vaccines next week, but this website has
helped change my mind. I didn't feel she should receive her first dose of the
Hep B vaccine when she was one day old and I refused to let them give it to
her despite the pressure by hospital staff. I have been to the funeral of a
baby who supposedly died of SIDS. The mother swears it was from vaccinations
because her daughter had been vaccinated 3 days before and had a hugely
swollen leg and was throwing up after receiving the shots. Seeing the baby
girl lying dead in her bassinet at the funeral, I can't bring myself to put my
own daughter at risk. Only after becoming a parent can I begin to understand
the pain that so many of these families hurt by vaccinations are going
through. I have a horrible feeling about having my daughter vaccinated, and
after seeing this website and a little girl lying cold and still I refuse to
put my baby in danger. I hope more parents listen to their instincts. Thank
you!
I am writing this to share my story of the effects vaccinations have
had on my children. First, I would like to start off with my 3 living
children. My son and my daughter both had reactions to DTaP on 2 occasions. I
was told the first time that their reactions had nothing to do with the shots,
so I allowed further vaccines. Upon recieving the 4th dose of DTaP, both of
them had swollen, red, hard, and hot legs, and both were blistered at the
sight of injection. I became very concerned at this point, but was told it was
a minor reaction. Less then a year later, I delivered my 4th child, a
daughter. I noticed that anytime she was vaccinated she would spike a fever of
104.2F and had respiratory problems. Again, I was told this had nothing to do
with the shots. I then read, "A Shot In the Dark", and this raised my concerns
for my children when they were due to have further vaccines. I decided against
further immunizations for my kids. My son is now going into kindergarten and I
knew a requirement was that he have boosters. I attained a religous exemption
form to avoid the shots and will do so for my girls as well. Since the
reactions of my children, I have been seeking more information about adverse
effects of vaccines. On August 29, 2003, after an argument with my childrens'
pediatrician about this subject, I came home and found your website. As I was
looking through I found where you linked SIDS with the DTaP. This is where my
story becomes devastating. In 1995, I had a child die of SIDS. After reading
your information, I dug out his shot records and baby book only to find that
he had the DTaP just 3 weeks prior to his death, and during those 3 weeks, my
records show that I had him to the pediatrician 4 times for respiratory
infection and 2 times to the emergency room for respiratory distress related
to the "diagnosed" upper respiratory infections. These symptoms began within 2
days after the administration of the shot! [My son] was last seen in the E.R.
on 10-29-95 for this reason. He died on November 1, 1995 of SIDS. I am
convinced after my research that the DTaP is responsible for his death.
Furthermore, the 3 precious children I have left will not recieve another
vaccine! I am grieving the loss of my son all over again, but I thank you
because without having read your information I would have never known the link
between vaccines and SIDS or any of the other new information I have learned,
and could have been persuaded to continue to vaccinate the others. I am
thankful for your insights, and am relieved to have the confusion of
vaccinating over. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that shots are not for my
family, and not in their best interests. I have also concluded that the
medical business is one big industry, a viscous cycle, to be blunt, a cycle to
keep bringing in business by injecting heathy children with germs and toxic
additives so that a percentage of them can come back and rack up more exspense
in X amount of years with cancers, immune disease etc. I also question now the
diagnosis of my [first] son. He has been diagnosed with ADHD, and has
consistent behavior problems. I will continue to search your sight as well as
others to find the answers. If you have any statistics or ideas, I would
appreciate that input. Again, thank you for your release of knowledge.
Excerpted from the book:
References
1. Michel
Odent, et al., "Pertussis Vaccination and Asthma: Is There a Link?" J. of
the American Medical Association, (Aug 24/31, 1994), pp. 592-3.
2. J. M.
Fine and L. C. Chen, "Confounding in studies of adverse reactions to
vaccines," American Journal of Epidemiology, 136, (1992), pp. 121-35.
3. Dr.
Viera Scheibner and Leif Karlsson, "Association Between Non-Specific Stress
Syndrome, DPT Injections, and Cot Death," (2nd Immunization Conference,
Canberra, Australia, May 27-29, 1991).
4. W. C.
Torch, "Diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) immunization: A potential cause of
the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)," (Amer. Academy of Neurology, 34th
Annual Meeting, Apr 25 - May 1, 1982), Neurology 32(4), pt. 2.
5.
Vaccine Injury Compensation. Hearing Before the Committee on Labor and
Human Resources; 98th Congress, 2nd Session, (May 3, 1984), pp. 63-67.
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