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vaccines cause epilepsy?

Wed, 01/31/2007 - 16:04
Topic: Parents & Caregivers
Epilepsy & vaccination In 1998, federal public health officials at the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, Public Health Service (Pediatrics; March 1998) found that a causal relationship exists between live measles vaccine and encephalopathy after analyzing cases of children who received measles vaccine alone or in the combination MMR shot and, within 15 days of vaccination, suffered neurologic signs that progressed to death or mental regression, retardation, chronic seizures, motor and sensory deficits and movement disorders.---BL Fisher http://www.nvic.org

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Re: vaccines cause epilepsy?

Submitted by cookie666 on Tue, 2010-01-05 - 02:15

If your child has been injured by a vaccine, the people who can help you are called DAN! doctors: http://www.google.com.my/search?q=dan+doctor

The method of treatment is called biomedical treatment: http://www.google.com.my/search?q=what+is+biomedical+treatment

This is your best option as conventional medicine offers nothing more than suppression of symptoms with drugs that further damage the brain.

Good luck!

If your child has been injured by a vaccine, the people who can help you are called DAN! doctors: http://www.google.com.my/search?q=dan+doctor

The method of treatment is called biomedical treatment: http://www.google.com.my/search?q=what+is+biomedical+treatment

This is your best option as conventional medicine offers nothing more than suppression of symptoms with drugs that further damage the brain.

Good luck!

Hi. My son is 11 months old,

Submitted by TALPEACE on Thu, 2017-12-07 - 10:19
Hi. My son is 11 months old, about two months ago (10-14 days after vaccination against measles, he got the vaccine early because we went to Romania and there was an plague) he began to have Seizures, mainly to roll his eyes upward. About a month ago he was diagnosed with children epilepsy. His seizures come mainly when he eats, solid food, not milk. They have not heard of anything like this in our country, which is mainly related to eating, is it related? Have you heard of such a thing? He gets Levetriracetam , twice a day 3 CC, still twitching (have Seizures) , but less. I would appreciate your help. Any advice will be welcome. Tal from Israel

Re: vaccines cause epilepsy?

Submitted by DSchmitt2 on Wed, 2010-03-17 - 17:20

I have a 3/12 year old daughter that started having seizures 9 days after her 1st MMR vaccine at 21 mon.  But that is not the first sign of something wrong with these vaccines.  At 2 months just after her vaccines she started crying uncontrollably the Dr., said it may be from the DTap shot so we decided not to give the pertussis part of the shot in the future.  With her 3rd round I waited until she was 19 months and only got the Hep B and PCV, she had no reaction.  Then the 4th round at 21 months is when she got the MMR and the Hep B.  This is when she had what they say is a febrile seizure, she was not sick and no one in the house was.  She just woke up with a fever and she was having a seizure, strange.  Funny how the 2 vaccines (pertussis and MMR) they say may cause seizures are the ones my daughter had reactions to.  I have not given her any more vaccines since then as I truly believe that this is what has triggered the seizures.  She had another seizure at 3 years of age on her birthday, which lasted at least 40 minutes and they had to use drugs to bring her out of it.  She has since been on Keppra and was doing fine until I missed a couple of doses in a row and today she had another seizure which lasted just a couple of minutes.  The Dr's will not even go there in saying that the vaccines are the cause, when I bring it up they just move on to something else.   This is what is frustrating, can't they just say well maybe but that would mean going against the BIG Drug companies.  I will not give my child any further vaccines.  They say there is evidence that says they don't cause Autism or any other problems, well I am sorry but you can't take a vaccine out of a child once they have been given it, so how can they prove this?

I have a 3/12 year old daughter that started having seizures 9 days after her 1st MMR vaccine at 21 mon.  But that is not the first sign of something wrong with these vaccines.  At 2 months just after her vaccines she started crying uncontrollably the Dr., said it may be from the DTap shot so we decided not to give the pertussis part of the shot in the future.  With her 3rd round I waited until she was 19 months and only got the Hep B and PCV, she had no reaction.  Then the 4th round at 21 months is when she got the MMR and the Hep B.  This is when she had what they say is a febrile seizure, she was not sick and no one in the house was.  She just woke up with a fever and she was having a seizure, strange.  Funny how the 2 vaccines (pertussis and MMR) they say may cause seizures are the ones my daughter had reactions to.  I have not given her any more vaccines since then as I truly believe that this is what has triggered the seizures.  She had another seizure at 3 years of age on her birthday, which lasted at least 40 minutes and they had to use drugs to bring her out of it.  She has since been on Keppra and was doing fine until I missed a couple of doses in a row and today she had another seizure which lasted just a couple of minutes.  The Dr's will not even go there in saying that the vaccines are the cause, when I bring it up they just move on to something else.   This is what is frustrating, can't they just say well maybe but that would mean going against the BIG Drug companies.  I will not give my child any further vaccines.  They say there is evidence that says they don't cause Autism or any other problems, well I am sorry but you can't take a vaccine out of a child once they have been given it, so how can they prove this?

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