vaccines cause epilepsy?

Re: vaccines cause epilepsy?

Submitted by princesscakes on Thu, 2011-07-28 - 07:18

What is the thought on yearly flu shots ?? I work in healthcare and they really push flu shots yearly to prevent a out break of some terrible flu. Do the flu shots make seizures worse if so I rather not have them . Is there any data on that ? I thought about this as I don't really like the thought of mixing more chemicals with my AEDs that could cause side effects .

Re: vaccines cause epilepsy?

Submitted by tonialpha on Tue, 2010-01-19 - 19:58

When I was being trained as a Neurodiagnostic Tech. , I only saw one young child w/ a reaction. I am sorry to read of others that have had reaction.  I pray things get better.

When I had my first baby,  I questioned this and the pediatrician reassured me that they would be fine and gave me a small ratio of 2:100,000 would get a reaction. That was in a ratio of normal patients and then told me 3,4:100,000.  He reassured me that I was very healthy not worry about it.

My second child, I was on more medication, she is very healthy and is going to high school next year.  My first is my son, he is going for his Eagle Scout and is rebuilding storage units, for people in transition during this time period. 

Re: vaccines cause epilepsy?

Submitted by pgd on Mon, 2011-01-24 - 08:58

Can some vaccines (not all vaccines) possibly cause a few cases of epilepsy here and there (not all cases of epilepsy)? Likely answer: yes (my view). The topic of vaccines is a hot topic because of business interests/business guilds. Vaccines are such a hot topic that major efforts have been made to silence discussion of vaccines (example: the United Kingdom - autism and possible linkage to the MMR vaccine). My view today is that there likely have been a few cases of epilepsy/whatever due to some vaccines or bad batches of vaccines but again, there are economic/business forces which attempt to censor discussion of the topic - forces which are similar to non-profit religions which pontificate from Salt Lake City or Mecca or Rome - aka a variation of Eisenhower's military-industrial complex aka the vaccines-industrial complex/whatever. If bad batches/whatever of vaccines cause neurological challenges, then efforts must be made to make changes here and there to reduce this/ideally prevent it. Bottomline: Do vaccines cause all of epilepsy? No, not at all. Many cases of epilepsy are due to causes other than vaccines such as car accidents, etc. In general I tend to look at vaccines a little like food additives - there are a few cases (a handful of instances) of extreme sensitivities to a few food additives but those few cases are quite different than saying all the world's neurological challenges are due to food additives or vaccines or lack of megadoses and megadoses of Vitamin C/whatever, or the fluoride in the water. Is it clear that the vaccine question can open up the possibility of litigation for damages and that threat may be such that the vaccines/industrial complex will use the tobacco industry approach: there is not a shred of evidence that tobacco causes health problems - why President Ronald Reagan even promoted the sales of Chesterfield cigarettes so we all know that smoking must be healthy, right? Why not have vaccines carry a caution label which says something like: Most persons who receive this vaccine can tolerate it, however, in a few cases side-effects can result; however, if that happens, the people responsible for the vaccines will automatically deny it and move on using the proven principle of: business as usual. Also, sorry, no refunds. Have a good day. Words: attempted humor, humor, irony, sarcasm, business as usual, hey - life is not fair, morality as defined by the Homer Simpson TV show/the All In The Family TV show (Archie Bunker), etc.