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Newborn Babies Start Their Lives On A Cocktail Of Drugs
Date: 10/02/12
Keywords: , Anti-Depressant, Anti-inflammatory, Autism, drug interactions, dna damage, Immune System, Immunity, Vaccination
Many years ago a friend of mine lost a newborn to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). I'll spare you the details — as you can imagine, it was heart wrenching.
After seeing the emotional toll that experience took on my friend, it's hard for me to fathom the depth of pain hidden in the cold, hard statistics of infant mortality rates (IMR).
IMR is the number of deaths of children less than one year old, per 1,000 live births. And any individual country's IMR is generally regarded as a sort of snapshot of that country's overall health conditions.
So how is it possible that the UK and the US, with such supposed advanced levels of health care, are placed between 30 and 45 on the worldwide IMR list? (UK - 32, US - 45)
That's actually worse than Slovenia, Estonia and Andorra!
Many years ago a friend of mine lost a newborn to sudden
infant death syndrome (SIDS). I'll spare you the details —
as you can imagine, it was heart wrenching.
After seeing the emotional toll that experience took on my friend, it's hard for me to fathom the depth of pain hidden in the cold, hard statistics of infant mortality rates (IMR).
IMR is the number of deaths of children less than one year old, per 1,000 live births. And any individual country's IMR is generally regarded as a sort of snapshot of that country's overall health conditions.
So how is it possible that the UK and the US, with such supposed advanced levels of health care, are placed between 30 and 45 on the worldwide IMR list? (UK - 32, US - 45)
That's actually worse than Slovenia, Estonia and Andorra!
It's baffling.
Or... maybe it's not.
Tough schedule
If your doctor suggested you get more than two dozen doses of vaccines next year, you might wonder if all those different medications, given in a relatively short period of time, might have some negative effects.
And yet, this is what we do to millions of newborns every year.
Immunization schedules in both the US and UK involve giving than 10 vaccines in the first year. In the US, it's 26 vaccine doses — more than any other country in the world.
So, a team of independent researchers wondered how all the countries in the top 34 of the IMR list would compare in terms of the number of vaccines required for infants.
In an issue of Human & Experimental Toxicology published earlier this year, the researchers found "a high statistically significant correlation between increasing number of vaccine doses and increasing infant mortality rates."
Red flag!
But don't think this is leading to an anti-vaccine rant. An excessive load of first-year vaccines seems like a risky way to welcome an infant into the world, but we can't jump to the conclusion that this huge set of vaccines is the actual cause of infant deaths.
Here's what strikes me as much more likely: All those vaccines represent a "symptom" of a culture with a too-much-is-never-enough attitude toward synthetic drugs.
Just imagine, for instance, how many women discover they're pregnant while taking a variety of drugs — everything from acetaminophen for headaches, to a daily antacid, a statin, an antidepressant, a NSAID for joint pain, etc. In those cases, every foetus starts off in an environment awash in pharmaceuticals.
In addition, the excessive use of Pitocin (the synthetic hormone that hurries labour) might play a role. Many foetuses share a dose of anaesthesia with their mothers during the labour. And artificial measures to boost fertility could also come into play.
It seems quite possible that all these factors, combined with a massive vaccine load, are just too much for some infants to bear.
And if that's the case, then the deplorable IMR might be the RESULT of our advanced health care, not in spite of it. Because that "advanced" status comes with a promise that each new drug and vaccine provides wonderful benefits that, only make us better, not worse.
But as we've seen again and again, that promise is often little more than wishful thinking — fingers crossed!
This simple study points the way to much-needed research. We owe it to every infant and every parent to follow that thread, because there's no excuse for a 3rd World level of IMR in first world countries.
Sources:
"Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity?" Human & Experimental Toxicology, Vol. 30, No. 9, September 2011, het.sagepub.com
"Carbon Monoxide — The Silent Calmer?" American Friends / Tel Aviv University, 11/8/11, aftau.org
Back to topAfter seeing the emotional toll that experience took on my friend, it's hard for me to fathom the depth of pain hidden in the cold, hard statistics of infant mortality rates (IMR).
IMR is the number of deaths of children less than one year old, per 1,000 live births. And any individual country's IMR is generally regarded as a sort of snapshot of that country's overall health conditions.
So how is it possible that the UK and the US, with such supposed advanced levels of health care, are placed between 30 and 45 on the worldwide IMR list? (UK - 32, US - 45)
That's actually worse than Slovenia, Estonia and Andorra!
It's baffling.
Or... maybe it's not.
Tough schedule
If your doctor suggested you get more than two dozen doses of vaccines next year, you might wonder if all those different medications, given in a relatively short period of time, might have some negative effects.
And yet, this is what we do to millions of newborns every year.
Immunization schedules in both the US and UK involve giving than 10 vaccines in the first year. In the US, it's 26 vaccine doses — more than any other country in the world.
So, a team of independent researchers wondered how all the countries in the top 34 of the IMR list would compare in terms of the number of vaccines required for infants.
In an issue of Human & Experimental Toxicology published earlier this year, the researchers found "a high statistically significant correlation between increasing number of vaccine doses and increasing infant mortality rates."
Red flag!
But don't think this is leading to an anti-vaccine rant. An excessive load of first-year vaccines seems like a risky way to welcome an infant into the world, but we can't jump to the conclusion that this huge set of vaccines is the actual cause of infant deaths.
Here's what strikes me as much more likely: All those vaccines represent a "symptom" of a culture with a too-much-is-never-enough attitude toward synthetic drugs.
Just imagine, for instance, how many women discover they're pregnant while taking a variety of drugs — everything from acetaminophen for headaches, to a daily antacid, a statin, an antidepressant, a NSAID for joint pain, etc. In those cases, every foetus starts off in an environment awash in pharmaceuticals.
In addition, the excessive use of Pitocin (the synthetic hormone that hurries labour) might play a role. Many foetuses share a dose of anaesthesia with their mothers during the labour. And artificial measures to boost fertility could also come into play.
It seems quite possible that all these factors, combined with a massive vaccine load, are just too much for some infants to bear.
And if that's the case, then the deplorable IMR might be the RESULT of our advanced health care, not in spite of it. Because that "advanced" status comes with a promise that each new drug and vaccine provides wonderful benefits that, only make us better, not worse.
But as we've seen again and again, that promise is often little more than wishful thinking — fingers crossed!
This simple study points the way to much-needed research. We owe it to every infant and every parent to follow that thread, because there's no excuse for a 3rd World level of IMR in first world countries.
Sources:
"Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity?" Human & Experimental Toxicology, Vol. 30, No. 9, September 2011, het.sagepub.com
"Carbon Monoxide — The Silent Calmer?" American Friends / Tel Aviv University, 11/8/11, aftau.org
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