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With the spate of publicity surrounding the possible health risks posed by childhood immunization, parents are no longer simply following doctor's orders and automatically having their children vaccinated. Instead, they are asking questions. The problem is the search for answers only leads parents to conflicting, one-sided information: doctors claim that parents are endangering their child's life if they refuse shots, while radical vaccine opponents claim parents are endangering their child's life if they accept shots. With THE VACCINE BOOK, parents finally have one, fair, impartial, fact-based resource they can turn to for answers. Each chapter is devoted to a disease/vaccine pair and offer a comprehensive discussion of what the disease is, how common or rare it is, how serious or harmless it is, the ingredients of the vaccine, and any possible side effects from the vaccine. Ultimately, parents will have to make their own informed decisions as Dr. Bob Sears is neither pro-vaccine nor anti-vaccine. But THE VACCINE BOOK will provide exactly the information parents want and need as they make their way through the vaccination maze.

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Sears, coauthor of several books in the Sears Parenting series, addresses one of today's most controversial and worrisome questions. Sears' goal is "to give you a balanced look at pros and cons of vaccination so that you can make an educated decision." Sears does not advocate for or rail against vaccination, stating it doesn't have to be an all or nothing decision-there are choices. The first 12 chapters discuss each vaccination in the childhood series, providing explanation of the relative disease, how the vaccine is made and points to assess a child's at-risk level when considering if the vaccine is necessary. Sears does offer guidance for those who are indecisive, offering his opinion based on clinical experience and 13 years of research taken from product inserts, pediatric reference books, articles and databases. Additional chapters illuminate more controversial aspects of the debate, such as how vaccine safety is researched and what the findings are, side effects and how to minimize them, common myths and questions. As always, Sears' tone puts readers at ease as he clearly explains medical terms and elucidates debates.
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An exhaustively researched guidebook. (Newsday)

It's the most evenhanded and thorough look at baby immunizations we've yet seen. (Babytalk)

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Series: Sears Parenting Library
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (October 22, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780316017503
ISBN-13: 978-0316017503
ASIN: 0316017507
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
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Rachel D.

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September 28, 2010

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This book does a really nice job presenting each disease that the vaccines are meant to cover. Dr. Sears does a thorough job presenting the contents of the various vaccines and the issues involved with clustering shots and using cocktails. He does present a lot of facts about each shot and the risks vs. the pros of vaccinating. I would give a word of caution though. When he shares the study on MMR that originally gave rise to the debate, he does not disclose that this study was based on 12 patients and the researching doctor later lost his license for his misuse/misrepresentation of the results. Although the results I think are still interesting and thought provoking, check out a few websites that give a cautionary tale to the MMR/autism debate: check out Paul Offit and Autisms False Prophets to get the other side of the story. Also I do recommend reading what the CDC has to say about their vaccination schedule on immunize.org and Healthychildren.org. It is helpful to go into your doctor's office with some well-informed questions on the issue. Basically the book raises a few issues: weighing the strengths/weaknesses of each vaccination, ranking the diseases and vaccinations that he feels are a must vs. the ones that might be optional, giving factors that affect your child's risk for developing these diseases, discussing the dangers of combining vaccinations, and touching on the issues in the MMR debate. I will say this, I don't think his presentation of the MMR issue is thorough enough. You need to do a lot more research on this topic. One great feature of the book is his recommended alternative vaccination schedule based on limiting a child's exposure to preservatives such as aluminum and mercury in each schedule, limiting the number of live vaccines a child has to process per vaccination visit, and making a determination of how soon your child should receive each vaccination based on their exposure risk (ie. whether or not they are in day care, are being breast-fed etc...). I would say this also as a caution, be sure to have a discussion with your doctor before you decide to delay or opt out of a vaccine. For example, I raised some questions with my doctor recently about the MMR and my concerns of the shot now being only offered as a cocktail rather than individual vaccines (an issue I have the the pharmaceutical companies). Her comment was that while the measles for example or the chicken pox is not deadly for children, it can develop secondary issues that can be deadly. Her comment was that the bigger growing problem recently with diseases such as these is that children because they have open wounds get staff infections (which are highly resistant to antiobiotics) which endanger the child more than the primary disease. So there is more to consider than the author addresses. It is a good starting point for just understanding the basics of the childhood diseases that the CDC's vaccine schedule addresses.

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Shows both sides so you can make a truly informed decision.

December 22, 2009

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I constantly refer back to this book all the time. I'm glad I have this in my parenting library. It is well worth it. As a first time parent, I had the fear of vaccines put in me with all the controversy surrounding them, but I was also afraid of leaving her vulnerable to diseases.

I had to know more, and this book tells you everything you need to know. It tells you the common reactions and rare but dangerous risks associated with each vaccine, symptoms of reactions, how Dr. Sears came to his conclusions/did his math/did his research, what ingredients are in each vaccine, how common/rare or dangerous/benign each disease is that is prevented by each vaccine, the government recommended schedule, an alternative schedule for parents who want the minimum amount of vaccines, and his recommended schedule... Plus much much more...

This book will help any parent make an informed decision either way and feel confident that they made good decisions. Yes, Dr. Sears shows you that there are many decisions to be made. It's not all or nothing unless you want it to be. You have lots of options that he outlines for you. I feel like I can trust this book because it's not one sided. It seems difficult to trust anyone who wants you to blindly trust any argument and even withholds information from you in order to convince you of their side, but Dr. Sears is the only one so far who doesn't do that. He seems to lean one way more than the other but also respects and understands the other side of the argument. Furthermore, he doesn't agree completely with the side he's on and doesn't base his decisions on just one way of doing things. He does them his own way, which every parent has a right to do, and every parent has a right to be informed when they make decisions for the heatlh of their children.

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Good and balanced book

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As a FTM, I've been reading about vaccines, the good and the bad, before my baby's arrival. I want to make an informed decision and I found Dr's Sears' book well balanced, providing the information you need to know in order to make that decision. However, I didn't give the book a five star rating as I believe it needs to be updated. This book's information and analysis is current as of 2007 and the world of vaccines changes rapidly as new data become available and more research are published. Also, I found the books' chapter on statistical analysis a bit flawed (I do that for a living). Having said that, I enjoyed the book and it gave me enough information at this point in time. I wish an update is published soon.

The other area I thought would be good to understand and that I didn't see included is why the CDC recommends a vaccine to be given at, for example, 2 months vs. 4 months. Dr Sears just outlines the CDC recommendation without expanding into the why they reached that conclusion or even sayIng that there's no research to back such decision. For instance, the first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine is given at birth, why at birth rather than 1 month or 2? The rest of the info he does include and some of the explanations he expands upon are very helpful.

I do recommend this book as a must read for anyone (regardless of what side of the debate you're on) looking to make an informed decision about vaccines.

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