Yeah, I agree that "detox" is basically a bunch of hooey and can be dangerous too. A good friend of our family is big on colon cleansing and he's nearly killed himself with those herbs a couple of times. I never met a guy more obsessed with his own poop. He used to measure it. And take pictures of it. Egad.
But I've also got a bone to pick with that blogger because I'm one of the "woowoo cranks" who has done a fair bit of reading about vaccine additives and their effect on developing immune systems and I've elected to put my kid on an alternative vaccination schedule as a result of my research. While I definitely not a proponent of "chelation," I do think there is scientific evidence to support a link between excessive mercury and aluminum exposure in infants and a number of serious neurological conditions that have been on the increase in the last twenty years (since the CDC added more than a dozen new injections to their recommended vax schedule). I'll admit that the jury is still out on a lot of this stuff right now and its become a bit of a "cause celebre" at the moment. (For the record, I started researching this topic long before it was on "Oprah"...) But I don't have the luxury of just waiting to see how it all shakes out. I have a baby and I need to make informed decisions about his health right now In our case, we're going to eliminate of few of the more questionable vaccines (rotavirus, varicella, flu), delay a few (Hep A & B), breakup a few of the combo vaccines (MMR), and space the others out over a longer period of time so Oscar has a chance to process one vax before he gets exposed to another.
Ooof, sorry....don't mean to get up on a soapbox here. I should have commented in that guy's blog instead, but I don't feel like arguing with him (and you know this would probably start a stupid flame war over there...). I just get a bit annoyed when otherwise intelligent and rational people automatically assume that the medical establishment is correct about everything. Sometimes, you gotta question a higher authority. And when you're deciding between possibly scrambling your baby's brain forever or them just getting freakin' chicken pox, the choice seems pretty obvious. If that makes me a ignorant quack, so be it.
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Date: 2008-03-31 02:33 pm (UTC)But I've also got a bone to pick with that blogger because I'm one of the "woowoo cranks" who has done a fair bit of reading about vaccine additives and their effect on developing immune systems and I've elected to put my kid on an alternative vaccination schedule as a result of my research. While I definitely not a proponent of "chelation," I do think there is scientific evidence to support a link between excessive mercury and aluminum exposure in infants and a number of serious neurological conditions that have been on the increase in the last twenty years (since the CDC added more than a dozen new injections to their recommended vax schedule). I'll admit that the jury is still out on a lot of this stuff right now and its become a bit of a "cause celebre" at the moment. (For the record, I started researching this topic long before it was on "Oprah"...) But I don't have the luxury of just waiting to see how it all shakes out. I have a baby and I need to make informed decisions about his health right now In our case, we're going to eliminate of few of the more questionable vaccines (rotavirus, varicella, flu), delay a few (Hep A & B), breakup a few of the combo vaccines (MMR), and space the others out over a longer period of time so Oscar has a chance to process one vax before he gets exposed to another.
Ooof, sorry....don't mean to get up on a soapbox here. I should have commented in that guy's blog instead, but I don't feel like arguing with him (and you know this would probably start a stupid flame war over there...). I just get a bit annoyed when otherwise intelligent and rational people automatically assume that the medical establishment is correct about everything. Sometimes, you gotta question a higher authority. And when you're deciding between possibly scrambling your baby's brain forever or them just getting freakin' chicken pox, the choice seems pretty obvious. If that makes me a ignorant quack, so be it.