Each of my girls had weird fainting, weakness, or blurred visions experiences in middle school. I did get them vaxxed up to that point, but once they started pushing Gardasil when there was little data to support, I stopped taking them to annual appointments. I didn't like how my pediatrician was acting. He couldn't look me straight in the eye. All he could say was if he had a daughter he would have her take it. I have no regrets not getting it for them. None of them had any issues all through high school with no annual appointments or reasons to go to the doctor or urgent care outside of physicals required for sports. I never did flu shots for any of us because I always consider it a moving target.
Gardasil in all its iterations is the worst before Covid jabs in my opinion: very high aluminum levels lead to high adverse reactions, the jab is prone to immune escape from targeted HPV strains which is why they went from the old HPV 4 to HPV 9, and cervical cancers and infertility rose in tandem, in younger women, with the administration of these shots. And also you are correct that your boys do not have a cervix. So that's the easiest one to argue. Meningitis is a little trickier but I know I saw a good article on Children's Health Defense showing that that jab essentially made no difference in rates of meningitis, just types that occurred. DTAP for me is one of these exposure based ones that I would be willing to accept in very limited circumstances, that being that I or my child stepped on a rusty nail in a barn which is not bleeding (tetanus can only spread anerobically without oxygen). I would ask for tetanus toxoid in those circumstances but might be willing to take the hit if it was not available. Diptheria (The D part of TDAP) hasn't been around for decades and Pertussis (whooping cough) is prone to immune escape. If you son has had these in the past 10 years it should be enough to provide some protection. But on triage baby steps at a doctor's office good luck to you...
No Guardasil! I know a youth who GOT hpv from the HPV SHOT, in his THROAT, he must get it scraped out occasionally and his voice is almost inaudable. He was fine before the shot and got it within 6 months of the shot.
Each of my girls had weird fainting, weakness, or blurred visions experiences in middle school. I did get them vaxxed up to that point, but once they started pushing Gardasil when there was little data to support, I stopped taking them to annual appointments. I didn't like how my pediatrician was acting. He couldn't look me straight in the eye. All he could say was if he had a daughter he would have her take it. I have no regrets not getting it for them. None of them had any issues all through high school with no annual appointments or reasons to go to the doctor or urgent care outside of physicals required for sports. I never did flu shots for any of us because I always consider it a moving target.
Thanks Dr Flurm, I am facing this very situation with my 12 year old daughter so very useful information and graphs. I think I will say : hard no
Regarding DTAP decision,
This Substack has a post per vaccine for many of them, including Tetanus Diptheria Pertussis.
https://drkevinstillwagon.substack.com/archive?sort=new
Tetanus
https://drkevinstillwagon.substack.com/p/the-silent-killers-a0c
Diphtheria
https://drkevinstillwagon.substack.com/p/the-silent-killers-fac
Pertussis
https://drkevinstillwagon.substack.com/p/the-silent-killers-bc0
Gardasil in all its iterations is the worst before Covid jabs in my opinion: very high aluminum levels lead to high adverse reactions, the jab is prone to immune escape from targeted HPV strains which is why they went from the old HPV 4 to HPV 9, and cervical cancers and infertility rose in tandem, in younger women, with the administration of these shots. And also you are correct that your boys do not have a cervix. So that's the easiest one to argue. Meningitis is a little trickier but I know I saw a good article on Children's Health Defense showing that that jab essentially made no difference in rates of meningitis, just types that occurred. DTAP for me is one of these exposure based ones that I would be willing to accept in very limited circumstances, that being that I or my child stepped on a rusty nail in a barn which is not bleeding (tetanus can only spread anerobically without oxygen). I would ask for tetanus toxoid in those circumstances but might be willing to take the hit if it was not available. Diptheria (The D part of TDAP) hasn't been around for decades and Pertussis (whooping cough) is prone to immune escape. If you son has had these in the past 10 years it should be enough to provide some protection. But on triage baby steps at a doctor's office good luck to you...
My boys are a similar age.
They were offered those jabs last year and i refused them all.
No Guardasil! I know a youth who GOT hpv from the HPV SHOT, in his THROAT, he must get it scraped out occasionally and his voice is almost inaudable. He was fine before the shot and got it within 6 months of the shot.