If you could protect your child and the people around him/her from contracting a potentially fatal disease, would you? Doctors recommend that every child get vaccinated, but there are so many articles online that contradict their claims. A parent finds themselves stuck in the middle, trying to make the right decision for the child they brought into this world. They carry the weight on their shoulders to love, provide and protect the child that is so small and defenseless to the world around them. Suddenly, their child becomes febrile in the middle of the night and they rush to the hospital. Upon the nurse assessment, it is discovered that the child has not been vaccinated against the many dangerous diseases that silently surround us, …show more content…
Parental exhaustion from nights of minimal sleep may have a role in the decision because it is more real to them than the actual diseases the vaccines protect their baby against. Monitoring and managing side effect symptoms can be a daunting task for an overwhelmed parent. DTap, Rotavirus, Polio, and pneumococcal and Hib vaccines are recommended in the first 6 months of life. Comparatively, the side effects of the vaccine itself is far less of a concern than the effects of diphtheria, rotavirus, polio and pneumococcal disease where all are easily passed from person to person. Severe diarrhea, vomiting, pneumonia, blood, brain and spinal infections are caused by these diseases, but some parents continue to opt out or delay shots despite being educated by their pediatricians, putting themselves and others at …show more content…
Rubella and Polio have been eradicated in the United States, diphtheria cases dropped from 100,000-200,000 cases per year to 5 cases in the last ten years, Hib, which was once the most common cause of meningitis affecting children has dropped by 99%. (CDC) Cases, as demonstrated with measles, will continue to rise if people neglect to appropriately weigh out the risks of vaccinating and not vaccinating and eventually we will be faced with an epidemic. Financial burden, loss of work, hospitalizations, not engaging our children with others due to the risk of illness, long term debilitating effects on the body and mind, or even death will become a greater issue than the fear of unsupported claims against vaccines. Not all can be protected by vaccinations alone, but as a community, we can make every effort to protect them by protecting
Should Children Get Vaccinated? All parents want to do for their children is to keep them safe and protected from anything that might potentially cause them harm, and diseases are no exception to that. One of the best ways to avoid diseases is to get vaccinated. Vaccinations are one of the greatest health developments of the 20th century, and have helped to extinguish diseases such as rubella, diphtheria, smallpox, and polio. Parents should be required to have their children vaccinated to protect
Why our children should be vaccinated Vaccines are said to be one of the greatest public health achievements in history. They date back to 1796, when Edward Jenner used cowpox material to create immunity to the smallpox disease. (Historyofvaccines.org 2014) Now over two-hundred years later they’ve helped dramatically reduce the instance of viral diseases in children. For example, old childhood diseases such as Polio, Smallpox, and Diptheria have either been completely eradicated or are rarely seen
Vaccinations should be Mandatory “Vaccines are the most effective tool we have to prevent infectious diseases… Most childhood vaccines produce immunity about 90-100% of the time” (Vaccines). If it weren’t for vaccines we would be having bad epidemics like we did in the earlier 1900’s. Vaccinations have been proven useful and highly popular among societies. Immunity is much higher when majority of the community is vaccinated. We started to have vaccines around 1885 with the rabies vaccine. Throughout
that 732,000 children were saved and 322 million cases of childhood illnesses were prevented between 1994 and 2014 due to parents preventative vaccinations. (Vaccines 1). With 732,00 children saved from death and illness there should be no question on whether parents should vaccinate their children. Vaccines are an important part of saving children’s lives, all parents should get their children vaccinated, this prevents their child from catching diseases and passing it on to other children and adults
We should be allowed to ban unvaccinated people from entering public places like Disney, museums, restaurants, or schools. The unvaccinated people will cause the spread of disease to the other people around them, not just themselves, especially in crowded places or when they participates in some activities together. Number of unvaccinated people that contracted measles, mumps, and rubella has been increasing. Scientist studies that lurking among the fantastical floats and rides of Disneyland was
own rights to their bodies and the bodies of their children, that does not mean that what they think is best for themselves or their children is best for the rest of the population they come into contact with. The majority of people associate vaccinations to babies and children under a certain age, but young adults and elders fall into the category of needing vaccinations. There is currently no federal law requiring adults or children to be vaccinated. Many positives come out of vaccinations to not
very hard to improve vaccinations and they are safe for your children. Scientists will continue to work on these vaccines to keep your children from getting sick and to completely wipe out any other types of diseases that may affect them. Vaccines have saved many children’s lives and continue to save them every day. Where is your thesis statement?, Your thesis should include the parts and the way the parts appear in the thesis it should appear in the body part of the essay. The smallpox vaccine
the children to catch disease that have been exterminated in America for decades. This will create an epidemic in this continues. In America we have vaccines to protect us, but also it affects children in going to school because they must have vaccines for the grade they are going into taken in order to be accepted into the public school. “40% of parents said children who aren’t up to date with vaccines should be excluded in schools” (Patti, Neighmond paragraph 4). There is a rise of children not
Children Vaccination Should Be Mandatory Thousands year ago, children had died every year from different type of disease like diphtheria, smallpox, polio, tetanus, whooping cough and other disease. People were getting sick and dying fairly at young ages and nobody knew what the disease is, and how to prevent it. Diphtheria alone was a deadly killer disease. There was no effective treatment for it, and most people who come to contact with it had died. The situation contained until pediatrics discovered
Good morning, the issue I will be discussing today is should vaccinations be a parental choice as it has recently been discussed in the media. I have based my arguments in riposte to the news article “no Jab, no pay policy passes in the parliament” published in abc online on 23rd November 2015. For a moment, let’s all put ourselves in the shoes of a parent. As a parent, you make educated choices about your child's health and safety every day. You research which car seat has the highest safety ratings
and teaching children how to brush their teeth. Unfortunately, nowadays, vaccines have become a very major issue because parents do not want their children to be vaccinated due to safety concerns. Most of these concerns come from information they have acquired from social media or from friends. This seems crazy, considering the fact that vaccines prevent more than two point five million deaths each year. While others may argue that vaccines can cause serious side effects, vaccines should be mandatory
children should get their vaccines. Do you think vaccines are good ? vaccine can benefit our future generation. Although believe the children should be vaccinated, because they will be healthy, some people believe that it will save life. Some people believe that the children should be vaccinated. people say that vaccine are safe. vaccinating children will protect future generation from getting a type of diseases or virus. in the other hand some people may think vaccinating their child is dangerous
the number of these diseases incredibly. Therefore, every child should be vaccinated. Being vaccinated helps protect others who are not vaccinated. The FDA constantly monitors vaccines for safety and effectiveness. Also, vaccinations help control the spread of contagious illnesses. Vaccines not only help control the spread of illnesses; it also helps keep children healthy. Parents should be mandated to have his/her child vaccinated, due to the potential risk of disease.
that can be the difference between life or death. But, what if I was to tell you that if you get were vaccinated this chance would be less likely to occur? I stand that it is important for students to be vaccinated because when they get sick, their peers around them are at risk! Being vaccinated is important to your overall health such as, diet and exercise. What students who are not vaccinated don’t realize is that vaccine-preventable diseases haven’t gone away. The viruses and bacteria that
care facilities. Whether or not vaccines should be mandatory is a hot topic currently. I believe that the United States should make it mandatory for citizens to get vaccinated. Although there are many reasons to make vaccines mandatory, there are also reasons not to vaccinate. Some who are for vaccines wonder why anyone would risk acquiring a gruesome disease when they could just simply get a shot. However, the amount of people who decide not to get vaccinated is increasing. According to pediatrician