Immunizations????

I am not a pro-vaccination type person.  My mom passed this on to me.  She is quite fanatical in her views on modern medicine.  I was raised on home-grown and home-remedy.  While I think modern medicine can be life-saving, I follow my mom's thinking when it comes to vaccinations.  Shooting chemicals into your body that actually weaken your immune system seems foolish.  I know things like polio and rubella have been kept in check this way, and I am thankful, but things like the flu and chickenpox seem to be going overboard when it comes to immunizations.  Our state requires the Hep-B shots and the chicken pox vaccinations for every child.  Now they want to require that all children recieve a flu shot every year?  I don't think so. There is so much information out there about the link between vaccinations and autism, ADD, etc.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/14/why-vaccines-aren-t-safe.aspx

http://www.eves-best.com/vaccination-information.htm

These are a couple of sites I found with a lot of information on them. 

I have had people criticize me already because my children have the flu this year and I never had them vaccinated.  They also think that because I only medicate my children in the direst of situations, that I must be like my ma, a fanatic.  We use herbal remedies whenever possible and I get a lot of advice from this site- http://www.learningherbs.com  This site was on someone's blog, here and it has been tremendously helpful.  The garlic oil I  used on my daughter's ear infection, worked in less than 12 hours.  She hasn't had a any problems with it since.

"We are building up our immune systems."  That's what I tell my family, as we battle any virus or infection.