Dr. Jay Gordon: Pertussis and iron supplements for breastfed babies

Here is an update from Dr. Jay Gordon about the so called Whooping Cough epidemic in California, and the AAP recent recommendation that Breastfed babies should receive iron supplements from age 4 months.
You know, I'd really like to know where the AAP gets it's ridiculous recommendations from?!

Very few of my patients are vaccinated according to the recommended schedules. I support parents' making this decision and have long thought that schedule is not as safe as it could be. The ultimate choice is obviously made by parents, but I share complete responsibility for the decisions they make.

In our office, we have seen quite a few children and adults with long hard coughs as we always do this time of year. Very few of these children and adults actually have pertussis. The media and the California Department of Public Health are exaggerating the threat. This is a miserable long disease, and rarely it can be dangerous to very young infants. But implying that there is a whooping epidemic is inaccurate.

The pertussis epidemic of 2010 is probably very similar to the pseudo-epidemic documented in the New York Times news story linked right here:

http://bit.ly/agMaAM

Diagnosing pertussis is very difficult and the vast majority of doctors err on the side of making the diagnosis rather than testing for the bacterium. Much of the illness around right now and being reported as whooping cough may be caused by a related bacterium called B. Parapertussis. The vaccine does not protect against this illness; it is rarely dangerous and culture growth confirmatiom for both pertussis and parapertussis bacteria is difficult. RSV and dozens of other respiratory viruses are much, much more common causes of fall and winter coughs. Again, very few coughing children and adults really have pertussis.

The accuracy of the diagnosis of the reported pertussis fatalities is very difficult to confirm. Media emphasis should focus on these deaths being almost exclusively among medically underserved children and families. The reports from public officials are not helpful in a meaningful discussion of the risks of winter illnesses and the condition of our health care system.

Breastfeed babies and toddlers, feed your family well, stay well hydrated, avoid crowds when practical and worry far less. Boring advice but more effective than the panic created by sensationalized media stories.
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The AAP recently recommended iron supplementation for breastfed babies at age four months. This report came from the Committee on Nutrition and completely contradicted the statements of real experts on the American Academy of Pediatrics' Breastfeeding Committee. The Breastfeeding Committee is issuing its own report and may demand a retraction of the iron recommendations citing possible harm from supplementing breastfeeding babies. They will soon be publishing a detailed report containing the following paragraph:

"The Clinical Report does not address potential harms nor does it discuss the difference in bioavailability of iron contained in human milk vs. iron-fortified fluids and foods. Given research that has shown potential harm in infant growth and morbidity when iron supplementation is provided to iron-sufficient infants one wonders if universal iron supplementation will be deleterious to the population of developing infants who are breastfeeding exclusively. Furthermore, in a relatively recent US study the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia is low (3%) among unsupplemented breastfed infants in the first 6 months."


Best Wishes for the Fall and Winter Season!

Jay

Dr. Jay Gordon: Pertussis and iron supplements for breastfed babies

Here is an update from Dr. Jay Gordon about the so called Whooping Cough epidemic in California, and the AAP recent recommendation that Breastfed babies should receive iron supplements from age 4 months.
You know, I'd really like to know where the AAP gets it's ridiculous recommendations from?!

Vaccinated people getting Whooping Cough

What I love about this article is that even in the face of hard statistics, the local health authorities are still pushing the vaccine envelope and trying to say that

"vaccine provides protection and it’s an important health tool to try and prevent this disease"

Even though 2 out of 3 confirmed cases of Whooping Cough are in people that are fully vaccinated!!!

Vaccinated People Getting Whooping Cough In SD

By Joanne Faryon

September 7, 2010

SAN DIEGO — A KPBS investigation has raised questions about how effective the whooping cough vaccine is in preventing people from getting sick. Nearly two out of three people diagnosed with whooping cough in San Diego County this year, were fully immunized.
California is in the midst of the worst whooping cough epidemic in 50 years. Thirty six hundred people in the state have been diagnosed with the disease. Eight babies have died since January.
KPBS examined data from San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency. Of the 332 confirmed cases of whooping cough in the county so far this year, 197 of the people who got sick were up to date with their immunizations. That's nearly 2 out of 3 cases.

 HERE to read the original article

The Whooping Cough vaccine has been considered by many health authorities to of been a complete failure, as right from the beginning of it's inception it has only provided a minimal amount of protection against the disease it was suppose to be protecting the mass inoculated population from.

"Vaccination does not necessarily imply life-long immunity for a vaccinated person. In some cases, vaccination is ineffective and fails to provide immunity at all (the so-called "primary failure"); sometimes immunity acquired through vaccination wanes and does not provide life-long protection ("secondary failure")....This is especially relevant to pertussis. The vaccine against pertussis is known to be unreliable: the immunity acquired due to vaccination wanes over time (Cullen and Walker, 1997). This leads to the question of how effective is the vaccination in reality....The obtained figures indicate that in New Zealand the effective vaccination rate against pertussis is lower than 50%, and perhaps even as low as 33% of the population. These figures contradict the medical statistics which claim that more than 80% of the newborns in New Zealand are vaccinated against pertussis (Turner et al., 2000). This contradiction is due to the mentioned unreliability of the available vaccine. The fact that the fraction of immune population obtained here is considerably lower than the fraction of vaccinated population implies a high level of vaccination failure. We believe that we can safely conclude that under the current conditions (with the present vaccine and the current vaccination practice) the effective vaccination rate against pertussis in New Zealand is considerably lower than is expected. Based on the present data it is perhaps lower than 50% of the population."

HERE to read the entire article

When you also consider the fact that Whooping Cough statistics (scroll down to the Pertussis graph) show that the disease incidence and deaths had dropped drastically prior to the start of mass immunizations. and given the the fact that the vaccine may work in only as little as 33%-50% of the population....we need to ask ourselves:  WHY are we injecting these chemicals and toxins into our children's bodies? 

Another important point that many people seem to miss when they talk about vaccines is the fact that these mass inoculations may be leading to the creation of super viruses.  In the original article above, the final paragraph speaks volumes about this vaccine in particular, and most vaccines in general:

"Research in the Netherlands suggests the bacterium which causes whooping cough, or pertussis, may be mutating and contributing to whooping cough outbreaks worldwide."

"Mutating" because of the vaccines. This is a scientifically provable fact.  Something to think about, eh?