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Before vaccinating your child, ask your pediatrician how each disease is transmitted, how common or rare it is, how serious it is, how it is treated, and what age group it generally affects. You should also know how to boost your child’s immune system to prevent these diseases. We are all exposed to millions of germs every day, and vaccines only cover a tiny fraction of one percent of these germs. So we must rely on our immune system to fight off most potential infections. Most vaccine side effects involve the immune system reacting poorly to the vaccine, so ensuring a healthy immune system is one way parents can decrease their child’s risk of a vaccine reaction. Here are a few things you can do: ·Minimize sugar and junk food. Sugar weakens the immune system. Minimize sugary foods for several weeks prior to vaccines. · Minimize chemical exposures. The small amounts of chemicals in vaccines are unavoidable. But we can control this exposure in the foods we feed our kids. Serve organic foods as much as possible, beginning with baby foods. A baby’s growing brain and developing immune system are very susceptible to chemical influences. · Use omega-3 oil supplements. Most children are deficient in the healthy omega-3 fats, since the main dietary source is fish and eggs, foods that most kids don’t eat enough of. Fish oils that are tested and found to be mercury free, and can improve many aspects of a child’s health, including the immune system. Many of my patients enjoy the Brainy Kidz Omega-3 DHA fruit chews that are Safe Source guaranteed for purity. · Fruits and vegetables. Very few children get enough of these. The immune-boosting content of all natural, chewable fruit, veggie, and berry supplements can really help prevent infectious diseases and may limit vaccine reactions. My recommendations for a vaccination schedule, available at askdrsears.com, protects kids from serious childhood diseases while minimizing exposure to chemical ingredients and reducing side effects. Among those recommendations are: · Give only two vaccines at any one time, instead of as many as six. · Choose vaccine brands that have the lowest chemical content and safest ingredient profile. · Provide babies with the most important vaccines first to protect them against the most serious infant diseases. · Supplement vaccines with nutritional immunizations for overall healthy body function and growth. Nutritional immunization is providing your child with the nutrients essential to healthy childhood development and in warding off diseases. We vaccinate children against mumps and measles. It makes just as much sense to provide them with the nutrients needed to help ensure such things as Omega 3 for proper brain development. A vaccine can only do so much. It’s the daily decisions we make for our children that will make a huge difference in their overall wellbeing. To learn more about vaccinations and nutritional immunization, visit www.AskDrSears.com. www.HealthNewsDigest.com Top of Page 
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