When Emma Lies the daughter, Agnes, recently got his first vaccination, it happened two months later than those of her peers who have also been vaccinated.
Emma Lie and her doctor has, in fact, in the consultations organised a special immunisation programme for her five-month-old daughter. This means, among other things, that the vaccinations are split up, so vaccinated against fewer diseases at a time and over a longer period of time.
Emma Lie says, that it was actually supposed that Agnes should not be vaccinated.
– I went to the doctor with the starting point that my daughter would not be vaccinated, but came out with a belief that vaccination was an option, she says.
Therefore planned she, in consultation with a private doctor vaccinationsforløbet. Emma Lie says, that she with the alternative vaccination programme feel more comfortable to let his daughter be vaccinated:
– I could organise it in a way where it will not be so intense for her body and immune system. Whether you choose to vaccinate or not, so it is a choice with many unknowns factors. And I think that my child deserves, I have taken a reasoned choice. Therefore, I feel very comfortable with my choice, which suits well to our little family, she says.
At the Statens Serum Institute believes, however, that the basic is a bad idea to do the alternative vaccination programmes.
– We believe that there is no reason to split the vaccines up, and that it is a really bad idea to deviate from the recommendations, says head of section for vaccineforebyggelige diseases at Statens Serum Institut, Palle Valentiner-Branth.
He rejects that there are fewer risks by staggering the vaccinations. On the contrary.
– There is nothing that suggests that the child is being overloaded by to get the vaccines at the same time. You should adhere to the vaccination programme, because it is built up in a way where the child will quickly become protected against the diseases, the risk that the meeting is early in life. With, for example, the whooping cough one would like to protect as quickly as possible, because we know that the disease is very serious and can be life-threatening for small children, he says.
According to Palle Valentiner-Branth, however, it is preferable for children to be vaccinated with alternatively organised vaccination programmes, rather than not at all.
the Recommendations included in the childhood immunisation programme has not come out of thin air. But if the alternative is that the child does not get vaccines, so it is better to get them – even with delays – than not at all, ” he says.
Emma and I think that the debate about vaccines in Denmark has been too single-minded, and that it can be difficult to get the law to express doubt about whether to let their children being vaccinated.
– When one does not vaccinate her children, one meets so much resistance. You do not listen to them, who choose not to vaccinate, and they are often udskammet with the same, she says.
this is Why Emma and I appreciate the fact that her own doctor came to meet her. She is now calling on others who have doubts about vaccines to talk with their doctors:
– It meant a lot to me, that the doctor listened to my wants rather than just fob off to me. I would recommend that you speak with your doctor if you have the slightest doubt about vaccines, she says.
the Article has been in collaboration with the Danish school of journalism at roskilde university
