Take medical advice only from doctors

My professional medical advice is don’t take medical advice from people who are not doctors.

I am an old pediatrician, and I can remember doing two or three spinal taps a week due to concerns over meningitis. I have seen the devastation from illnesses we now call “preventable” due to vaccines.

Before our vaccines, most parents lost one or more of their children to what are now preventable illnesses. Feel free to look up what polio, hemophilus and pneumococcal diseases can do. Of all the preventable diseases, the only one I have never seen is tetanus and all of them can be deadly or cause permanent harm to your children.

Do you remember strep eating skin disease due to chickenpox? Hypoxia due to pertussis? If you put off giving your children vaccines until they are “older” or spread them out to the point the vaccines are not effective until they are older, you are putting your children at risk for devastating diseases.

Do not take medical advice from people who are not doctors.

Joy Silver

Palatine