Aluminum in Vaccines

Is Vaccine Safety Something to Worry About?

By Lisa A. Goldstein

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Aluminum in Vaccines One of the many difficult things about being a new parent is entering new territory. Take vaccines, for instance – a controversial topic rife with myths and misconceptions. Navigating this minefield can be overwhelming. One new parent, Christine Anthony from Evanston, Ill., for example, has people telling her to not give her daughter more than two shots at a time because of aluminum. Is there any basis to this claim?

"This is a new one for me," says Dr. Carol Steltenkamp, associate professor of pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine and Pediatrician at Kentucky Children's Hospital. "I imagine that this comes from the fact that the immunizations no longer have thimerisol (mercury), but rather contain aluminum as an adjuvant."


	According to the CDC, adjuvants are chemicals added to vaccines to make them provide stronger immunity.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Parents' Guide to Childhood Immunizations, adjuvants are chemicals added to vaccines to make them provide stronger immunity. Various forms of aluminum salts are the most commonly used adjuvants in vaccines.

Dr. Janet O'Mahony, internist at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., says that aluminum isn't really felt to be a health risk, except perhaps relating to Alzheimer's disease. Patients with Alzheimer's have high levels of aluminum in the brain, but it's not known if there's a correlation with overall exposure to aluminum. The major source of aluminum exposure, in fact, is actually from antiperspirant use and cookware.

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Anonymous says

February 6, 2010

Aluminum injected into the bloodstream can have a culmulative toxic effect. While it is common in the environent culmulative toxic effects are not widely known. If you are curious please look for medical science research on the subject. Most doctors go along with its safe because it has been used for so long. Alum is not part of any natural process. Injecting it is only a pathological event and harder to excrete if at all. Alum injected does not chelate. Alum causes mitochondria damage. It punches holes in membrane and blood vessels in the blood brain barrier making it porous. It interferes with how nerve cells communicate w each other. Makes alot of free radicals. You wind up with alot of dead cells. When vaccinating multiple times you may be setting up new medical conditions that may not surface right away.

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