Posted February 2, 3016
The practice of giving vaccines as usual to premature infants has been going on for the past few decades, for as long as I have been a pediatrician. It was assumed to be safe. Presented here, is a huge study, “Adverse Events After Routine Immunization of Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants,” June 2015 in JAMA Pediatrics. You can read it here… The study looked at 13,926 extreme-low-birth-weight (ELBW) infants born at 28 weeks gestation or less, who were discharged from January 1, 2007, through December 31, 2012 from 348 NICU’s. They looked at the incidence of sepsis evaluations, need for increased respiratory support, intubation, seizures, and death. The findings should put an immediate halt to this practice, as clearly there is an association with harm and even death. Read more.