Whooping cough vaccines should be given to all adults
 

Whooping cough vaccines should be given to all adults, gov't panel says

All U.S. adults should get the whooping cough vaccine, a federal advisory panel voted Wednesday.

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The panel wants to expand its recommendation to include all those age 65 and older who haven't gotten a whooping cough shot as an adult.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial disease that in rare cases can be fatal. It leads to severe coughing that causes children to make a distinctive whooping sound as they gasp for breath.

Children have been vaccinated against whooping cough since the 1940s, but a vaccine for adolescents and adults was not licensed until 2005. Since then, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has gradually added groups of adults to its recommendation. Wednesday's recommendation means now all adults should get at least one dose.

"They've been moving up to this in baby steps," said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University vaccines expert.

Recommendations from the panel are usually adopted by the government, which sends the guidance out to doctors.

Whooping cough vaccines should be given to all adults, gov't panel says - HealthPop - CBS News

I had whooping cough almost 2 years ago. not fun! one thing I cant get an answer to is! due to the fact I have had it am I now imuned for life from it? i was also pregnant at the time. so she should have some immunity.

Chances are pretty good many of us have had a recent whooping cough vaccination.

If you've had a tetanus vax and it was a DPT injection then that's that the P part of it is, Pertussis or whooping cough. I had a tetanus shot last year and it was a DPT vax.

The particular form they are recommending in the article above may be a different type of whooping cough vax though.

And many of us have not.

I have not had any vaccination since before high school.
(not even flu).

I had whooping cough as a child. Not fun. From what I've read, immunity lasts around 30 years. Hmm... I was 4 when I had it and am close to being 64. I'm a bit out of date.

And with the huge amount of extremely negative talk going on 'now' about the very tainted vaccinations the gubermint is trying to foist on infants / people . . . . .How many of us will follow the gubermints "guide lines" . . . . . .??????

Interesting, they claimed no link between autism and vaccines. Pointed out a retracted study. Im curious why they didnt point out only ONE major study "proved" no link. a member of the group that did this study was literally caught purposely faking studies for cash. which doesnt necessarily make all the groups work false, but it isnt exactly a good sign. Id say its still up in the air to say the least. There is enough corollary evidence without a doubt to suggest a connection though.

They give a little play to the mythology of herd immunity. I call this a myth, because blaming the unvaccinated for being more likely to spread something is silly. the vaccinated DO carry these things as well! So if vaccines have merit the vaccinated are much more likely to spread it to the un vaccinated then vice versa. the un vaccinated who have no natural resistance to a given thing are NOT carriers, (presuming they dont have it at the time) and those who are carriers but havent come down with a given thing would literally be exactly like the vaccinated who presumably have the same or similar anti bodies, while also carrying said ailment. Atleast they admit natural immunity is stronger.

Then they claim the flu vaccine is likely to make the flu less severe should you still get it. Complete myth. You are slightly less likely to get the flu (although it really isnt that much in large part because they have to guess what flu will even circulate) but its much more likely to have major issues for you if you do still get it.

They also claim taking many shots at once doesnt weaken the immune system. This is simply an outright lie.

interesting they end it claiming vaccines arent a money maker. many might not be, but its a multi billion dollar industry that lobbied until it got the gov to make some of them mandatory. So I dont buy that...

Do your own research if this concerns you, but this link was propaganda imo, and ignored many studies.

My 4 kids just got over whooping cough. The 2 that got vax and the 2 that didn't. :rolleyes:

Which two had it worse?

No difference.

thanks for that information. Helps me and others make decisions

Good point! I know that I had a tetanus shot a few years ago because I complained heartily on a couple of internet forums about how bad my arm felt and how long it took for the bruise to go away. I wonder if it was a DPT vaccine.

My kids won't be getting anymore. And they wouldn't have gotten them if i would have knwn this.

A tetanus vaccine only lasts 10 years. That is one vaccine that everyone should absolutely keep updated - particularly if you are a survivalist or own horses. A friend literally came within a hairs breadth of dying from tetanus because of a hang nail. The muscle spasms are incredible. They can be so powerful that they tear the muscles or cause fractures of the spine. He was lucky and just lost all the skin on his body.

Not at my house.

Never had a tetanus shot. And I'm not around horses.
But that is one that I may consider.

I've had Pertussis a few times in the last 5 or so years. This year I was coughing up blood and very weak for about a month. I got the vaccine after that. In a SHTF scenario it would have been VERY bad.

SC

Probably have had the shot recently, go over seas fairly often for my job. Boss is very persnickety about being inoculated.

Dh needed a tetanus shot so he got the combo vac, I need one too, but I'm asking for a pure tetanus shot which my doctor will probably go along with if he can find it. I've had whooping cough but I was 2, that was a long time ago.

Our family of 9 at the time (and I was pregnant with #10) got it had it from Sept./Oct. 2010 to Feb. 2011. I am fully vaxed and got it the WORST. It was nasty I coughed so hard my lungs were bleeding for 2-3 weeks in the middle of the illness, TMI I have never had ANY bladder control issues even after having the 7 I had and being preggy but with that I was peeing my pants from coughing for 3-4 weeks. It was so miserable and would have been embarrassing if I wasn't to sick to care. I threw up from the coughing for at least a solid month. I had to have pills that were a lung steriod, a shot of steroid in the butt and a dang inhaler of albuterol all together just to breathe. I am NOT exagerating one bit.

My dh never gets sick he coughed maybe twice lol.

My Oldest is fully vaxed, he got sick enough he was vomitting at one point but his sickness lasted maybe 2-3 weeks.

My 2nd coughed for the same 2-3 weeks also fully vaxed.

My 3rd fully vaxed coughed a couple weeks.

4th who has always has had lung problems and was OVER vaxed because they screwed up >:( and gave him his brother's vax even after I corrected them had a worse cough for 2-4 weeks.

5th had her 2 and 4 month shots (we delayed and she got them after turning 1 year) did great and barely had a cough.

6th, totally non vaxed, was the 1st one to catch it (because she was directly coughed on by another family's little gal who was sick ) and she had it for 2-3 weeks she was up in the night for about a week of it and threw up once.

7th totally non vaxed never got it at all really. The occasional cough here or there but not even as much as a cold would have been or a throat tickle.

I was SO annoyed that about a month after having it I stepped on a nail and had to get a shot that had the pertussis vax in it lol. The vax is generally 50 some to 80 some percent effective at best. When it DOES work for people it makes the symptoms less but they can still get it and spread the germs to other people/babies.

Another scare tactic by the gobermint. To inject you with more cancer killing agents. I had all my shots as a kid when I was pregnant with the first I got rheumatic fever. I had a booster for it five years before that made me deathly sick. I still had it my son is 23 fine and healthy as can be. smart as can be. My four year old has not had all his shots and has had only one cold no antibiotics at all. All the kids that have their shots had more cold than the one who has not. I separate his shots down to one at a time. To much on their immune system at once.

Most tetanus boosters are DT shots, no pertussis, so make sure before you count on that.

i got my booster right before i was discharged from the hospital after having my youngest (almost 5 years ago).

i almost didn't get it. but then i thought of how i would feel if dd got it from me or her older sister (who was in preschool at the time), and became deathly ill or even died? it wasn't worth the risk, imo.

I will say from the start I am anti vaccine. I read a book by a doctor recently that talked about what a complete failure many of the vaccines have been. Particularly the whopping cough one. I will get the name of the book from my wife but it is good reading. He claimed that the whooping cough could be cured by a large amount of vitamin C being ran through an IV into the body. he also talked about the fact that many people who get the vaccine for it end up getting infected anyway, and that those with the vaccine are unable to pass any of that immunity on to their children.

Two of my kids got the chicken pox vaccine, both of them got the chicken pox. As far as vaccines and autism go my 13yo was a normal kid until he started getting the additional vaccines as a toddler. As a result we started delay vaccinations of our kids, and now we don't do any. The newer vaccines with multiple virus's in them scare the heck out of me. Not to mention the toxins used to make the vaccines more stable.

For sure is tetanus available without additives . . .???

The boosters here all have the pert. in them. Also even if you have the shot you can still pass the disease to babies. When it works it usually just reduces symptoms so that you don't realize you have whooping cough but assume it's a bad cold and run around sharing it :/

We got it from a family that does not vax BUT the origin was a fully vaxed family. False sense of security imo....

We wish we'd have done our homework before loading our girls with vaccines during childhood, but we didn't. Fortunately a couple of our DD's have done their homework and our grandchildren are vaccinated very little, and definitely not until they're ready to enter kindergarten. One DD has chosen to go the vaccine route, i.e. she's loaded a granddaughter with vaccines and that child has been sick every week of her life it seems.

We have done our homework now, and we don't get flu shots as a couple or anything else. We choose to build our immune systems instead, just our opinion. We might choose to get a tetanus shot with a dirty wound, but that's about it. Definitely wouldn't take a whooping cough vaccine.

Most (if not all?!) of the outbreaks of Pertussis in the US has been spread by and through vaccinated populations. My older kids were fully vaxed, but the more I have researched and looked at the statistics of the likelihood of being injured or dying by each vax vs the likelihood of being injured and dying by the disease it is supposed to prevent has convinced me to not vaccinate my younger kids, or at least delay them. (Going by CDC statistics) And if you get Pertussis you are supposed to dose with vitamin C to the point of causing diarrhea then back off the dosage just a bit. FWIW.

I would not choose to get the new ineffective vaccine. If the old one (which still wore off eventually) was available I would get it.

I had whooping cough (even after being fully vaccinated) and while I had a very mild case it was still not fun.