The Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis vaccine, or DTaP, is among the recommended vaccines given to young infants in the United States beginning at 2 months old. This vaccine is one of the more controversial because, despite a 95% vaccine rate, pertussis (whooping cough) is still very prevalent. The effectiveness of the pertussis vaccine is estimated at anywhere from ...
1) What is Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura? Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) is a rare bleeding disorder. It affects both men and women, both children and adults; it can be mild or severe; acute and short-term or subtle and chronic (long-lasting). Other names for ITP are: Immune (or: Immunological) Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Idiopathic Thrombopenic Purpura, Essential Thrombocytopenia, Primary ...
Intimidated by large medical words that your physician or other health care worker may use? Don’t be, after this article you too will be able to speak “medical” with the best of them. First of all in medical terminology you will find history in the words. Medical terminology is based largely on Greek and Latin ...
HiB vaccine ingredients include Haemophilus influenzaType B, polyribosylribitol phosphate, Ammonium Sulphate, Formalin, (another name for Formaldehyde), and sucrose. The first two of these ingredients are the active ingredients in the vaccine, the next two I will focus on independently, and sucrose is a form of sugar. One of my greatest fears of vaccines is not ...
E.coli has been in the news frequently the last several months. You have seen it connected to the lettuce scare and most recently in an outbreak possibly connected to Taco Bell. E.coli is short for Escherichia coli (esh-er-ick-ee-eh cole-eye) it is a common type of bacteria that normally lives inside your intestines. It helps your ...
“There is a great deal of evidence to prove that immunization of children does more harm than good.” – Dr. J. Anthony Morris, former Chief Vaccine Control Officer and Research Virologist, US FDA About Hepatitis B Within a few hours of a hospital birth, newborn infants are injected with the Hepatitis B vaccine. The theory ...
In the human, blood normally coagulates within seconds of an injury or forms blood clots (platelets (tiny cells in the blood) congregate around ruptures in blood vessels to form a clot, through a complex process involving as many as twenty different plasma proteins (manufactured in the liver), known as coagulation factors. Plasma proteins C and ...
Lovenox is a low-molecular-weight heparin shot. What does this mean? It can prevent blood clots from forming as well as treating existing blood clots. Last year I became very ill and spent three weeks in the hospital. Because of complications, I developed blood clots in my lungs. This resulted in me having to take the ...
About The Disease HiB HiB, or Haemophilus influenza type b, used to be the most common cause of meningitis in children between 6 months and 4 years of age. Some cases of bronchitis, sinusitis and middle-ear infection are also caused by HiB. Presence of the disease is determined by a spinal tap, in addition to ...
