Tdap Vaccination for Pregnant Women Does Not Increase Risk of Autism

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Tdap Vaccination for Pregnant Women Does Not Increase Risk of Autism, Kaiser Permanente Study Finds
Press Release August 12, 2018

"A Kaiser Permanente study of more than 80,000 children born over a 4-year period showed that the prenatal Tdap vaccination (tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis) was not associated with increased risk of autism spectrum disorder in children.

“Infants are at the highest risk of hospitalization and death among any population subgroup after contracting a pertussis infection, a highly contagious respiratory disease also known as the whooping cough,” said Tracy A. Becerra-Culqui, PhD, a post-doctoral research fellow with Kaiser Permanente Southern California’s Department of Research & Evaluation and lead author of the study. “With waning immunity against pertussis in the United States, it has become very important for pregnant women to be immunized against pertussis. It is an immunity they pass on to their unborn baby.”

“Pregnant women can be reassured by this study that there is no indication of an increased risk of autism spectrum disorder in children after being exposed prenatally to the Tdap vaccine,” Becerra-Culqui added."
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Study Abstract: [link to pediatrics.aappublications.org]
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- This should ease the minds of young parents who have been frightened by the anti-vaccinationists.
- The current ACIP recommendation is for the mother to get Tdap in her 3rd trimester so she can transfer her pertussis antibodies placentally while baby is still in the womb.
- This is quite protective against baby succumbing to pertussis in its first 6 months, before it has built up its own immunity from the 2, 4, 6 month Tdap vaccinations.
Mommy's transferred protection does wear off in about 6 months and breast milk does not transfer pertussis antibodies so baby still needs its Tdap vaccinations.
- The ACIP also recommends the mother get the flu shot for the same reason/purpose.
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Here is what you are preventing. (Warning - Heartbreaking vid of a struggling baby):
www.youtubecom/watch?v=S3oZrMGDMMw

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Parents should get their medical advice from their physician and recognized experts and ignore internet loons who dropped out of high school and failed every math/science class they took. It is your baby's life you are dealing with. Why would you take medical advice from HippieCrystalChic97?

Have fun and vaccinate your children.


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