Post by VJ

Thoughts On Vaccines

With deadly flu’s breaking out everywhere you can’t help but to get paranoid. If you don’t have health insurance or money, the idea of catching even a chill will probably terrify you. The news, commercials, and people around you talking about it also don’t make it any better. The first thing any one would say is to get vaccinated. Does anyone know what a vaccine really is and why it may or may not be dangerous?

In a nut shell, a vaccine is the virus impaired in one way or another. Either by weakening the virus with a chemical or by making it inactive to where your body still reads it as a virus but won’t get too sick from it to where you won’t get better. It’s the whole idea of what ever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Your body downloads the information about the virus and creates immunity to it. If you’ve been vaccinated and you get the virus, your body will remember and fight it off before the bacteria multiplies. Your body does this naturally without vaccines. The problem is getting sick in order for your body to fight it off. The bad news is that there’s always a new strain of the virus that seems to develop every year. No one likes being sick and building their immune system naturally so they take a short cut. That’s where vaccinations come in. Americans take different vaccines every year.

There are always two sides of a story. You will always hear why you should or shouldn’t take pharmaceutical drugs. As with all pharmaceutical drugs there are side effects. Some vaccine side effects include nausea, headaches, and soreness at the injection location, dizziness, diarrhea, serious allergic reaction, fatigue, and the chills (fever). There are severe problems also but the manufacturers say there’s no hard evidence so I guess it’s not worth listing.

The flu shot is an interesting vaccine. We haven’t found a cure for the common cold yet there’s a vaccine for the flu. Why then are we taking a vaccine for it? Is it only to shorten our sick time? Being sick is not a fun event but it is necessary to build our immune system. If we constantly take short cuts then we miss all of the important stuff we were supposed to learn on the way. The best thing to do is to boost your immune system naturally and know how to heal yourself if and when you get sick.

Some ways to strengthen your immune system are to eat well and sleep just as well. Limit your alcohol consumption because it tends to lower your immune system. 10 servings of fruit and veggies a day will help you get all those necessary vitamins to keep you strong through out a cold spell. Drink lots of water so you can cleanse your body of toxins. Exercise to make sure your blood and heart are working properly. Your body is the only thing that cures you. No medicine or shot will do so. There’s medicine to alleviate symptoms. It’s like hitting the mute button. It doesn’t mean the TV isn’t on. You just can’t hear it, it’s still there. Our bodies are built to heal itself. There are herbs and medicines that help boost it but try to stay natural. You will always build a tolerance to drugs and then nothing in the world will be able to help you. Stay natural and stay healthy.

VJ presents Thoughts On Vaccines posted at My Path.