Sears highlights common parental concerns about vaccines. Lambert is a vaccine immunologist at the university of geneva. Check out a recent issue of vaccine update for healthcare providers. Robert sears, the son of wellknown pediatrician william sears who published more than 30 books on parenting. Bob sears, has left a significant impression on many parents. Robert sears vaccine book vaccination summary noob. Sears book is enormously popular, having sold 40000 copies. Sears often downplays the potential danger of vaccine preventable diseases, or the risk of infection for the unimmunized child. Making the right decision for your child and introducing what he. Measles is still a common and often fatal disease in developing countries. The problem with dr bobs alternative vaccine schedule. He follows these not with factbased discussions, but with subtle and often not so subtle words of reinforcement. The healthy brings you exclusive interviews with dr.
Dr sears talks about the vaccine book and going green. Paul and the team at integrative pediatrics llc have been using the plan outlined below. The vaccine book first covers the impact of disease, including chapters on vaccine economics and finance policy, and the potential for widespread vaccination to change the epidemiology of the target disease. The schedule was published along with other information about vaccines in his book the vaccine book. Making the right decision for your child sears parenting library by sears, robert w.
Sears does a thorough job presenting the contents of the various vaccines and the issues involved with clustering shots and using cocktails. Before a vaccine was available, infection with measles virus was nearly universal during childhood, and more than 90%. This book does a really nice job presenting each disease that the vaccines are meant to cover. With the vaccine book, parents finally have one, fair, impartial, factbased resource they can turn to for answers. The popularity of alternative vaccine schedules is largely attributed to dr. Making the right decision for your child, little, brown and company, 2007, revised 2011.
Bob sears about his book the vaccine book and his upcoming book happy baby. Sears book includes what he calls an alternative vaccine schedule, which. Alternate vaccine doctor robert sears accused of gross. Bob sears equips you with all the information you need to understand childhood vaccination and make an educated decision. Immunology and vaccinepreventable diseases pink book. The only way a baby can catch it is through blood or bodyfluid.
Dr sears is best known as the author of the vaccine book. Bob is best known for his bestselling the vaccine book. Bob, is an american pediatrician from capistrano beach, california, noted for his unorthodox and dangerous views on childhood vaccination. Sears considers this a fairly important vaccine even though the fatalities are low in the us. The vaccine book quotes showing of 3 most antivaccine books claim that all shots are bad, the diseases arent really anything to fear, and as long as you live. At the back of the book, sears includes dr bobs alternative vaccine schedule, a formula by which parents can delay, withhold, separate, or space out. Sears, this might fool some people does present each vaccine and the disease it prevents in a. Sears is a practicing pediatrician and the coauthor of several parenting books, including the vaccine book. One example is the herd effect of childhood rubella vaccination, which. A popular alternative vaccination schedule used is by dr.
He does present a lot of facts about each shot and the risks vs. Relate your first encounter with an antivaccine book with the dtp diphtheria. Technically speaking columns cover practical topics in immunization delivery such as needle length, vaccine administration, cold chain, and immunization schedules. Sears the author is actually the son of the famous dr. Hepatitis a vaccination provides the best form of protection against the virus. Each chapter is devoted to a diseasevaccine pair and offer a comprehensive discussion of what the disease is, how common or rare it is, how serious or harmless it is, the ingredients of the vaccine, and any possible side effects. Sears, for his part, told me, many bloggers, tweeters and minor reporters have incorrectly characterized my openminded position as antivaccine when, in fact, my book states very clearly that. Bob sears, the capistrano beach pediatrician who is an outspoken critic of mandatory vaccination laws, faces possible state medical board discipline after he recommended that a 2yearold patie. Bob, author of the vaccine book and the autism book, and coauthor of the baby book in the sears parenting. Some are concerned about vaccine safety in general, and some believe that too many vaccines are given when a child is too young. Technically speaking immunization action coalition. Are there alternative vaccine schedules for babies. Making the right decision for your child 2007, proposes two alternative vaccination schedules that depart from accepted medical recommendations. Studies indicate the vaccine protects for 40 years or more.
Sears has covered a very complex topic and has done the ground work for concerned parents and practitioners. Making the right decision for your child, which seeks to address the biggest concerns of parents who are looking for a middle ground between the official cdc vaccine schedule and not getting any vaccines at all. Combining this vaccine plan with exclusive breastfeeding, eating a diet of real food, getting enough vitamin d, exercising, and avoiding toxins like. In october 2007, dr robert sears, in response to growing parental concerns about the safety of vaccines, published the vaccine book. Offit, a pediatrician, is the coinventor of the rotateq rotavirus vaccine, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the childrens hospital of philadelphia and author of the new book.
Bob sears talks about an alternative vaccine schedule. Vaccine maverick dr bob sears accused of negligence. Robert sears, the son of wellknown pediatrician william sears, popularized the idea of alternative vaccine. At the back of the book, sears includes dr bobs alternative vaccine schedule, a formula by which. Bob sears, is not a vaccine researcher, or a scientist. Robert sears of orange county, california, first drew attention after publishing a book in 2007 called the vaccine book. It lays out alternatives to the vaccination schedule issued. Sears alternative and cdcs childhood vaccine schedules. All four authors live in southern california and they have written over thirty books. Ultimately, parents will have to make their own informed decisions as dr. Sears books are published in numerous countries throughout the world. She got the rotavirus liquid, and vaccination that included hepb, dtap.
Sears has been a longtime advocate of attachment parenting and in 2007 published the popular manual, the vaccine book. The hepatitis b vaccine was created for intravenous drug users, sexually promiscuous men and women, and mothers infected with hepatitis b. Despite the books fearmongering over vaccine ingredients and antivaccine claims that have been debunked, however, it has now sold more than a quarter million copies, frightening countless. Robert sears presents a clear, concise plan for the treatment of autism.
Making the right decision for your child, offers parents an alternative to the american academy of pediatrics schedule but he does so with dr. Bob sears, author of the vaccine book and the autism book and coauthor of the baby book, at sears family pediatrics in capistrano beach on aug. Bill sears, the prolific parent book writer and creator of. In 2007, dr robert sears drafted a schedule to accommodate these parents. Dr bob sears, known for promoting a nonevidencebased vaccination schedule contrary to the cdc schedule, has been sanctioned by californias medical board. Dr sears work should be added to the list of the list of treatments for this page. He thoroughly discusses a myriad of topics including the basics on vaccines, information on the diagnosis of autism, and therapies from. All of our books are available for purchase at the sears parenting library.
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