Age: 0.58
Sex: M
Vaccine: UNK
Symptoms: Immune system disorder, Injection related reaction, Laboratory test abnormal, Metal poisoning, Motor developmental delay
Clinical narrative: Dr. retired so I don't have a way, that I know of, of getting ahold of him to find out which specific HIB shot he gave to the patient.  He did write down this lot number 4I917AA-8P.  Here's our story: The patient's Uncle had a shot reaction over 25 years ago with physical and verbal delays within hours after the MMR.  It has greatly impacted his whole life.  So my Mother in law advised that we start immunizations later with our babies and spread them a part.  With previous 4 children I waited until they were at least 1 but most of them I waited till they were 2.  When the patient was 8 months I took him in for a check up with no plans on starting immunizations.  I reminded the Doctor why I didn?t want any immunizations.  I told him of our family history with shot reactions.  He then said that he recommends that we at least get the HIB immunization for meningitis.  He felt it was important and he assured me that it was low risk.    I gave in?.  The patient within 5-15 minutes had rapid breathing and high fever.  It lasted three days.   I noticed it within 10-15 minutes of the shot but it could have started sooner.  We were horrified that we might have just triggered the same developmental delays that the patient's Uncle had after his shot.  The patient stopped mimicking our sounds like he loved to do previously and his immune system was weakened.  Sickness began to hit him harder than it did before.  He is now 3 1/2 and still only has a few words.  He catches sicknesses very easily and when he catches a sickness, it impacts him significantly greater than it does other kids with that same sickness.  Dr. put in his personal notes ?Shot reaction, Aluminum toxicity!?    We discovered this note three years later when we had the patient's records special ordered.  Dr. didn?t mention this concern to us.  He is a kind man and is retired now but he chose not to share his concern of possible aluminum toxicity with us when the patient had his shot reaction.   I wish he had.   This is what we were worried about in the first place.  We could have done chelation and intervened a lot earlier if he had opened up to us about his concerns with the patient's reaction to the shot.  I think he was nervous or scared to share it with us for whatever reason.  We found this note years later when we had the patient's records special ordered from a records holding company.  We needed to special order them because Dr. had retired and they had forgotten to transfer the patient's records to our new pediatrician like I had asked them to.  Even two years down the road when the patient still wasn?t talking, Dr. still didn?t mention his concerns of aluminum toxicity in the patient.   I told him I was concerned his developmental delays were because of the shot.  But he didn?t really respond.  We did the Doctor?s Data metal toxicity test and sure enough he has a high level of aluminum in his body.  We believe this aluminum is what had dampened his immune system and has interfered with his physical, mental and verbal development.  Maybe he has an allergy to aluminum? Or he can?t detox toxins normally like others can?  We did just do a methylation test showing that his methylation cycle isn?t working properly and so he isn?t able to detox like others can.  We?ve been working with an integrative doctor.