Sex: M
Vaccine: HEP
Symptoms: Erythema, Exaggerated startle response, Eye swelling, Feeding disorder neonatal, Gastrooesophageal reflux disease
Clinical narrative: Upon delivery of my son, there were no signs of allergy. Skin was clear. He looked like a healthy 7 lb. 13 oz. baby boy and he was that is for a little while. Sometime shortly after being born and still in the hospital, he developed red skin and bumps all over his little body, swelling of the eyes, and was biting on his bottle nipple. The Hospital nurse suspected seizures. The doctor didn't seem very concerned. The Doc. asked me what I thought about it and by what I had observed I thought that he was biting on his bottle nipple because he needed to burp or was full because the biting down was preceded by a slight startle response. So, I would give him a break from feeding and he would eat again. Patient was sleeping a lot before we left the hospital. I was concerned about that. They told me to just wake him up every so many hours and feed him. Patient was taken home from the hospital the day after delivery where he began to have yet more allergy symptoms, runny nose, some coughing, while he took his bottle. One to Two months after birth I took him to the pediatrician and his formula was changed. Things didn't get better. Patient was admitted to hospital after having quit breathing while taking a bottle and having only one seizure, diagnosed with seizures (infantile spasms) by Dr. Seizures intensified during his hospital stay. He was also seen by an eye specialist during this hospital stay and diagnosed with Central Vision Deficit which is not a vision problem but damage to the visual part of the brain that affects how he sees. After this came the diagnosis of acid reflux. Then Encephalopathy due to the severity of the seizures was given by Dr. Were were even put through genetic testing which was a waste of time. The couldn't tell us anything. Some time after this he was diagnosed with developmental delay. He was diagnosed with asthma, allergies, sinusitis, by a pulmonologist. We were sent to a Cardiologist at one point and later diagnosed with high blood pressure and migraines by Dr. Diagnosed with Sleep apnea by Dr. At this point in time patient was on his 3rd set of ear tubes due to infections. Finally, the last piece of the puzzle was put into place this year, Feb. 2012, and it is this...after repeating some old allergy tests we were able to conclude that patient is Monosodium Glutamate intolerant. On the day of Feb. the 3rd 2012 patient had a severe reaction to a can of chicken and dumplings. There were 7 different things in it that could cause an MSG reaction. There was no other ingredient that could have caused what we witnessed, elevated blood pressure, turning red, bumps, a seizure, coughing, and another seizure the next day, in the bed for 4 days. If this had not been history repeating itself my husband and I would have had our son in the E.R. We took care of him ourselves, called the allergist, who then confirmed MSG intolerance and we were told to avoid it. Shortly after we learned that the Hepatitis B vaccine goes through a fermentation process which involves the growth of saccharomyces cerevisiae on a complex fermentation medium which consists of an extract of yeast, soy peptone, and mineral salts and may contain not more than 1% yeast protein. We have been told to avoid giving patient anything labeled, "...protein" or anything having been fermented due to his monosodium glutamate intolerance. The source of patient's pain, biting on his bottle nipple with migraines (EEG showed biting/startle responses not seizure activity per child neurologist), came into his little body first through his first childhood immunization (a poisonous toxin to him) before he was even 2 hours of age. NOBODY EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE SHOT causing all of patient's symptoms which took years to piece all together! NOW, After having eliminated any and all glutamate triggers from our child's diet his migraines are disappearing. He was having them daily 2-4 times a day...again for 17 years. And over half of that time he was unable to communicate his pain to us. It wasn't until he learned to use a program on his computer that he was able to express it and we were then able to help him. Today is March 2nd 2012 and patient has gone 7 days without a headache. Now we are looking forward to patient being seizure free, high blood pressure free, and apnea/asthma free. And all of this is good but our son is being left in a wheel chair unable to speak because I made a decision to give him a vaccine that I only thought would benefit him when in reality it nearly took his life. Nothing can bring back the time that has been stolen from him or from us or the normal life that we should have had---all of us. Nobody knows how a baby is going to react to any drug, vaccine, or medication. We don't know what type of allergies they may have when they're first born. The only allergies I had when patient was born was one to oats and grass. My daughter was only three when patient was born and the only allergy she had at the time was to milk that she had already outgrown. I regret the day that I signed that paper giving my consent to give my son the hepatitis B vaccine. If I had to do things over again, even if it were state mandated that I had to give the hepatitis B vaccine to my child, I would not give it!!, Never, Never, Never!! Someone would just have to cart me off to jail.