Due Date Calc. Matthews One of the hardest things any parent can do is stand and watch while a doctor, under controlled conditions, does something that hurts your child. It only hurts for a minute, and generally heals for a lifetime.
Vaccines work in a variety of ways.
The most common method, inoculation, is to inject your child with a weakened form of a disease. Your child's immune system reacts to the disease and starts making antibodies that exist to destroy it. Despite the widespread success of this method, many people squirm at the idea of deliberately putting a disease in a child. And some irresponsible studies have played on this fear. The villains of these stories are greedy vaccine manufacturers, disinterested doctors, and burdensome regulatory agencies.