5'5 and 130 is heavy

Was there any proof linking any of the vaccines to your child's diabetes?

I don't know if it's been investigated. It wasn't with my son personally. What I was saying is in the last 15 years or so more children are being diagnosed with hyperactive immune systems leading to things such as diabetes and lupus

Well I'm no doctor but I would say the reason for the diabetics is because Americans are fat and lazy. I should know, I'm one of them.

That's an old stereotype. Not really true

Well that's just rude... did you read any of the other comments. My son is 5,7 and 130 pounds. He's skinny as a rail. He's always been skinny. He isn't lazy, it wasn't genetic. Thank you very much for assuming that juvenile diabetes is always caused by diet and exercise. IT ISNT. Juvenile diabetes isn't the same as late on set adult diabetes. I get it you said you're one of them meaning that you put yourself down as well. But it also tells me you're uneducated when it comes to kids having diabetes. And yeah it bugged me a little that you assumed my kid was fat and lazy. He isn't. It wasn't a weight issue. The Doctors said it was caused by hyperactive immune system

Yeah, it's the best thing to let them be exposed to pathogens, because they build anti-bodies by doing that. What vaccines do, is exposing them to mortal diseases at a safe level. So that way, they build defenses. I have all of my vaccines in time, and I played a lot of time in dirt and stuff like that when I was younger, the most I have got in my 14 years of life is a common cold every now and then. So yeah, I think kids should be vaccinated (is it said like that?), but they should be exposed to pathogens too.

Be careful posting your age on internet forums someone might try to take advantage of that fact. Yes kids should be exposed to all sorts of things. And yes kids should be vaccinated. They have a new vaccine for Chickenpox a lot of parents instead of getting their kids the vaccine are having parties called chicken pox parties one kid in the group and ends up with chicken pox and all of the parents get together and put their kids together in a room and give them all chicken pox to keep from giving them the vaccine because there's been some negative outcomes with that particular vaccine. Most vaccines are there so that kids can play in the dirt and go to public school and the parents don't have to worry that their kids are going to end up with some horrible illness. In my son's case with his overactive immune system causing him to end up with diabetes I wonder what are vaccinations are doing to our children at a base level. However I do feel that the illnesses that they are being vaccinated for are much worse and could possibly kill. However diabetes can also kill. All I want to know is whether or not there is a link to a certain vaccination and children ending up with hyperactive immune systems. I think it's very serious and should be looked into. I appreciate the fact that at such a young age you take a topic like this so seriously. It goes to show that are you are not quite as entitled as most people think

For someone who supports vaccination you sure parrot a lot of anti-vax talking points. You do get that there is literally no connection or even really a plausible correlation between vaccinations and things like autism right?

I wasn't saying we should end vaccinations I wouldn't want my kid to end up with measles mumps or rubella. I know that there has been no direct correlation for autism. But I also feel that it needs to be looked at more closely. I'm not saying don't protect your kids. I'm saying that maybe we should look at little closer at what the negative impacts could be and see if we could do better. Make a better vaccine. I hate the fact that my kid has diabetes. I wish with every fiber of my being that I could take it from him and be the one who has to poke myself and stick a darn needle in my stomach 4 times a day. It's frustrating as a parent knowing that there wasn't anything I could have done to prevent him from getting diabetes. It isn't hereditary no one in his bloodline has ever had diabetes, it isn't a weight problem. So we had no warning. I'm a CNA and my mom's a nurse we know how people get diabetes. No one ever warned me that my kid could just get it for no real reason at all. And more and more kids are showing up diabetic in the last 15 years. I'm not telling anyone to avoid vaccines. I'm saying that we need to look closer and see what is causing this to happen. What is it that is making their immune systems go nuts and attack either their pancreas or their lymphatic systems or their brains. Why are their bodies hurting them so much. That's all. If I've offended anyone with my comments I'm sorry. I'm not on a witch hunt. I just wish we knew more. Had more information.

>implying that we don't constantly look at the side effects >implying vaccines aren't constantly looked at for ways to improve them People have and are looking at them every which way in order to improve them. And I'm sorry to hear about your son but I honestly don't see how's that even relevant. You said it yourself that it was a weird infection that caused it. Plus the overall rise in diabetes rates is due to the obesity rates today. And what I was saying before was that after that bs study came out linking vaccines and autism it was externally throughly studied to make sure that even though that guys results were faked that there wasn't a hint of truth to them. They found nothing. Not even a raise in the rates between the groups to suggest that something was happening. They aren't going to keep spending time and resources on something that for all intensive purposes is a done deal