CMT Medical Experts on Vaccinations

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Dear ers,

I asked 2 CMT doctors about CMT and Vaccinations. Both doctors are well

published and highly esteemed in the CMT medical community. Their replies are

below - Gretchen

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From Greg at U of Washington in the USA: " GET VACCINATED. THAT

OTHER STUFF IS AN OLD WIVE'S TALE.

THE FIRST FLU VACCINES BACK IN THE 70'S VERY RARELY CAUSED A GUILLIAN

BARRE LIKE SYNDROME...BUT THAT WAS DUE TO THE TECHNIQUE, WHICH HAS LONG SINCE

CHANGED

THE FLU CAN KILL...ESPECIALLY IF THE CMT HAS AFFECTED YOUR BREATHING.

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From Paolo Vinci, in Rome, Italy: " I cannot understand why some CMT

Americans do not want to vaccinate their children: vaccines do not

worsen CMT, on the contrary they allow the avoidance of antibiotics

that can worsen CMT (in case a person, who does not vaccinate,

contracts a disease). It is true that children may have side effects,

even severe, just after vaccine, but they occur in a minimal part of

them and in any case they are not more frequent in case of CMT.

I think that avoidance of drugs (partially justified, but often

exagerated) and now of vaccines represents a psychological mechanism to control

the progression of CMT, whereas progression is mostly dependent on genetics.

This need to control the disease is more evident in parents who feel guilty for

having transmitted the disease to their children, that is parents who decided to

satisfy their instinct of procreation at all costs. "