Health is a treasure. It is the most vital
aspect in every human being. Each people in this world should take care of
their health seriously to ensure a longer lifetime. Healthcare should always be
started from home, which will be an essential part connected with parenting
methods. Parents should be concerned about their children's health by making
sure they take a suitable and accurate care for their body. Recently, there was
an issue that occurred and created a huge impact to the community, which is vaccination.
According to Cambridge Dictionary (n.d), vaccine is a substance used to
stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or
several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products,
or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the
disease. Vaccine is a must for everyone as a prevention from harmful diseases
such as rubella, tetanus, measles, mumps and many more. But now, there exist a
group of people that against vaccination and this group is known as anti-vaccine.
They against vaccine because there are a few side effects happened after
receiving vaccines and trusting unknown sources condemning that vaccine is
harmful. So what are the points that might be their arguments?
The anti-vaccines often have their points
that is often used by them. One of the points that will be given by them is that
vaccine actually weakens their children’s immune system but parents do not know
that it is not the number of shots that matters but actually the substance in
them. Antigens are the bacterial components of a vaccine that bolster the
immune system to build up antibodies and fight future infections. The total
antigens in vaccines today are a fraction of what kids used to receive even
when including combination vaccines meaning even they did not vaccinate their children;
they will still receive the same substance in other medications. In addition, sometimes parents read about
false article written by physicists that believed thimerosal (ProCon.org, 2019),
an organic mercury compound could be found in trace amounts in one flu vaccine
for children and other vaccines for adults, is often linked to autism. This
will make the parents anxious to have their children vaccinated as they might
be scared that they will be autism but this type of event is extremely rare to happen.
Last but not least is that they believe the rights of their children is
exclusively for them. They have the control over what to do with their children
and when they are influenced by videos or articles saying that vaccines are
dangerous, they decided to not vaccinate their children. This type of parents is
good because they are protective over their children, but they do not seek the
truth of it first before deciding something.
Last but not least, vaccine is something
beneficial which is the total opposite from what anti-vaccines keep on arguing.
Children’s immune system is totally need to be boosted from the early stage,
approximately since they are a baby. When vaccines are taken, the babies have a
stronger immune system and the parents also do not have to worry about them
getting diseases which is easily can be prevented by taking vaccines.
REFERENCES
1. Pros
& Cons - ProCon.org. Retrieved from https://vaccines.procon.org/
2. VACCINE:
meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Retrieved from
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/vaccine
