I have a dear friend in the military. She has been informed that she will be receiving
both vaccines. Her problem; she is still nursing her 1 yr old. She has been
told by the military that she cannot use nursing as an excuse to not vaccinate
after the baby is 6 weeks old. She does not want to wean this early, she
nursed her last child until 2.5 and wants to nurse this one just as long,
if not longer.

She wants to know if it is possible to nurse during the vaccination or
not. I don't believe the "pump and dump" method will work since the anthrax
vaccine is a series of shots over many weeks and the small pox vaccine is still
active 3-4 weeks after it is given.

Do you have any information that could help?

 

Dr. Neustaedter's Response:

Do not nurse a baby if you receive the smallpox vaccine. Live viruses
from vaccines (such as the one in the smallpox vaccination) are secreted in
breastmilk. Vaccinia virus can definitely be passed to others from a
vaccinated individual by several routes, including skin to skin contact with
the lesion and probably droplet spread through respiratory passages.
Vaccinia infection spread from vaccinated to unvaccinated individuals can
result in serious illness and fatalities (in as many as 11 percent of those
infected). If any family member has ever had eczema, that is also a definite
medical contraindication to smallpox vaccination. There is a military
exemption to vaccines based on religious belief (paragraph 13 of AJFI
48-110), which is quoted in my book, The Vaccine Guide. For information
about the anthrax vaccine legal issues in the military see Dr. Meryl Nass's
website at www.anthraxvaccine.org.

Randall Neustaedter OMD, LAc
Classical Medicine Center
1779 Woodside Rd #201C
Redwood City, CA 94061
650 299-9170

www.cure-guide.com
email: randalln@concentric.net