The Dangers of Vaccinations and the Advantages of Nosodes for Disease Prevention
by Donna Starita Mehan, DVM
A Country Way Veterinary Care
27728 SE Haley Road, Boring, Oregon 97009

The purpose of vaccination is to protect your pet from potentially fatal viruses such as distemper, parvo, rabies, and others. Done by injecting either killed or modified live virus, which sensitizes the immune system to that particular virus. Thereafter, if your pet is exposed to that virus, s/he will be able to respond quickly/vigorously producing antibodies to overcome the infection.

This sounds like a pretty good plan, on the surface. However, we must ask, "Is it safe? Is it effective? Do the benefits outweigh the risks?"

The Problems With Vaccinations "Routine" vaccination, is not always effective and frequently has adverse side effects, either short or long term. With the use of multivalent (combination: 4 in 1, 6 in 1, etc.) vaccines repeated year after year, the frequency and severity of side effects in our pets has increased dramatically.

Most of the problems involve the immune system, which the vaccines are designed to stimulate. But they do so in a very unnatural way that can overwhelm and confuse the immune system. The body may overreact to normally harmless substances (allergies, especially flea allergies and other skin problems), or even produce antibodies to itself (autoimmune disease). At the same time, the body may be sluggish in responding to common viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, resulting in increased susceptibility to acute infections (such as ear and bladder), chronic tapeworm problems or in more degenerative cases, cancer.

Lack of Alternatives Until recently, there have been no practical alternatives, so the short term benefits of vaccination have seemed to outweigh the long term risks. Now, however, there are homeopathic nosodes.

Homeopathic Nosodes - A Better Alternative A nosode is simply a homeopathic remedy that is made from a disease product . Nosodes are not in any way infections. Nosodes sensitize the body to a particular virus, so the immune system can react quickly and effectively to natural exposure. Nosodes are at least as effective as vaccines, and in some cases have been shown to be significantly more effective than vaccine in preventing infection.

The biggest advantage in using nosodes; they are completely safe with no risk of side effects whatsoever. They can be safely given to puppies much earlier than vaccines and in fact the mother can be treated before giving birth thus giving her puppies protection from the moment they are born.