The princess never met her prince; the ivory tower was never penetrated Her locks never golden nor flung from the tallest window.
She had alopecia
Are we overloading our children’s immune system? I apologise right from the start: this month’s diary is going to be a bit techy! It is a concern for many of us parents. 100 years ago children had just one vaccination (smallpox), in the 1960s there were 13 and now over 20. To seemingly make matters worse all the jabs seem to be crammed into an ever-shorter period. Surely this must overload or damage the immune system? The answer is simply no. Immunologists from the USA have calculated it would take over 10,000 vaccinations all on the same day to get close to overloading a baby’s immune system. Some of us are concerned that it is the nature of giving all the vaccines together that seems unnatural: spreading them out would somehow feel better. Yet it is very natural for the body to be bombarded continuously. Within a few hours of being born a baby’s bowel is filling up with about five different types of bacteria, in there millions. We are all in daily contact with any number of bacteri...
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