vaccination question
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| We haven't done annual vaccinations in two years now. It was a difficult choice and I was worried we would meet resistance from our vets but they are members of the American Animal Hospital Association and agreed with the 2003 AAHA recommendations. We were concerned that all the over vaccinating might cause immune problems.
You can read the AAHA guidelines here... http://www.aahanet.org/graphics/pdf/Can ... REPORT.pdf Note that it was NOT an effort to save money that we made this decision. We now do annual titers and full blood work each year on our 6 spayed girls. The titers are said to show if they have any protection. Panda's came back as negative for distemper this year so we revaccinated her a couple of weeks ago and will retest in about a month. I think the decision to vaccinate yearly can also depend upon how prevalent these conditions are in the area you live. Ask your vet the number of cases they treated over the last year for the illnesses they want to vaccinate for. Maybe this will give you a clue as to what you should do. Also, it may depend on how much traveling, dog park interaction and hiking your dog does. I hope something here will help you to make the best decision for your dog. |
| Oscar sufferes from a whole host of immune issues, including allergies and heavy duty food sensitivities. I do not want to add anything to his already overloaded system unless it's completely necessary. For the past couple of years, I have asked the vets to separate out the vaccines, so that he's not getting them all at once. We have done them about two weeks apart.
But I have recently begun enlisting the help of a holistic vet. This year, instead of just receiving his routine shots, we are doing what Jaci is doing, and having his titer levels checked (antibody levels in the blood) to see if he needs the shots before giving them. The holistic vet described her approach this way. Let's say that your dog's rabies antibodies in his/her blood are an army. Let's say that the dog still has an army amassed from his last routine shot, and you give him/her another vaccine. All that does is add more troops, get them all riled up, and send them off to war with no enemy to fight. For a dog that already has enough immunity in his blood, it can put his/her immune system into overdrive. Laurie |
| I also seem to understand that a live vacines on top of the same vacines just gets killed... If there is protection against some disease, the you get a live vacine against that disease, then the protection kills the vacnine...So it works out to be useless.
I am doing 3 year rabies, and still sitting on the fence about the rest. Dixie went through the ringer last year with her immune system and there is thought that it could be due to the vacines that were thrown at her when she was very vulnerable. Caused many, many problems....like Oscar.... |
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