As I’m sure you already know, pregnancy puts extra stress on your heart and lungs. Pregnancy can also affect your immune system. These factors increase the risk not only of getting the flu but of developing serious complications of the flu, such as pneumonia and respiratory distress. In turn, flu complications increase the risk of premature labor, preterm birth and other pregnancy complications.

Pregnant women, even those in perfect health, can become very ill if they get the flu.

For example, one large study examined the effect of the flu on pregnant women over the course of 17 flu seasons. The study found that pregnant women in the third trimester were just as likely to be hospitalized for heart or lung problems as were women with serious, chronic medical conditions who were not pregnant.

The risk increased the farther along the women were in their pregnancies. Healthy women at 37 to 42 weeks were almost five times as likely to be admitted to the hospital during the flu season for heart or lung problems as women who were one to six months postpartum. Another study showed that pregnant women with asthma were at extra high risk for hospitalization during the flu season. The pandemic H1N1 flu virus of 2009 proved to be particularly harmful to pregnant women, and it is still circulating.

The flu shot and pregnancy; to take the flu shot or not?

Over the past few flu seasons there has been increased concern over pregnancy and the flu shot.  This concern is based primarily on the question of the safety of the mercury contain preservatives used in the vaccines and it’s connection with a drastic increase of the autism rate over the past few decades. There is even some question as to the safety and effectiveness of vaccines in general.

There are many who believe that the shot is both safe and effective and others who believe it is at the very least ineffective if not outright dangerous. Each side can produce evidence to support their claim. Where does that leave the pregnant woman and the life growing within her?

It leaves them seeking alternatives in dealing with the shot flu and pregnancy  issue!

One such alternative is a substance called fucoidan. Fucoidan is found in brown seaweed and is one of the most researched natural substances on the planet. With over 30 years of research and over 900 clinical studies (listed at pubmed.com) behind it, fucoidan has been proven to be effective against the flu (especially against H1N1) as well as cancer and a plethora of other maladies.

We at Health Products Guru strongly recommend that concerned mothers to be, weather they decide to take the shot or not, take the proper steps to build up their immune systems now, before the flu season comes into full swing.  Our fucoidan products; ZRadical & FucoidZ contain the award winning natural, organic Maritech® fucoidan extract 926 which has proven to be effective against H1N1 and will boost your immune system.

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Most vaccination serums are created by using fragments of dead micro-organisms to trigger an immune system response to the invading organism.

The H1N1 nasal mist however is a “live vaccine” (contains the live H1N1 micro-organism).

**If you plan on taking the H1N1 vaccine  please note that women who are pregnant or patients with specific conditions — like asthma or immuno suppression  should not use the nasal form of vaccine due to  added risks posed by the live-virus vaccine.**

As those of you who have been reading my articles may have noted I have been quite suspect about this entire H1N1 (swine flu virus) scare for quite some time.  The release of this “live vaccine”  simply adds more fuel to that fire.  We know that the H1N1 virus has, as predicted, began to spread again.  We also know that pregnant women and the elderly were supposed to be the first to receive the “inject able” vaccine because they are among the “high risk“ groups.   Don’t you find it suspicious that the first shipments of the vaccine are not to be used by the “high risk” groups?

For whom are the intranasal vaccines deemed “safe” for use?  Children!  Now I’d like you to think about this for a moment.  Stated on the insert that comes with the vaccine the product has the potential for transmission to others.  So if a child gets the Flumist in school they are contagious to the other children for at least two weeks.  Is this going to help to contain the virus or help to spread it?  Are you going to let some doctor give your child the live virus?  More importantly are you going to permit your child come in contact with another child who received the intranasal vaccine?

Ladies and Gentlemen the bottom line is that this vaccine, in either form, has been fast tracked with very few studies.  The studies done, however, have been completed without the added thimerosal (mercury) and squalene. The vaccines for the general public, when they are ready, will be formulated with squalene (a possible cause of Gulf War Syndrome) and thimerosal, a known neurotoxin. Very few vaccines without these additives will be available.

Also, 90 percent of the seasonal flu vaccines contain thimerosal.

I’m not trying to frighten anyone here I am simply offering information that might be of interest and or of benefit to my readers.  Much of the information I have seen indicates that the virus has not began to mutate and that the mortality rate is relatively low (especially if you are not in a high risk group).  The question you must ask yourselves is: do the benefits outweigh the risks involved with inoculation?  Don’t take my word for anything here however I strongly advise that you do your due diligence before you make your decision.

Again, in closing, I will state my position that the best offense is a strong defense.  Do all that you can to boost your immune system now and allow your body do what it has been designed to do.

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It is believed that there will be 50million doses of the H1N1 vaccines available by the end of August and another 150million available sometime around the end of September. This leaves some 150million Americans “unprotected” against the virus.

The question here? Is this a blessing or a curse?

The bottom line is that this vaccine, which is being produced by 5 American companies, is being prepared for mass injection into infants, children, teens and adults has not been tested. The fact is that it will not be tested before the injections begin. This makes those receiving the injections the test subjects or ginnie pigs. Although this practice is uncommon to the American heal care system it is a normal practice in Europe where The European Medicines Agency is allowing companies to skip the testing process entirely. Even more interesting is that when the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. announced a swine flu vaccine trial beginning in early August, it was inundated with phone calls and emails from people desperate to play the role of human guinea pigs. Truly Amazing!

Especially alarming is that there is no safety data available on the use of adjuvants on infants and pregnant women who are particularly susceptible to the N1H1 virus. An immunological adjuvant is an agent in the serum intended to stimulate the immune system and increase the response to a vaccine. In addition, as it was recently unveiled by the Washington Post, many doses of the new H1N1 vaccine will be stored in multi dose vials which will contain thimerosal (mercury in its most common form used as a preservative). Due to the use of thimerosal in vaccines given to kids during the 1976 swine flu scare, the number of cases of autism has increased by 1500 percent since 1991. This number corresponds to the period of time during which the number of vaccines for kids also increased. While in 1991 there was one kid diagnosed with autism for every 2500, today there are 166 kids diagnosed for the same 2500. These numbers as well as public pressure to stop using mercury in vaccines, has made forced some companies to allegedly reduce the amounts of thimerosal used in their products. This is not the case however in the new batches of the H1N1 vaccine.

I probably don’t need to remind you that in 1976, a failed swine flu vaccine caused irreparable damage to the nervous systems of hundreds of people, paralyzing many. Medical doctors gave the problem a name, of course, to make it sound like they knew what they were talking about: Guillain-Barre syndrome. (Notably, they never called it “Toxic Vaccine Syndrome” because that would be too informative.)

But the fact remains that doctors never knew how the vaccines caused these severe problems, and if the same event played out today, all the doctors and vaccine pushers would undoubtedly deny any link between the vaccines and paralysis altogether.

Conclusion:

There is a great deal that we don’t know about this vaccine in terms of the potential health hazards it may pose to those subjected to it. What we do know however, that the adjuvants have not been tested on infants and pregnant women, that mercury is being used in the serum as a preservative and that it has bee proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that mercury is directly linked to autism.

It is also note worthy that influenza spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands annually — millions in pandemic years. Three influenza pandemics occurred in the 20th century and killed tens of millions of people, with each of these pandemics being caused by the appearance of a new strain of the virus in humans. Often, these new strains appear when an existing flu virus spreads to humans from other animal species, or when an existing human strain picks up new genes from a virus that usually infects birds or pigs. An avian strain named H5N1 raised the concern of a new influenza pandemic, after it emerged in Asia in the 1990s, but it has not evolved to a form that spreads easily between people.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported yesterday (8/1/09) a total of 183,826 confirmed cases with 1,301 deaths from 167 countries. Two new countries reported to have been infected were Channel Island and Moldova. Please believe me when I say that I am not trying to understate the potential for a major health crisis here nor am I trivializing the single death of any individual.  What I am saying however is that based on statistics alone this H1N1 “Pandemic” is a blip on the radar when compared to the hundreds of thousands of influenza death’s that occur every year, yet it is being touted as some kind of black plague.

We at Heal Products Guru stand by our position that the H1N1 flu vaccine should be avoided at all costs. We also stand strongly in our advocacy of natural immune system optimization. This is my personal opinion and the action I choose to take. You must do what you believe is right for you and your families. I wish you all health and wellbeing in the days to come.

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Of the 266 known swine flu deaths in the US 6% of the deaths (15) were pregnant women.  Pregnant women who get infected with the flu are at increased risk of serious illness and hospitalization.  In fact, the second H1N1 flu death in the United States was a pregnant woman. Because of this greater risk, pregnant women are advised to get annual flu vaccinations. On the other hand, pregnant women also are advised to be very cautious when taking any medications—especially the newest ones—because of unknown health risks to the developing fetus. What’s more, many folks remember the 1976 swine flu vaccination fiasco, when some 500 Americans out of the 43 million vaccinated developed a rare paralyzing condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome that may have been linked to the shot.  Just today, public health experts said that there’s no way to know if any rare side effects will occur in the new vaccine until millions of people are vaccinated. Those unknowns would make an expectant mom especially nervous.

Pregnant women have long been known to be at increased risk for adverse effects from seasonal influenza, and health authorities recommend every year that all pregnant women be vaccinated.  The vaccine protects not only the mother but also her baby. A study conducted in Bangladesh and reported in the New England Journal of Medicine last year found that vaccination for seasonal flu reduced flu in infants by 63%.  Even so, only about an estimated 15% receive the shots. The women are thought to be at risk of developing pneumonia — and dying – because of changes to their lungs and immune system that are a normal part of pregnancy, and many physicians fear that the risk is even higher with H1N1. In fact, British and Swiss health authorities have notoriously argued that women should postpone getting pregnant until after the pandemic has passed.

Pregnant women who want to avoid the compound, however, may need to search a bit to find a doctor who stocks thimerosal-free versions of both flu vaccines. Most gynecologists don’t bother because the CDC doesn’t say there’s any need for pregnant women to avoid thimerosal.  John Iskander, the previous head of immunization safety at the CDC, told me last fall that the reason the agency doesn’t recommend thimerosal-free vaccines is because “there’s still not enough women receiving the flu vaccine, and we don’t want to throw up another barrier in the vaccination process.” Most likely, the CDC will recommend that pregnant women get both vaccines this fall, but the agency hasn’t yet finalized its recommendations for at-risk groups (including mothers-to-be).

It is expected that the H1N1 virus will resurface in the spring and many believe it will do so with a vengeance.  Our advice, as always, is for everyone, especially those who are in high risk groups, to be proactive and begin to build up your immune systems now.  With this end in mind we suggest that you visit our site and read the article posted about the product; Zradical by Xymetri Products.

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