4. Vaccines are safe
Contrary to what extremist anti-vaccination activists might have you believe, vaccines are safe. Every vaccine is put through stringent testing before it approved by the FDA. It is only administered to the general public once the FDA is absolutely certain that it is safe. But the testing doesn’t end there, the FDA continuously monitors every vaccine to ensure that it is still safe for public use.
The IOM — Institute of Medicine — published a very comprehensive study in the year 2013. It covered the recommendations of the CDC and found that there are no significant safety risks of adhering to it. Many parents think that vaccines are unsafe due to years of misinformation campaigns, but what’s really unsafe is keeping your children unvaccinated and thus vulnerable to a plethora of diseases that could be otherwise prevented. Don’t take the risk, get your children vaccinated as soon as possible.