At 24 months of age, Ryan received the new Varivax vaccine, for chicken pox. This was despite the fact that he was taking the antibiotic Septra at the time for an ear infection, and his records show that he was prescribed another round of Septra shortly thereafter, for either the same, or yet another, ear infection. Vaccines are not to be given when a child is sick, yet Ryan’s doctor gave him a live-virus vaccine! The package insert for Varivax clearly states under “Contraindications” for vaccination “any febrile illness or active infection”. I still was not connecting the dots between Ryan’s vaccines and his subsequent regression and development of odd behaviors after every set of vaccines…
