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(Score: 3, Informative) by pTamok on Tuesday March 15 2016, @06:36PM
In this instance, your pediatrician is an idiot.
Sorry, let me rephrase that: your pediatrician seems to be providing incorrect advice.
The immune system, even in infants, has the ability to respond to a lot of different challenges, and it is not a case of lining each disease up serially to be knocked off by the child's immune system, one-by-one. People have looked into the so-called benefits of 'staging' vaccines, and they are non-existent. The longer the child remains unvaccinated, the greater the chance of the child succumbing to the disease it is meant to be being vaccinated against. This has been investigated. Staging is baloney. See: ama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=200499 (Timeliness of Childhood Vaccinations in the United States)
We found that 11% of children were undervaccinated for measles for more than 6 of a possible 8 months during the first 24 months of life and another 3% were undervaccinated for 3 to 6 months. Because only a single dose of measles vaccine is recommended in early childhood, these delays represent a period of complete lack of protection against measles. Elimination efforts have greatly reduced the incidence of measles in the United States to only 56 reported cases in 2003.31 However, risk of importation remains high due to global measles circulation, high rates of transmission, and the large volume of travelers to and from the United States.32 With each imported measles case, population immunity is tested and an outbreak or epidemic could result if there are enough susceptible hosts due to delays in vaccination, lack of vaccination, or inadequate immune response to vaccination. The US measles epidemic in 1989 to 1991 was caused by a failure to provide timely vaccination,33 and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “only a sustained effort to provide age-appropriate vaccination will prevent another resurgence of measles.”2
Pertussis is another example of the importance of timely vaccination. During 2003, 11 647 cases of pertussis were reported in the United States31; incidence was highest among infants who were younger than 6 months34 and infants accounted for the highest proportion of pertussis-related hospitalizations and deaths.35 Among infants who contracted pertussis during the 1990s, at least 44% were undervaccinated for their age. Furthermore, among the 25 pertussis-related deaths in infants aged 2 to 11 months, 15 had not received any doses of pertussis vaccine.36 While these children were too young to have received the complete 4-dose series of DTaP, data suggest that the risk of pertussis-related hospitalization is decreased if children have received 1 or 2 doses of vaccine.35 Furthermore, because siblings are a source of transmission to infants too young to be vaccinated,36,37 timely vaccination of these children can indirectly protect young infants by decreasing their exposure. We found that 16% of children were undervaccinated for DTaP for more than 6 of the first 24 months of life and another 14% were undervaccinated for 3 to 6 months.
The capabilities of the immune system were illustrated when Paul Offit made his infamous 10,000 vaccines remark. It is worth reading and understanding what he actually said, rather than relying on third-party reporting:
http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2015/10/06/to-all-who-use-paul-offits-10000-vaccine-paper-to-scare-others-put-up-or-shut-up-and-that-means-you-age-of-autism-and-all-your-team/ [leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk]