Vaccine awareness is a vital part of natural parenting. At The
Mother magazine we regularly publish articles on vaccines by
Joanna Karpasea-Jones, founder of the Vaccination Awareness
Network, so that parents have access to information not given
out by the government and Department of Health. Their theory is
that if your child is exposed to a weakened version of the
disease, he’ll produce antibodies to that disease and become
‘immune’, so that he’ll never contract the illness. The trouble
with this theory is that it only focuses on one small aspect of
the immune system ~ the antibodies, and it fails to look at all
the other functions responsible for protecting your child’s
health. Holistic health care teaches us that the immune system
is also made up of the skin, mucous membranes in the nose and
throat, ears and eyes, nasal hairs, saliva, the spleen,
intestines, tonsils, the thymus gland and even the brain. All of
these parts work together in a holistic way to bring about a
“whole body immunity”, which is onl