I am finding it harder and harder to trust anyone in the medical industry these days. Just today we went in for a simple frenotomy, and the doctor told us they would not do it because they would not risk the health of our child, who is having a hard time breast feeding because of her tongue tied status. Her issue was that we were administering vitamin K orally, and did not get the standard vitamin K shot that is considered standard and is administered as a matter of fact in the medical industry these days. Here was our reasoning for not having the shot administered. It is a mega dose of synthetic vitamin K, that uses aluminum as a preservative. Aluminum is a heavy metal with known neurotoxic effects on human and animal nervous systems. After a week of sleep deprivation I did not recall what was in the shot, so I asked her if the shot contains any heavy metals, or aluminum (at that time not being sure if it was a heavy metal). She promptly said no, and continued to insist that she would not perform the procedure because of the apparent medically significant risk of bleeding in the brain due to how hard she would cry with the procedure.
Too little too late, we got the shot, and asked what the ingredients were. Sure enough, aluminum. I know all the arguments for and against aluminum in injectable medications, and I understand the claimed use in vaccines as an adjuvant, but as a preservative, I consider that just damned lazy and cheap. I believe that the arguments for its use as an adjuvant are, though understandable, it is still a cop-out. I believe any alternative should be found and used, even if it costs more, or is harder to manufacture, or requires boosters or a longer procedure. What ever the case, I think it is logically unsound to say that it is good to inject neurotoxic heavy metals into infants or anyone for that matter, just as long as it is a little bit at a time. Bioaccumulation is a real thing, and guess what, aluminum is bioaccumulated with the best of them, which means over time there is more that builds up in tissues, like the brain, the more a person is exposed, and it is dead simple logic to understand that more of a neurotoxin build up in nervous system tissue typically means more neurotoxic effect with the increase.
And damn it, what about the risk to our daughter’s optimum health when she can not be breast fed due to her tongue tied status? I consider formula an option that is far from what I would call healthy. It is a must of course in many circumstances, I get that, but to deny breast feeding for the first month, I consider that a health risk, when it could be avoided with a damned simple snip.
I should not need to do a bullshit test every time a doctor tells me something. I am tired of running into this.
Oh and if you are curios, the stats for infants that were given vitamin K orally having bleeding complications are .0014% to .0064% have late VKDB, which is the only type that we could have at this point. That is the risk that the doctor was so desperate to avoid. I think that there is a higher risk of us getting in an accident on the way home from the wasted trip to the clinic today.