Are we going backwards or forwards? Keep in mind as you read this precautionary policy from 1958 that they were only talking about a few vaccines, smallpox, polio and diphtheria. Today babies are given 36 vaccines against 14 different infections before they are two years old. The CDC has quite a lot of information about who should NOT get each vaccine, but nowhere do they mention eczema as a reason NOT to get vaccines.

In 1958 the American Academy of Pediatrics made the following statement:

1) No child with atopic eczema or other skin disorder should be vaccinated.
2) No child should be vaccinated if any member of his family has eczema or other skin disorder.
3) Parents of children with eczema should be notified at the onset of the disease of the danger from vaccination contact.
4) If a sibling of a child with atopic eczema is vaccinated, he must be completely separated from that child for at least 21 days.
5) Forms used by state and local health departments for parents’ consent to vaccination should include an appropriate warning of the contraindications.
6) Eczema vaccinatum should be a reportable disease.
7) Patients recently vaccinated must be excluded from pediatric wards containing patients with atopic eczema, other diseases of the skin, burns or healing surgical incisions.
8) Vaccination may be recommended at 2 months of age, especially for babies from strongly allergic families.

Received December 18, 1957.
Accepted February 18, 1958.
Copyright © 1958 by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Read the abstract and access the full paper here.

It is somewhat comforting to know that the CDC recognizes there are some people who should NOT get a DTaP shot:

However, rarely have I ever heard of pediatricians expressing hesitancy about administering this shot or asking about these adverse events. Also, many times a “life-threatening allergic reaction after a dose of DTaP” is denied as having been connected to the vaccine.

The bottom line is, in 1958 eczema was recognized as a signal that the immune system could not handle a vaccine. Today, it’s up to parents to educate and inform themselves on the true risk of vaccines in order to have a healthy baby. Parents will bear all the weight and responsibility for any vaccine harm.

Author: Becky Hastings, wife, mother, grandmother, passionate follower of Jesus and truth. As a breastfeeding counselor for over 23 years Becky is devoted to helping parents make wise decisions for the long-term health and wellbeing of their babies. As a member of a Vaccine Safety Education Coalition, Becky writes and speaks on the topic of vaccine safety.

Addendum. Helpful information if you have experienced eczema. https://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/thinking-moms-guide-red-flags-eczema/

This 2004 study purports to study vaccines and allergic responses such as eczema, but does not use a non-vaccinated control group. They compare DPT to MMR vaccines and make ‘adjustments’ for various factors. The ‘science’ seems to be designed to squelch all true understanding of the real risk of vaccines. Studies that have compared completely non vaccinated to vaccinated children show the non vaccinated to be significantly healthier. These studies have mostly been privately funded and are not recognized by government agencies who refuse to do their own study.

In the 20 minute video below Dr Shiva Ayyadurai provides a helpful informed explanation of the modern immune system and compares it to what was known about the immune system at the time of the development of vaccines. The truth is, doctors today are still operating under the old understanding and many will not associate auto-immune disorders like eczema to vaccines.

MIT PHD Explains the Reality of the Modern Immune System https://t.co/XHZhY17RXh— Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD. Inventor of Email (@va_shiva) January 2, 2020