The package inserts for vaccines are not as useful as many parents believe, especially if they are trying to do research about vaccines.
No, it is not because your pediatrician won’t let you read them, after all, package inserts for each and every vaccine are easy to find.
And it certainly isn’t because package inserts are hiding information that would keep you from getting your kids vaccinated if you were more aware of it.
Again, vaccine package inserts are easy to find.
It is that some of the information in the vaccine package insert is not what you think it is.
Package Inserts for Vaccines
For example, in addition to Data from Clinical Studies, the Adverse Reactions section includes side effects that are voluntarily reported and for which “it may not be possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to vaccine exposure.”
What does that mean?
Just because a side effect is in the package insert, depending on the section, it doesn’t automatically mean that it was caused by the vaccine. That is why autism and SIDS are listed as adverse events for the Tripedia vaccine.
In fact, many studies have shown that there is no causal relation between vaccines and autism or vaccines and SIDS.
Package inserts are useful, but you should understand why and how they were written and how to read them if you are going to add them to your vaccine research.
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Last Updated on August 24, 2019