Common Household Chemicals Diminish Vaccine Effectiveness


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Do you know what PFCs are?  Perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, are common household chemicals found in products to prevent staining and sticking, such as non-stick cookware and stain resistant carpeting.  They are even found in candy wrappers and other food packaging.

Pollution in People explains:

Why should I be concerned?



We know that PFCs are bad for our health, but a new study says they may be interfering with vaccine effectiveness as well.

Parents who vaccinate feel they are protecting their children.  Putting all potential side effects aside, even vaccinated children sometimes still contract the very illness they are assumed to be protected from by the shots.  Take for example Pertussis/Whooping Cough, as explains:

We do see cases of kids appropriately vaccinated who still get the disease,” said Angie Cierzniewski, a state vaccine preventable disease epidemiologist.

“Some vaccines we think of as rockstars — they work exceptionally well and it’s almost unheard of to get the disease once a person is vaccinated,” she said, giving the example of the vaccine for measles.

The pertussis vaccine “is not a rockstar,” she said. It’s possible to be fully vaccinated and get the disease, she said. Typically, the disease would be less severe if the person is fully vaccinated.

Could exposure to common household chemicals like PFCs be interfering with vaccine effectiveness?  Time Healthland reports:




We can not underestimate the effect common household chemicals have on both our natural health and the medicines we rely on to keep  us healthy.



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