However, Asthma is just a blanket term to refer to many different conditions, many of which are not even auto-immune in nature.Maj wrote:Just so you are aware, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, asthma kills people, too - apparently about 4,000 people each year (and it's considered a contributing factor in another 7,000 deaths a year).Kaelik wrote:Making someone's immune system work really hard to immunize itself against diseases sometimes results in it getting too active and a temporary, almost completely harmless condition.
If it turns out that vaccinations cause any of the permanent dangerous asthmas, that would be one thing. But we don't need Mean Liar to tell us to study that, because we have been for years, and haven't found anything yet.
Current medical understanding is that some kinds of asthma develop in children due to over stimulation of the immune system.
This even includes when your kids get actual diseases, like pneumonia, but in my personal opinion that I have no specific medical knowledge to back up, it seems like vaccines would be more likely to cause this than diseases, since there isn't a real disease to fight, and the immune system is being specifically boosted.
These kinds of asthma fade away in as little as a year, though mine lasted about two years.
Not all forms of child onset asthma are caused by immune system stimulation, and not all kinds go away. But to the best of my knowledge, all asthma caused by over stimulation do in fact go away.