Vaccines and Immunity.
​Indeed, time and again, we know that giving humans and animals – who already have an immune deficiency, autoimmune disease or immune dysfunction – a vaccine may, in fact, cause the disease it is trying to prevent.
The debate remains controversial. Can vaccines trigger immune-mediated diseases in the general population or in patients with PIDD? While young babies, puppies, ponies or kittens exposed frequently to polyvalent vaccine antigens may not demonstrate overt adverse effects, their relatively immature immune systems may be temporarily or more permanently harmed from such antigenic exposures. Consequences in later life may be the increased susceptibility to chronic debilitating diseases. Some veterinarians trace the increasing current problems with allergic and immunological diseases to the introduction of MLV vaccines some 20 years ago. While other environmental factors no doubt have a contributing role, the introduction of these vaccine antigens and their environmental shedding may provide the final insult that exceeds the immunological tolerance threshold of some individuals.
From my 50-year perspective as a veterinary immunologist and hematologist which included my being the Executive Secretary of the New York State Council on Human Blood and Transfusion Services, vaccines can trigger these diseases. The caveat is that affected individuals must first have the genetic predisposition to have vaccine-associated disorders.
Overall, we have to remember:

• Immunity is a functional spectrum.
• Humans and animals that appear outwardly healthy could still be relatively immunocompromised.
• We know that certain vaccines are considered unsafe for humans and animals that have an immunodeficiency or immune dysfunction so we avoid giving vaccines to this population.
• Vaccines alter and can suppress the immune system and should not be given to any individual currently taking immunosuppressive medications or undergoing cancer treatment.
• Any vaccine can produce a mild or severe side effect, which means the body is overreacting.
• We often do not know the exact causes or triggers of immune-mediated diseases, and there could be one or multifactorial.
• It has been postulated that certain vaccines could prevent or modify rather than cause or exacerbate immune-mediated diseases.  

Accordingly, clinicians need to be aware of this potential and offer alternative approaches for preventing infectious diseases in susceptible animals. Appropriate alternatives to current vaccine practices include: measuring serum antibody titers; avoidance of unnecessary vaccines or over-vaccinating; caution in vaccinating ill, geriatric, debilitated, or febrile individuals, and tailoring a specific minimal protocol for dogs or families of breeds known to be at increased risk for immunological reactions.The accumulated evidence indicates that vaccination protocols should no longer be considered as a “one size fits all” program.
As I stated, this is multifactorial. In my opinion, why vaccinate an animal or human that has sufficient immunity to a disease, if the risk of infection is low and the symptoms are not life-threatening, particularly if we know that adverse effects can happen.
TreatmentInherently, we want to boost the immune system of an individual with an immunodeficiency. However, during an immune-mediated or sensitivity flare up, we want to “suppress” or down-regulate that portion of the immune system. This is an important point to make: people often assume that immune support or boosters will correct an immune-mediated disease. However, this may actually exacerbate the problem. It is quite a balancing act for all conventional and holistic medical professionals, because we want to boost one side of the immune system but down-regulate the other side.
The good news though is that standard conventional treatments such as corticosteroids and other immune suppressant drugs used for immunologic disorders can often be replaced or augmented with holistic alternatives and homeopathic remedies.
GlossaryImmune Disorder: An umbrella phrase for dysfunction of the immune system which can be either overactive or underactive.
Immune-Mediated (Autoimmune) disease: A disease that results when the body’s immune system reacts against the individual’s own tissue(s).
Immunocompromised: A state in which an individual’s immune system is absent, weakened or dysfunctional.
Immunodeficiency: A state of either a congenital (present at birth) or an acquired (secondary) abnormality of the immune system that prevents adequate immune responsiveness.
Immunomodulator: A chemical agent, drug, or other substance that modifies the immune response or the functioning of the immune system.
Immunosuppression: Suppression of natural immune responses.
Vaccine: A substance that contains components from an infectious organism or other antigen (protein) which stimulates an immune response in order to protect against subsequent exposure to that organism or antigen.
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At 9 to 12 months of age you may feed 50 to 75% RAW with their kibble.
We don’t recommend feeding raw chicken leg bones, only wings and necks.
They also love their steamed Normandy vegetables also from Costco, a Tablespoon of Coconut oil each day for a healthy shiny coat. I cook / steam the vegetables in chicken broth until very soft and mushy when they are babies, then gradually increase the firmness of them until they will eat raw carrots, sweet potatoes and anything else vegetable or raw greens by 12 months of age.

We give a tablespoon of fresh plain (or honey) organic yogurt as well.
They can have any good quality human food and table scraps, just NO junk food i.e. frozen, prepared and packaged or highly processed, if it's not good for us or our children then it's really not good for them.

So basically just plain unadulterated food.
Vets don't recommend table scraps because most Americans diet isn't fit for a dog (or kids)
Feed your new Standard Poodle Puppy the best diet you can which is homemade food, it's not that expensive when you consider the vet bills your saving.
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