Do allergy shots contain the same harmful ingredients as regular vaccines?

Allergy shots are not vaccines, they are a dilution of what you are allergic to. Allergy shots are meant to desensitize you by diluted concentrations of the allergens. Once you tolerate the shot they increase the concentration to try and trigger your body's own natural defenses for healing. Allergy shots are NOT vaccines.

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No, they aren't useless. Compared to other vaccines, they are rather disappointing. A recent study pegged the average effectiveness at 61%, with anywhere from 15% to 80% depending on the year. Could be better but they are certainly better than nothing. They are safe though and contain no harmful substances. Healthy foods won't help either. Flu shots also save the public money. The vaccine is cheap, medical care if you get sick is not. Edit: So you can use vitamin D which is at most 10% effective and the statistics are barely significant, or go with the shot that is 68% (for kids). Easy choice.

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Do allergy shots contain the same harmful ingredients as regular vaccines?

I'm very anti-vaccines but, I was wondering if allergy shots contain the same ingredients such as mercury, themerosol, lead...ect (the list could go on). I don't trust the the medical professionals at the doctors office to tell me the exact truth. I've already been fooled once by the...

There is an element of risks with all medicines - including so-called natural or alternative medicines. Here are the risks associated with allergy shots: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/allergy-shots/MY0...

Toxicity is about dose, rather than exposure. This is a basic concept not understood by anti-vaxxers. There is nothing toxic about vaccines. Vaccines do not contain lead. I don't know what fear-mongering crap anti-vaxx website you saw that on.

Gary K -- I suppose the Journal of the International Alliance for Biological Standardization, Elsevier is a fear-mondering crap anti-vaxx website? Notice the listing of *lead* among other metals found in vaccines.

"Approximately 85 samples of injectable biological products regulated by the Center for Drugs and Biologics of the United States Food and Drug Administration were surveyed for the presence of 11 elements, namely aluminum, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, selenium, thallium and zinc, by flame and flameless methods of atomic absorption spectrometry and flame emission spectrometry. The range of products tested included whole blood, red cells, plasma, normal serum albumin, antihemophilic factor, and other products derived from blood; allergenic extracts including honey bee venom and house dust allergenic extracts; vaccines such as measles virus vaccine and typhoid vaccine; and tetanus toxoid. The metal concentrations found in the majority of these products were low or undetectable. The metal levels varied from manufacturer to manufacturer, product and lot-to-lot of the same manufacturer's products. House dust allergenic extracts had the highest concentrations of arsenic (2.4 ppm), cadmium (0.28 ppm), chromium (0.6 ppm) and lead (1.5 ppm) found in the study. A high zinc concentration (24 ppm) in an immune serum globulin was attributed to the zinc-containing rubber stopper in contact with the product. A range of 0.36-3.30 ppm aluminum was found for seven 25% normal serum albumin samples from seven manufacturers. Values of 8.2, 17 and 18 ppm aluminum were found in one manufacturer's 25% normal serum albumin. These aluminum values appeared to be the result of an anomaly in this manufacturer's production that has not been repeated to date."

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Well, it depends..