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Searing lesson in sun safety Immunisation bears no link to autism numbers
SHE may be only eleven years old, but Maddison Sale has a poignant sun safety message that comes from the heart.
Speaking ahead of the sold- out Violets and Lace Mother’s Day tea party, Maddison said she learnt the importance of sun safety the hard way.
Her aunt, Katie- Lee Spence, lost a 10- month battle against melanoma three years ago.
Katie- Lee, mother to Violet, was only 30.
“Ever since Katie passed away, every time I step outside and expose myself to the blazing sun I think of Katie and how I can protect myself IMMUNISATION
protects people against harmful infections before they come into contact with them in the community. Immunisation uses the body’s natural defence mechanism — the immune response — to build resistance to specific infections. and help educate Maddison said.
“I try to advocate that I learnt the importance of sun safety the hard way, by losing someone I love to melanoma.’’
The articulate St Margaret Mary’s College student said she never understood the sun safety message until her beloved aunt passed away.
“Every time I used to go outside my mum would say to me put sunscreen on. I never really understood the importance of it until Katie- Lee became very ill,’’ she said. “Katie never gave up hope, believing that a cure would be found.’’
The charity Katie- Lee helped establish, Violets and
others,’’ Lace, has held a hugely popular Mother’s Day event for the past three years.
The charity raises funds for melanoma research and awareness of sun safety.
Maddison and her family have attended every Violets and Lace Mother’s Day tea party.
“Every year I look forward to this very special event and I know Katie would be very pleased with how so many people are helping to spread awareness and help raise money to find a cure of this detrimental disease,’’ she said. “Katie’s legacy lives on and I’m very proud to be a Violets and Lace sun safety ambassador.’’
The first reason some people have believed vaccines can cause neurological problems is because some vaccines before 2000 contained thimerosal, which is a mercury- based preservative.
Mercury is harmful if it reaches a certain level in the body and causes neurological
Violets and Lace founding committee member Carolyn Seri said tickets for the 100plus seat Mother’s Day tea party sold out within two hours of being made available.
The committee is dedicated to continuing Katie- Lee’s legacy.
“We are so grateful that so many want to hear Katie’s story and her message,’’ she said. “We are appealing to the community to help us make this event special by asking for generous donations of prizes for raffles and to auction.’’
Contact the Violets and Lace team via their Facebook page. I WAS on an unwavering mission to declutter my children’s wardrobes – and my linen cupboard – the other weekend.
Frustrated when I couldn’t find my three- year- old son’s favourite rashie because it was concealed behind a small mountain of clothes and toys, I instigated a declutter order immediately.
I decided to cull all the clothes my three children had outgrown or didn’t wear anymore, as well as toys that were not used regularly.
As I was filling a second giant- sized box of my children’s outgrown clothes and rarely played- with toys to donate to St Vincent de Paul, I came across a couple of boxes of nappies.
For the past six years I’ve kept boxes of nappies in one of the shelves in my linen cupboard.
As I pulled the two unopened boxes of nappies and one half used boxed of nappies out of the cupboard and put them in the large pile of goods to be donated to charity, I couldn’t help but acknowledge I had crossed a very important milestone in my parenting journey. As I emptied my shelf of all traces of nappy boxes, my first, bittersweet, thought was “my babies are no longer babies, they’re little girls and a little boy”.
I say bittersweet because it dawned on me, as I was in the midst of a major declutter of my children’s belongings, that I no longer have a baby in the house.
My last born child is three. He no longer needs nappies.
I’m done with changing nappies ( until grandmotherhood beckons).
Although my third child hasn’t needed a nappy for some time, the significance of it didn’t hit me until I was decluttering my cupboards.
There is no other item that signifies babyhood more than a nappy, and as of last week- KIDS Promotions in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is bringing children’s television show Play School on a national concert tour with a new show for 2015 — Once Upon a Time.
The tour is coming to Townsville on April 28 playing at Jupiters, bringing with it loads abnormalities. However, the form of mercury used in vaccines was ethyl mercury which has not been shown to accumulate in the body or cause problems. In addition, since 2000 in Australia none of the scheduled child vaccines contain thimerosal.
They are all now delivered in single- use sealed vials which do not require a preservative.
The second reason is that one small study of 12 children was published in Britain in 1998 which specifically linked MMR vaccine with autism. This study was subsequently withdrawn because the data presented was shown to be fraudulent.
Autism is often recognised in children between one and two years of age; because vaccines are given before this age parents may consider a link.
Studies, however, do not show any relationship.
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