Vaccinations, worming, all very confusing! I need to do more research personally on the matter, but at the moment I'm probably going to get the 1st boosters then thats it.
Human's don't get yearly boosters for vaccines, so I don't understand why pets do? surely when you're immune, you're immune.

I sometimes wonder if the colitis problems I had with noah when younger was due to all the vaccinations and wormers being pumped into him at the time.
He also had a slight reaction to his 2nd jab and he has been recently sick on his drontal worming ( he won't be having that wormer again) so recently I've been looking into natural alternatives and what's really necessary in more depth.

I'm not sure I quite understand this titre testing, I keep hearing inflicting opinions about it, how results don't really determine if they're actually immune or not, as immunity is based on memory cells not the antibodies which is what being measured within the tests.
I'm not sure any vets within my area would even do titre's tbh, but then again I don't like my vet at all, I'm rather afraid to mention anything which may be slightly "alternative"

Memory cells are just that, they memorize things such as antibodies so once they have been exposed to the antibodies, they will remember the bug when they see it. That why once you have a positive titer, you don't revaccinate to get a stronger titer, the memory cells will work to recall it right away.


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Zorana, I'm confused by that. Could you put it in laymans (in my case, dumb blondes) terms? X


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Lol, I went to a vaccine seminar and took immunology in college. It's really complex (confuses me too so i have to get my books out sometimes) but basically we have memory cells in our bodies that remember things forever. When you get a vaccine, you become immune to the disease by getting a small amount of the disease or a modified version of it so when our bodies come in contact with it, it fights it off before you get sick.
So as babies, we get all these shots, but we may not come in contact with these bugs for many many years, it's because of these memory cells we have that we do not get sick. They remember and recall the antibodies formed a long time ago and can prevent/attack the disease. I just pulled out scared poopless and dr dodds says "once we have immunity our bodies will always remember how to attack the disease," she says this in response to a question about low titers (if a titer is low, should u revaccinate and she says no).
I'm sorry if this is even more confusing!


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Here is a good info page on vaccines and titers, there is also a video clip from Dr. Karen Becker, a holistic vet I took Gino too as a last resort. She is known world wide as one of the very best. Let me know what you think!
Titer Testing: A Crash Course | Truth4Pets

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I know but what I'm confused about, well what I read is that the memory cells can't be measured thus no real way of knowing the true immunity.

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A "titer" is a measurement of how much antibody to a certain virus (or other antigen) is circulating in the blood at that moment. Titers are usually expressed in a ratio, which is how many times they could dilute the blood until they couldn't find antibodies anymore. So let's say they could dilute it two times only and then they didn't find anymore, that would be a titer of 1:2. If they could dilute it a thousand times before they couldn't find any antibody, then that would be a titer of 1:1000. A titer test does not and cannot measure immunity, because immunity to specific viruses is reliant not on antibodies, but on memory cells, which we have no way to measure. Memory cells are what prompt the immune system to create antibodies and dispatch them to an infection caused by the virus it "remembers." Memory cells don't need "reminders" in the form of re-vaccination to keep producing antibodies. (Science, 1999; "Immune system's memory does not need reminders.") ACCESS to JUSTICE. MMR10 - IN EUROPE.
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so how do you understand what your dog is protected against exactly? or what you should vaccinate against?

fyi, posting this before I've read the link, sorry if it explains it in there.

I don't think we would need to measure memory cells bc as long as there are antibodies, there will be memory cells to recognize them at any point in time. Does that make sense? That reference is confusing me too, lol.


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