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What's the minimum age before getting it anyway?
Not sure what the ages are, I'm sure MoK will answer that but it's now part of the early years ( young kids) program.
I was vaccinated individually as a child, why can't i have the option to choose the same for my child someday?
The MMR is used because as MoK said the contra indications are higher with the separate vaccines.
Theres plenty of instances of people whove been vaccinated and still get the disease, which is a bit :eek2: in itself.
At the end of the day it's a personnal choice, but without a good reason I think you'd be mad not to.
i didn't know we're supposed to get an MMR top up and wasn't told i needed anything else
however my friends boyfriend told me theres still some more that you get post 16
And about the autism thing...the age that children get their jab is usually the age when they start showing signs of autism. Depending on how severe it is, they may not notice for several years. And as its to do with the genes you inherit - i don't see how a vaccine can change your genes? But then again i'm not an expert.
You probably won't need a top-up. The MMR was introduced in around 1988, so babies born after that would have had all the jabs they needed, and I'm pretty sure it protects you for life.
You could check out what you've had if you're worried. Ask a parent if they have records of what jabs you've had.
As I said before, the choice is yours. Just make sure that you go into the decision well informed and don't believe the sensationalist media headlines - like those about MMR.
Prevalence of autism hasn't increased since the introduction of MMR.. Prevalence of measles etc has since people stopped having their kids vaccinated. For me, that is the best comparison that there is.
You can. Privately. The NHS will not fund separate jabs becuase a single vaccincation is clinically sound and there is no scientific basis, which stands up to scruitiny, for separating them out. In fact, the indications are that separate vaccinations are actually more dangerous.
So, if the NHS offered that service they would a) be wasting money, and b) not following best, worldwide, clinical advice.
Secondly, is it right to put a baby through six jabs (remember you have two courses of three vaccinations) because people are [unnecessarily] concerned? There is no logical, or moral, reason why they would.
It just increases the risk. Death cannot be undone.
Kerching :thumb:
Vaccinations programmes only work when large numbers of people take part. Without that there are more people who can carry and transmit the disease and more people who are not protected from it.
As I have said before, the rate of measles has increased since Dr Wakefield's comments were given undue publicity. That is no coincidence.
Ever heard of anyone getting small pox?
I doubt it because of the worldwide vaccination programme undertaken before you were born. It is, in effect, dead.
Basically vaccines are a case of you being given a modified version of the host disease. This helps your body create antibodies to the disease. Sometimes that manifests itself with the disease.
It's fairly common for patients vaccinated with the flu vaccine to develop symptoms within a few days.
In case you hadn't guessed, I thin kthat people are stark raving bonkers not to vaccinate their kids. The risks are so small to be insignificant, the implications can be too horrific to contemplate, IMHO. However, each to their own. I'm just glad that I'm not the doctor who has to tell them that they won't have kids/that they have a deformed baby or that the child is going to die - just because the parents had some unjustified fear.
My son has also had all the vaccinations he has been called up for. He has a type of autism but the signs were present before he had his MMR injections. Not that I believe in any connection anyhow. My son then went on to have a strain of mumps after he had his MMR vaccination!! Apparently it is very rare these days because of the vaccination and the doctor had to go and get a second opinion as he hadn't seen it for years, he told me the vaccination doesn't protect you from every strain of the disease.
I had the MMR 3 times as a baby, due to lost medical records :rolleyes:
ive just had mine redone a few weeks ago but it was cos of the mumps risk for going to uni. i havent heard about rubella though