Parents with GIRLS URGENT !!

McKneff

Blobby8 wrote: »

If you know nothing about it , and havent studied the subject, why wouldnt you just accept it like the vast majority?
Both my kids had the injections, mainly because I believe the NHS has a better grasp of the subject than I do.

In the 50s/60s we all thought that the NHS knew more about the drug Thalidomide than we did and look what happened there.

patchwork_cat

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

In england they won't get smears till 25.

If it had been around when i was younger i'd have had it done, my sister had it and had no ill effects

Yes I know, the point about the smears was actually to point out if someone was thinking the jab would get their DD out of the 3 yearly humiliation it won't, not oh well she'll be safe cos she'll have smears anyway.

I did say that my DD would probably have it done, but I am not going to rush it as she is still very young and there is no rush.

sealady

My daughter has had them all last year! Yes it's a fairly new thing but everything starts off somewhere. For me it's not a matter of whether she is sextually active or not, it's about protecting her for the future. I would hate to have the burden on my sholders if she were to get cancer and I had not taken the opportunity of letting her have the jab. In my mind it's not different to innoculations that children get at birth. There is always the few sceptics about who will scare monger those around. Has there been actual prove that it's cause long term complications?

milliebear00001

McKneff wrote: »

In the 50s/60s we all thought that the NHS knew more about the drug Thalidomide than we did and look what happened there.

But thalidomide is an example of a drug that wasn't tested vigorously enough. It is one of the main reasons that today, we have such high standards of testing!

Incidentally, thalidomide is a very useful drug in other ways and is still widely used under other names to treat a variety of conditions.

rachbc

absolutely yes here no question. Not a single girl at the college I work in had an adverse reaction when we did the catch up programme to get girls who had missed out at school

patchwork_cat

There is a vaccine that does protect against more types and tbh when we decide to go ahead it may well be this one. I do not blindly follow govt advice as I have stated before the risk assesment for a nations health is a different set of criteria to one safeguarding your own children.

Darlyd

I am just very worried of long lasting side affects that I have read that has occurred in some kids..

Would she be safe If she always wore condoms until said man had tests, and to make sure she has regular smears, we will pay private from when she becomes active. Which is a long way off yet.

the virus is only caused by being sexually active? Even if it is with just one man, that man could of slept with hundreds of women, or their last partner could of slept with hundreds..

Scary world.. I am just so cautious, I feel it's not been around long enough to risk my DD health. We can do other measures to protect her from the virus.. as above.. surly?

patchwork_cat

bluenoseam wrote: »

I'll chime in here with something a little different for you to consider.

I've said a thousand times before that i'm a cancer survivor, it's also pretty obvious that i'm a guy - so right about now you're thinking "relevant how?!?", so i'll explain - cervical cancer is NOT the only cancer which HPV can be a trigger for, it's these days considered the leading cause of tonsil cancer and it's the spark which triggered my fight with said disease. Until the doctors told me that i thought HPV was basically a girls only virus and only caused cervical cancer (yeah you can imagine the shocked look on my face when i was told!) - so while the main benefit is to avoid cervical cancer, it reduces your chances massively of getting tonsil cancer too, and well, while it's one of the "better" cancers to get, i wouldn't wish what i went through on my worst enemy!

It's not worth ignoring the benefits, get the consent signed and get your daughter jabbed, best decision you'll ever make.

I believe it is implicated in various oral cancers as well. I also think that rates for these are rising - some to do with HPV, but not all.

Gillyx

How can you be sure your daughter will always use condoms? You can tell your children things until you are blue in the face it doesn't mean they'l listen.

Sammy85_2

And how can you be sure that your daughter will tell you when she becomes sexually active so you can start private smears?

I was close to my mum as a teenager and would talk to her about most things, but no way would i have told her that i'd started having sex.