MMR - did you get your child vaccinated?

Person_one

poet123 wrote: »

If one looks at the adverse reaction stats more reports come from the MMR than do from the monvalent vaccine.

From identical samples?

poet123

http://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php

http://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php

There are also other sources which have been posted previously but for me this topic has been done to death so I am off to another now!! Sorry to post and run, but there have been so many threads on this issue (see links above) that everything has been covered in one of them. There is nothing new under the sun on this issue as yet.:D

lostinrates

Person_one wrote: »

But...the diseases are a lot harder to 'process' than the vaccines! Were you not at all worried about them catching them?

I wasn't jabbed against every thing as a child. The records are scatty as are in different countries but A jab I am certain I did not have was rubella.

I am a female and infertile but have not been using contraception so anything is possible and i recently tried to get rubella and they wanted to do an immunity test. I then found out I'd had an immunity test ten years ago. At some point in the last decade I have suffered rubella and not even noticed:o


Dh has got a similar problem, we're not sure what vaccinations he has had, (his mother is dead, and he too was brought up in more than one country) and obviously mumps is a concern. Our surgery are unwilling to vaccinate or check in the same way they did for me.

I find this staggering at a time when 'herd immunisation' etc is considered so important.

Soubrette

Both my girls had the full MMR injections (not the single ones). I did it in the same spirit as many other things like when they had passed their driving tests after I had paid for their driving lessons meaning they went out on their own in thin metal boxes that go very fast :eek: I weighed up the pros and cons and decided to go for the least risky scenario then I crossed my fingers and did what I thought was right.

I looked at the evidence, I decided it was not conclusive enough regarding the link between the MMR vaccination and autism. I would have liked to see more evidence but I had to make a decision based on what was out there. I accepted there was a very small risk of something else going wrong - allergic reaction etc. I then looked into mumps, measles and rubella and considered the risks attached to them. I then considered the idea of herd immunity and how I would feel if my child caused something to happen to someone else's child who may not have been allowed the MMR injection on medical advice.

I then considered the idea of having 3 immunisations done separately. I rejected that because a) I felt the tiny risk of having any injection was increased threefold and b) I felt there was a greater gap in immunity having the immunisations done separately, which increased the risk of harm to either my child or others compared to having the immunisations done at the same time eg my child has only been immunised against mumps but catches rubella before I have had time to immunise her, she then passes that on to a pregnant lady increasing the chance of miscarriage.

I decided that looking at both sides of the arguments available to me, it seemed more beneficial to have the 3 in 1 MMR vaccination than any other option on offer. I got the injections done and was very relieved that neither child had much in the way of adverse reaction, a bit of a temperature and a lump in the arm for a while is all I remember.

LannieDuck

poet123 wrote: »

http://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php

http://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php

There are also other sources which have been posted previously but for me this topic has been done to death so I am off to another now!! Sorry to post and run, but there have been so many threads on this issue (see links above) that everything has been covered in one of them. There is nothing new under the sun on this issue as yet.:D

I'm not sure how helpful adverse event data is without denominators. That's why I asked where you were getting your data - I was hoping there would be some sort of uptake data too. What you've linked to is American data - MMR is in the standard schedule in America, whilst monovalent measles vaccines are no longer produced in the USA (although presumably still available for parents who import?).

Comparing a simple count of adverse events in that context is completely meaningless.

mr_knight

Mankysteve wrote: »

If there is a hell "Dr" Andrew Wakefield has special level reserved from him.

I suggest pen &Penner bull poop video on other subject to cover where the concerns come from and why there a load of rubbish but it pretty much boils down to. (Ntfw or children)

1. Andrew Wakefield worked for the company that produced the single vaccine(while conducting scientific dubious and unethically experiments on children)
2. Autism rates have gone up but only because they've broadened the diagnosis indicators for autism coupled with better diagnosis techniques.( ie that odd kid in class when you grew up may have had autism)

Other children who are immune compromised rely on everyone else to vaccinated to proved them with herd protection.

Totally agree with this. Andrew Wakefield is an idiot and the other studies show no link. It is amazing the damage he has done and how so many teenagers are now facing the consequences. I haven't read the whole thread so probably repeated lots that others have said

hayday75

My 2 were born 96/99 in the mist of the MMR scares .
They have just been vaccinated .

MarilynMonroe_2

Yes mine has had all her vaccinations.
But I remember seeing a programme years ago (htink it was The Montel show) on the dangers of feeding kids tinned tuna fish to often and there being a link to autism from that, that always stuck in my mind so I rarely give her tinned tuna fish just incase!

fawd1

lostinrates wrote: »

At some point in the last decade I have suffered rubella and not even noticed:o

Not likely. That just means you've been exposed to it in a small dose (much like you are in a live vaccine) and your body naturally created antibodies. You would have noticed rubella, I assure you.

poet123

I think most people now accept that there is no Autism link, but in the US they are still looking into vaccine damage from the MMR with regard to it being a possible "trigger" for Mitochondrial problems. There is an ongoing multi agency five year study looking at this. It is for these kinds of issues that the recent court cases have paid out.