Vaccination for TB

hev_2

Sooz - Thank you for that link. I may look into it, ask my GP about it and confer with OH. There seems to be a lot of useful information.

I notice that they also do chickenpox. I wonder how that works, whether it would protect against shingles as well?

My late mother was far dippier than me. I was one of the first to get the measles jab, she had to pay privately, and I had the smallpox vaccine, one of the last in the late sixties. However she wouldn't let me have the rubella vaccination

I'm sure I'm displacing a lot of my worries about looking after DS on single issues, first it was weaning and now TB vaccination. I dread to think what will be next - poor lad!

hev_2

Mrs_P_Pincher wrote: »

I had the BCG vaccination when I was 12 or 13, at senior school and when TB started to rise again and I was working with susceptible groups of people I was assured by my GP that it conferred immunity - period. I was horrified therefore to read in the paper a couple of weeks ago that the BCG only ever conferred about 75% immunity and then only for about 15 years.

Maybe there is someone on here who can confirm or deny this, but I am concerned, especially as it is a disease that the new generation of doctors have not seen until now and often apparently misdiagnose. I just think of the Brontes and it gives me the creeps. I'm not ready to go into a decline yet.

Mrs PP

If you look at previous posts they say that TB is treatable and if you have a good immune system to start with then you are in a good position. I will be interested in any answers, however, because I always assumed that the BCG was not 100% effective but they are trialling new vaccines which are (supposedly) a bit better.

angel

Does anyone know if asthmatics are more susceptible to TB?