BCG - do they still do it at 12 years old ish?

[dinny]

or have they scrapped that now?

They withdrew it dinny. ds1 & ds2 had it but dd didn't.

I'm thinking about seeing if she can have it actually.

what about the children who missed it? just don't get it any more?

I was reminded today walking through Westfield and seeing two men gobbing on the floor.

No the BCG is only given now to certain groups considered "at risk". It's not given routinely any more.

ds had it a day or so after birth,11 yrs ago.

they offer it at the hosp where dc3 is due to be born next year, I think

All my 3 had it at their 6 week check - I assumed because we lived in a high risk London borough at the time, but I've heard of more and more babies having it now.

I would have thought we were previously in a hig enough risk borough (Wandsworth) to have it, but neither dd or ds did

I'll prob investigate getting it privately at some point maybe

Withdrawn for teens in July 2005.

ah, thanks Saggar

there are to many strains of TB now. To vax them all would cost a fortune.

DS had his when he was a baby. Everyone thinks it's odd when I announce this. I had no idea Fulham, London was such a high risk area