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To say no to covid vaccine for DS?

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Clarabell77 · 20/10/2024 08:55

My DS10 has asthma - mild albeit a chest infection 14 months ago ended up in an overnight in hospital on a nebuliser/steroid and he’s had to have a steroid once during that time for another infection.

He’s been identified as being at risk and offered a Covid vaccine. I’m not sure whether to allow him to have it as I’m sure he’s had Covid quite a few times when we’ve all tested positive at home - can’t test him as he won’t let me near him with a swab. He’s had mild symptoms, even when ours weren’t.

He’s had the flu vaccine twice and taken unwell within weeks on both occasions so I’ve opted out of that one this year. Does anyone have any thoughts on the Covid one? Ideally someone who has actual knowledge, not from YouTube, I’m not a covid denier or anti vaxxer.

AIBU to not get him the vaccine?

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Itsallsostressful · 20/10/2024 10:37

howdoIrecover · 20/10/2024 09:11

I work in pharma, please do not give your baby the Covid jab.

Erm...its not a baby ! And 'work in pharma' is quite a wide reaching phrase.

TheFlakyPoster · 20/10/2024 10:37

Difficult to give unbiased advice as I am a nurse practitioner in A+E and very pro vaccine particularly having seen the recent influx of poorly Covid patients again. I'm asthmatic myself so always have my Flu and Covid boosters but I have needed steroids for wheezy respiratory illnesses over the last few winters so that forms part of my decision making process. To those stating myocarditis can be a side effect of the vaccine, you are more likely to get this as a post viral or post infectious complication which is the only time I've seen it clinically. Obviously there are risks and benefits to any medical procedures including vaccines and its up to the individual to weigh up the pros and cons for themselves. For me the benefits vastly outweigh the risks.

MonkeyToHeaven · 20/10/2024 10:36

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I've just finished working on a research project alongside some of country's leading immunologists and oncologists which began just before covid hit. None work for big pharma but are all researchers at Univerities.

Every single one of them had the initial vaccine and the boosters and every single one of them would tell you you're spouting ill informed nonsense.

The OP asked about vaccinating a vulnerable 10 year old. Not a perfectly healthy child or even teenager. Unless you have specific data relating to those circumstances and the background to assess that data, I'd refrain from commenting.

PandoraSox · 20/10/2024 10:36

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Sheep! Ha! Time to get the anti-vaxxer bingo card out!

BTW, I thought everyone who had the vaccine back in 2020/21 was supposed to be dead by now 🫠

sleepwouldbenice · 20/10/2024 10:34

howdoIrecover · 20/10/2024 09:11

I work in pharma, please do not give your baby the Covid jab.

Rubbish

Howmanycatsistoomany · 20/10/2024 10:34

He’s been identified as being at risk and offered a Covid vaccine.

YABU to ignore the advice of actual health professionals and instead ask a load of randoms without so much as an O level in biology on Mumsnet for advice about this.

HornyHornersPinger · 20/10/2024 10:33

The people like @Victoriancat who say they've had flu many times and just go to bed and sweat it out are the ones who've obviously never really had flu...

ExtraOnions · 20/10/2024 10:33

I’ve had my Covid vaccine this year, and my flu one .. I have them every year. I think vaccines are one of the greatest things ever created by mankind.

When I look at the suffering of the generations before us, the early deaths, and the lifelong disability caused by measles, German measles, Polio etc. The joy that my daughter won’t go through that.

My grandma was one of 13, 3 of her siblings died in early childhood due to things now preventable due to vaccines and anti-biotics.

You anti-vaccine types would still have people dying of smallpox..

Hereforaglance · 20/10/2024 10:33

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midgetastic · 20/10/2024 10:33

You have opted out of the flu vaccine for an asthmatic child because the vaccine made him a bit poorly?

Put bluntly that choice could kill your child.

Flu and asthma is a terribly serious combination.

Covid to date doesn't seem to have hit most asthmatics that hard - and you don't automatically get offered the covid vaccine now just because of asthma - it has to be classed as quite bad asthma

At the very least please reconsider the flu jab and get him protected

Please

sleepwouldbenice · 20/10/2024 10:32

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Jesus
The risk is higher from covid. Find another rabbit hole

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 20/10/2024 10:32

HornyHornersPinger · 20/10/2024 10:28

Right! No dilemmas to be had, just funerals to plan...

You don't have to vaccinate ALL your children - just the 1's you definitely want to keep.

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😅

Howmanycatsistoomany · 20/10/2024 10:31

howdoIrecover · 20/10/2024 09:11

I work in pharma, please do not give your baby the Covid jab.

Sure you do🙄

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 20/10/2024 10:31

Victoriancat · 20/10/2024 10:26

Often :)

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No you haven't!!

Mumtobabyhavoc · 20/10/2024 10:31

I've got mild asthma. No issues with flu+covid vaccines past few years since covid vaccine became available.
I'd speak with gp and likely get both for my ds in your shoes. It's tough making decisions for others. 🩷

Choosenandenough · 20/10/2024 10:30

Evilartsgrad · 20/10/2024 10:23

"them vaccines...been pushed"

No comment.🙄

DS1 has life threatening asthma. Did he get the vaccines first opportunity and every one thereafter? You bet your bippy.

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Why mock the way someone has said something? No need for that. Just address what they’ve said surely, instead of making fun of how they said it.

Julen7 · 20/10/2024 10:30

Victoriancat · 20/10/2024 10:27

Had flu many times! Bed rest and sweating it out, people now are way too reliant on vaccinating for absolutely everything.

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Seriously, “many times”?

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 20/10/2024 10:29

Julen7 · 20/10/2024 10:25

Have you ever had flu?

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Flu isn't that dramatic!!!!!!.
Fucking hell.
This is someone who has never experienced the flu

Anewuser · 20/10/2024 10:29

Victoriancat · 20/10/2024 10:27

Had flu many times! Bed rest and sweating it out, people now are way too reliant on vaccinating for absolutely everything.

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If you have a vulnerable family member, you’ll do anything to keep them alive.

Your immune system is clearly strong if you can just sweat flu out.

You may want to visit the respiratory ward at your local hospital to find out what flu and covid does to the vulnerable.

Smallsalt · 20/10/2024 10:28

howdoIrecover · 20/10/2024 09:11

I work in pharma, please do not give your baby the Covid jab.

In the cafe?

PandoraSox · 20/10/2024 10:28

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Can you provide links to the evidence, please?

HornyHornersPinger · 20/10/2024 10:28

ClytemnestraWasMisunderstood · 20/10/2024 09:01

Don't you just long for the days before vaccines were invented? I mean, no dilemma to be had. What a shame clever people started inventing things to save lives/minimise the effects of a disease

Right! No dilemmas to be had, just funerals to plan...

You don't have to vaccinate ALL your children - just the 1's you definitely want to keep.

IggyAce · 20/10/2024 10:27

@Clarabell77 was it the nasal flu vaccine that he had previously? My ds has asthma mild and seasonal but he too as a toddler took ill approximately 10 days after the nasal vaccine and ended up in hospital on steroids. I opted out the following year and he was fine no major asthma attacks just a couple of chest infections. I did want him protected so spoke with my gp and they agreed that he could have the jab, so each year since age 5 he’s had the flu jab.

Victoriancat · 20/10/2024 10:27

Anewuser · 20/10/2024 10:26

You've been fortunate enough then not to have flu then?

My son caught influenza A (despite getting the jab), progressed to pneumonia then sepsis. It would have been deadly.

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Had flu many times! Bed rest and sweating it out, people now are way too reliant on vaccinating for absolutely everything.

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 20/10/2024 10:26

rosesaredeadvioletsaretoo · 20/10/2024 10:21

The hideous vaccine injuries, the risk of serious illness and death, ans the fact that it doesn’t seem to work, means it would be a hard no from me!

Oh dear🙄