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Single shots for MMR

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HamereG · 09/01/2019 00:25

My DD is due to turn 1 soon and I'm considering getting her single shots for MMR. I know there is a lot of controversy on this topic but I just want to find out what my options are. Does anyone know of or have any experience with any private clinics offering this?

Thank you

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Stupomax · 09/01/2019 03:29

I gave my oldest the single shots because it was right when the MMR Andrew Wakefield controversy started and before it had been conclusively debunked.

I found a private clinic that said it could do all the shots. It was quite a long time ago now but as I recall the clinic was unlicensed and therefore not being checked in terms of safety.

We got partway through the process then they admitted they were struggling to find a mumps vaccine.

She ended up having an unlicensed mumps vaccine, very delayed.

She had a reaction to one of the injections and needed antibiotics to recover from it.

I absolutely would not recommend it.

We now live in the US, and having separate shots rather than the MMR on her vaccine record confuses everyone.

When it came to her second lot of shots she just had the MMR. No problems whatsoever.

OldPosterNewUsername · 09/01/2019 03:35

My son had the single jabs 15-16 years ago now.

I didn't know that there was any way of getting the single jabs any more now that all of the myths about them have been shown to have been lies.

Rafabella · 09/01/2019 03:36

It has a been many years since we had to make this decision for our DS. In the end though, despite one friend opting for the single shots - at great expense and hassle and exposure for their DDs I might add - we went with the combined MMR. Our DS was absolutely fine and we had no regrets whatsoever.

Wifeofapostie · 09/01/2019 06:29

What is your reasoning for wanting single vaccinations?

eurochick · 09/01/2019 06:59

I don't believe there is a single mumps vaccine anymore so there is no way of getting the same protection with single jabs.

Starlight90 · 09/01/2019 07:11

My older 2 (nearly 17 & 15) had the single shots in a clinic in Liverpool. Paid a fre hundreds for them. As a pp mentioned it was right when there was doubt overbthe MMR jab and I wasn’t happy to give it.

DC3 us nearly 11 and had the MMR.

Bandyknock · 09/01/2019 07:13

There is no single vaccine available for mumps.

Rockbird · 09/01/2019 07:21

I got the single shots with DD1 nearly 10 years ago. As PP have said, there was no single mumps shot and she ended up having the MMR before she started school anyway. DD2 just had the MMR straight off. Looking back it was expensive and utterly pointless having the singles but first time mother and all that...

RoseAndRose · 09/01/2019 07:28

There is no single mumps vaccine in manufacture at the moment.

Use google to find private clinics which offer the others (they're in several major cities).

The important thing is that your DC receive at least two doses of measles vaccines, so do get on with it.

Jackshouse · 09/01/2019 07:30

You can’t. What you can do is ask for a vaccination schedule for the other vaccines that are due at the same time but you may have to do this privately.

Why do you not want to give the MMR together?

AlfieTheRailwayCat · 09/01/2019 07:31

Single vaccines are unlicensed. I’m not sure why anybody who is concerned about vaccines would give an unlicensed vaccine? MMR is safe, much much safer than catching measles.

meditrina · 09/01/2019 07:41

They are unlicensed simply for administrative reasons - the licenses lapsed and were not renewed. There were no concerns about efficacy.

It is a laborious and expensive way to get the same protection for fewer diseases, but it is better for the DC to receive singles than to receive no vaccine.

PerverseConverse · 09/01/2019 07:50

No reason to give separately at all. Extra stress for your child receiving more injections and they still need the other boosters at 12-13 months. The NHS give MMR based on the best available highest quality evidence based research.

I've vaccinated hundreds of children and all my own children have had their MMR. One has had 3 doses as was during the measles outbreak when they vaccinated early so had to have an extra one to ensure full immunity. This was under the advice and care of one of the UKs leading immunology and infectious diseases consultants.

We are still catching up lots of older teens and young adults who have never had the vaccine due to Wakefield.

TeddyIsaHe · 09/01/2019 07:53

There is no mumps vaccine.

I’m still baffled as to why people think that the NHS which is currently on its knees financially is going to give out free vaccines that would harm children? If there was ANY proof of vaccines equating to any kind of illness or disability (outside of the incredibly rare reactions) then they wouldn’t give it. It really is that simple.

ISdads · 09/01/2019 07:54

Why are you thinking about single vaccines for mmr? I wouldn't, as they are unlicensed in uk, and no mumps. Noone talks about mumps, but I have had it. My brother was hospitalised with it. I wouldn't recommend missing it out (if no single vaccine).

Booboostwo · 09/01/2019 08:31

To be fair a former doctor did take money from a vaccine manufacturer to recruit children invited to his son’s party to a study with absolutely no scientific merit and publish an unethical paper that has since been retracted and never successfully replicated even though other scientists have tried, so you do have a point looking for single vaccines that don’t exist because they are ot necessary and increased suffering and lowered compliance rates.

Meckity1 · 09/01/2019 08:39

Long story, but has a point.

My mother refused to allow me to get vaccinated against rubella. I eventually decided to do something about it (didn't want to risk being a carrier) when I was 39. I was vaccinated against measles, and I had had mumps (it was grim), it was just the rubella I needed, but the single shots weren't available so I had the MMR. I did not develop autism.

The vaccines are designed so they don't hit all at once. This meant that first of all I felt a bit under the weather as the first vaccine worked through my system. Then a few days later I felt a little under the weather as the next set worked through my system. Then I felt a little under the weather again. I felt a bit off for around a week and a half (older immune system gets hit worse than babies) and may not have noticed it if I wasn't looking for it. And I'm still not autistic.

There are people out there whose immune systems are compromised or who cannot tolerate vaccines for legitimate reasons. Please do not put those people at risk by failing to get competent vaccines.

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