Did you have a BCG jab ?

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I'm in my late 20's and for some reason my entire year didn't have their BCG done .... I can't remember what the reason was .

I think a few had to have It done privately , but I never had the test done or the jab itself

The scab... ouch

Did you know that the BCG is always given on the left arm so a doctor can see if you've been vaccinated. I think it's a worldwide injection placement.

I didn't have it (was it at boarding school in the 80's) but a friend of the same age in another health authority did.

I had it as a baby due to exposure. I've never had the hieff test so I've no idea if I'm still immune almost 50 years on.

I am kate thirties and had it at school. Rural SW.
I have heard that although BCG was stopped about 10 years ago, cases of TB are on the rise in uk due to immigration of populations from countries where there is no immunisation program.
I will pay for DC to have it privately when / if I can.

All my older siblings had it (mid-late 1970s). I tested positive on the skin prick test, so didn't need it (1988).

When I told my mother, she said 'Oh, so that's why you were so ill then. They never said what you had, they just kept giving you different medicine until you told us you were going to take tablets - and did, massive ones, too'. I was ill for months with a cough and fever when I was 4, only started school just before Easter in the end - and I do remember the tablets, which were huge, but better than tasting the liquid medicines. I remember being a skinny little weak thing as well when I started school - I couldn't physically bounce a ball because it was too much effort.

I think it varied from county to county as to if they did the jab. Mine didn’t in the 80s. I had to have it done later

I left school in 2005 - I had it

Had my dd in 2011 and she was given it as a baby

Apparently we live in a "high risk" area ....

I never had any immunisations at school due to contraindications. The rest of my year did though, and we’ll all be nearing forty soon.

I did. Although mine seems to be in a different place to other people. Mines on my shoulder where as most other people seem to have theirs on their arm.
Oh it made a horrible wound.

Yes, I'm in my late 20s and our area still vaccinated whilst I was at school (year 8 I think). My brother is 5 school years below me though and they had phased it out by then because they felt there wasn't a high enough prevalence of the disease locally to warrant it.

It's still done today in some areas but depends if area is high risk eg Manchester.

TB seems to be something that there is insufficient data on, particularly in older populations. We still aren't sure now if my mum had it as a child or not. If there is any hint of it even historically massive infection control measures kick in but then there's patchy immunisation now. I'm sure there's method behind it all but it seems haphazard to me.

Didn't get it in school (left in 1994) but had it last year as I work in healthcare.

I am 52. I had the vaccine as a teenager at secondary school.

My DD1 was given it back in 1995 when she was just six weeks old. We lived in Tower Hamlets at the time and it was on the rise there, so it was being offered for babies at the post natal check up.

We were no longer living in London by the time DD2 and DD3 were born (1998 and 2002) and they weren't given it. It wasn't on offer. I think it was one of the ones I paid for DD3 to have a couple of years ago when she was going on a school trip to South Africa.

ShowOfHands I was also a teenager in rural EA but a couple of years younger than you - my year group did have it (though I didn’t at that point because I had had the jab aged 5)

I left in 98 and had it.

Also remember the drama of the BCG, girls passing out left, right and centre. And that was before the needle went in.

Very interesting, so sad about them dying because of it . Definitely you should investigate it x

All very interesting story's , thanks 😁.

Yeah I had it when I was in year 7/8. So around 2007/08. I was told that because my parents were not born in the uk I had to have it.

I had it at school in the early 90s.
Kids had it at the hospital as their first ever jab due to ethnic origin.
Neither child has a scar tho. A BCG scar may show proof you have been vaccinated, but it doesn't show if you have immunity. And equally a lack of scar doesn't show you've never had the BCG.

Winter I had it in my school in the late 80s and it never blistered/scarred. I always wondered why?

A friend of mine who had theirs done at the same time, later had to have their TB immunity checked (in medical school) and they weren't immune. They also had no scar...

I know that's only a sample of two, but makes me wonder if a reaction from the vaccine is a good indication that it's worked, and no scar is a bad sign?

All of my year had it (in 1996) that's the only injection that really hurt me! I don't have any scar though, not sure why as some of my classmates had really deep ones

I suspect it could be loosely linked, but I think the fact my 2 were so small has added to the no scar.
DS1 is immune (had to prove it to start school - not in uk). DS2 was young enough that we only had to prove he had had the vaccination.
I have a scar, and am immune - spent a week sharing a room with a girl later diagnosed with TB, so had to be cleared.
So we are one scar, one not, and both immune!

I'm 28, left school in 2008, and I had it in Year 9