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

Im mid 40’s and had it. Hurt like hell for a long time afterwards. Made worse by the boys kicking on your arn😂

Knocking not kicking!

Mid 30's and I had it. I remember the weeks of everyone comparing their scab/puss/scar!

Early 40s. Had the jab twice, when I was young and my dad had TB and again at the usual time because there weren’t enough raised dots on the test.

Given that people move a lot including into big cities I’m surprised that it was stopped if they decide there is enough risk there. However it sounds like they are locally paid for so a rural county wouldn’t see the need.

Almost 50 and my entire year and the year after mine didn't have the bcg as there were too many adverse reactions to the vaccination in the previous 3 years. It was reinstated after that.

That’s interesting Gertrude, that might be why I didn’t have it then. No one mentioned it to us, it just didn’t happen and I wasn’t aware it was meant to.

I had it at school in about 1989/1990

Dds has it at a few weeks old in 2000/2001 we lived in London

Think I was only really aware because my older brother had it and had a bad reaction, along with a lot of his year, and my younger sister had it with no ill effects at all.

I'm 28 and had it in third year of high school, so 2005.

I had the test at school & had immunisation - turned out I was vaccinated at 2 days old. Was born in Germany. Dunno if that was their schedule 50 years ago.

Yes.
I think I had it in 1987 (year 3 secondary in old money).

I'm early 30's and my year was vaccinated. I had a positive heaf test and after some debate amongst the school nursing staff wasn't given the vaccine. Thankfully they didn't give the vaccine as it can be dangerous to be vaccinated when already immune, hence the requirement for the heaf test. I should have been referred for a chest x-ray to check I didn't actually have TB too, but that didn't happen. I'm healthy almost 20 years on, so I presume my immunity comes from being exposed as a toddler as an uncle on one side of the family and a friend of an uncle on the other side had TB around that time.

I think the BCG is not given as routine any longer and only given to at risk communities or those who visit countries where it is endemic. We were offered it for dd1 as my husband was born abroad, but declined as we don't go to that country as his family don't live there now.

Early 30s and I had it. I remember there were rumours going around school that if you punched someone on the arm where they had it terrible things would happen to them and of course a lot of the boys were going around doing just that.

And my friend was terrified so I offered to let her squeeze my hand while she had hers done and that hurt me more than my own jab did!

Yes, I had it. I'm 41 and had it done at school when I was 13.

I had it done in my teens at school, in about 1999 (inner London borough). I have no scar from it at all, so they did a second heaf test to ensure that I'd gained immunity and I have.

I had both DDs in an outer London Borough with a big migrant population but they don't do the BCG here. I presume because of infection rates but it seems quite a blunt tool especially as if they'd been born half a mile up the road it would have been recommended...!

I had it as a baby in the early 80s (not UK) - mine is on the right arm, holidaylady!

DD (9) had it before she left the hospital when she was born, apparently because the area we lived in was an high immigration area (SE England). She didn’t have a scab and I always worry if it worked or not.

Had the skin test at school in the 60s, came up immune (a relative had suffered from TB so I'd evidently been exposed to it.)

A dd who was born in Abu Dhabi was vaccinated at a few days old - routine since TB endemic there, or was.
Seemed v sensible to me.

I'm nearly 30, never had it. My parents don't recall why either. But they both had theirs.

I had it in year 9, left school in 2009.

I had it when traveling to s third world country. DC got it at birth because one of their grandparents lives part time in a third world country.

I was given the BCG in the mid 80s despite a very positive skin test - it came up as a huge lump with 2 weeping heads instead of 6 small ones so the nurse did it anyway. I had an awful reaction and was under the GP for a swollen, weeping arm for over 6 months.

When I was 20 I was in the US and had to have it all checked out for the medical insurance. A chest X-Ray showed I'd had active TB at some point and the skin test came up not because I was immune to TH but because I had the infection walled up in my body. I was on super strength antibiotics for 6 months to clear it.

My DS had the BCG at 5 days old because I'd had TB and there's no way of telling if the infection has completely cleared as I will always react very badly to the skin test now. His arm took a long time to heal up but was fine by the time he was 2.

I had the vaccine at school, I'm 50.

I found out when DD was born (early 200s) that our local authority wasn't offering the vaccine as routine any more, just to those deemed at risk. Neither of my DCs have had it, but we'll look into this should they be planning to go to a country with high levels of TB.

I had it at school aged 12 - and then again on my 21st birthday! The second one was needed for a US visa for my postgrad studies. As a result I developed a numb left arm whilst taking (and therefore failing) my driving test the same day, and in due course a huge and revolting abscess.

Good times

No, I didn’t as I had TB as a child.

Dh has he has a scar on his arm.

I’m in my 50s. Had it as a baby, because we lived in an area with high TB rates. Then had the test at school and didn’t react so had it again. Twin scars.