child born in 2005 and given single vaccines

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with boosters at appropriate times, but missing out on mumps booster due to worldwide unavailability.

Said child is now 14.5 yo.

THIS IS NOT AN MMR DEBATE, I am awake I'm the early hours mulling this over - so until I can ring the doctors surgery for advice, I am asking.....

1. did you opt for singles, but missing the mumps booster?

1. at what stage and age, if at all, have you opted for the MMR as a follow up for your teen.

For the record, I am pro vaccine - and my teen definitely is also.

Why did he have single vaccines? Why can’t you go to his GP and get the MMR booster? I would not want my male child to be at risk of mumps, weird you have to ask.

Not quite sure what you are asking, but ds20 and ds15 had single vaccines when they would have been due MMR - all except rubella booster. They had mumps vaccine.

If your child is male, then I would definitely either get the single mumps vaccine or ask gp surgery if it is possible for MMR.

You can check the mumps antibodies levels. They may be sufficient, in which case you don't need to do anything. If they're absent or at low levels then you can make a decision about whether to give a dose of MMR or not.

My dd born 1998 had single in 2001 and 2002 then mmr in about 2005? And booster for secondary
I had mumps as a child and was fine so wasn’t massively concerned as she’s female BUT was concerned about her passing it to any unvaccinated males (maybe tooyou g etc) as my grandad caught it off me and ended up getting bilateral inguinal hernias

I am 56 and here in the USA the advice is if you were vaccinated for measles between 1963 and 1968 your vaccine may not have been effective. So I called up my childhood pediatrician and they said that I had probably had the ineffective vaccine. I went down to the local pharmacy to get a new measles vaccine and they had no single vaccines in stock but lots of MMR. The pharmacist said that it would be fine to get the MMR even though I had had mumps and rubella vaccines already. So I did. I assume this is probably the case for mumps as well and probably just easiest to get your child the MMR which is regularly stocked everywhere and seems to be the same for children and adults.

Mumps have increased where we are - if he needs another mumps vaccination then I would get him to have one.

I don’t know what I had as a child but I am old enough that I probably had a mixture of single doses and one MMR (rather than 2).

I’ve recently come up as non immune to measles (tested for work as I work in the NHS). I had the first dose of the MMR a few weeks ago and I’m having the 2nd next month.

I would see no reason to wait and I’d book in the get it done immediately. There’s no reason to wait. Young children can have a strong immune reaction to the MMR and feel a bit unwell, but that’s less likely in adults and I would assume teens as well. I had no side effects at all and it was all really straightforward.

I didn't have the mmr. I had measles and Rubella as a child, but never mumps. I was then given the mmr as a teenager with no ill effects.

I would have preferred to give DS single vaccines (don't want to get into reasons but I'm not an anti-vaxxer!) , but because the mumps one wasn't available he had the mmr.

There has been only a low level of mumps in circulation - there are beginning to be outbreaks, and it is possible to have it asymptomatically. I think however the chances of being immune without being known to have had the disease are vanishingly low.

So if he wants to be immunised, then he needs MMR, as there is no alternative.

Do remember the weight of evidence has increased enormously about the safety of the MMR. It was different back in the late 1990s, when that evidence had not been accumulated.