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Children of the 70s, did you have whooping cough vaccine. Do you still have your records h

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IamSlave · 10/05/2024 22:37

Just that really dh had whooping cough as a child.

I don't know if I had the vaccine but I'm assuming dh didn't?

I think older dc just had it (still had cough now doc completely dismissed possibility of it but all other places saying symptoms match.)
Younger dc obviously exposed and had a cough but not as bad

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ineedtostopbeingdramaticfirst · 11/05/2024 06:44

Just went on patient access apparently not all medical records are on there. Mine aren't.

LittleBearPad · 11/05/2024 06:46

I had it as a child but also had it twice in the last 10 years when pregnant. Handy as one of the medical team at DC’s was diagnosed with it shortly after.

CleftChin · 11/05/2024 06:48

Late 70s, I had it (I don't have records, mum might, I expect the surgery has got rid of them though). I had a booster DTaP when pregnant with my youngest too, so since I understand immunity wains, I should hopefully be find still.

My kids have both had the DTaP too - I think more than once but I'd have to dig out their books to see.

No way I want to get whooping cough if I can avoid it (although I also think that the pertussis vaccine is one of the less effective ones unfortunately)

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TroysMammy · 11/05/2024 06:49

Yes I have had all my vaccinations and I still have my vaccination card showing all vaccinations I've had for the last 56 years. I've added vaccination info to it over the years.

cariadlet · 11/05/2024 06:50

I was born in 66.

When dd was little, I thought carefully about giving her the MMR because it was around the time of the scare and Wakefield hadn't yet been exposed as a charlatan.

In the end, I decided to have her vaccinated.

My Mum said that she'd gone through the same thing when I was little. She had debated whether to give me the whooping cough vaccine because there had been a scare about it but had also ended up getting me vaccinated.

CormorantStrikesBack · 11/05/2024 06:50

I was born in 76 and should have had the vaccine but my mum was an anti vaxxer (just for whooping cough, she thought it might give me epilepsy).

I got whooping cough twice, was very ill the first time and I remember the dr saying i should have had a vaccine.

YeahComeOnThen · 11/05/2024 06:51

nocoolnamesleft · 10/05/2024 22:57

My parents were thankfully very pro vaccine. I had the whooping cough vaccine in the early seventies, and then still showed immunity when checked about 15 years ago.

@nocoolnamesleft

How on Earth did you manage to get that checked?

Ambergrease · 11/05/2024 07:20

SnapdragonToadflax · 11/05/2024 06:41

I was born in 81, and I didn't have it because I had eczema and asthma and it was believed to be contraindicated at the time.

My mum's the furthest you could get from an anti-vaxxer, this was on the GP's advice.

I had whooping cough in the early 90s, it was shit.

Same here - very pro vax mum, but in 1978 her GP advised against it for a child with bad eczema and asthma.

MargaretThursday · 11/05/2024 07:32

I did, but I believe whooping cough vaccine tends to wear off by early 20s anyway.
Dsis caught it at that age despite having the vaccine and that's what she was told.

AlanBrendaCelia · 11/05/2024 07:33

My MIL is in her eighties and has just been diagnosed with whooping cough. She remembers being vaccinated when she was pregnant 60+ years ago.

Chitterchatterchoo · 11/05/2024 07:41

My mum is very pro vaccine but like others as I had eczema it was contra indicated at the time so didn’t get it.

asbigasablueberry · 11/05/2024 07:41

Geris · 10/05/2024 22:52

I read today it wears off after about ten years.

Why don't we vaccinate adults now? Especially the dads of newborns?

I'm pregnant and the midwife was encouraging me to get the WC vaccine with the idea that it'll pass to baby in utero.

Then baby is vaccinated in the first few months I believe.

Tyjaro75 · 11/05/2024 07:42

You get the whooping cough vaccine if you are pregnant.

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IamSlave · 11/05/2024 07:44

Can we get vaccinated now?

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BigDahliaFan · 11/05/2024 07:55

I was born in 68 and had whooping cough when I was 10, off school for ages, it was horrible. I imagine I was vaccinated as mum had no truck with people not getting vaccinated but maybe not, no records.

jay55 · 11/05/2024 08:42

No, my sister had a bad reaction to the vaccine so I wasn't given it.

Didn't ever contract whooping cough.

Geris · 11/05/2024 08:47

asbigasablueberry · 11/05/2024 07:41

I'm pregnant and the midwife was encouraging me to get the WC vaccine with the idea that it'll pass to baby in utero.

Then baby is vaccinated in the first few months I believe.

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Yes, it’s so important for pregnant women to get it.

I meant, why don’t we then vaccinate other adults too? Especially the dads of newborns? Does anyone know?!

Ginmonkeyagain · 11/05/2024 08:59

Born 1978, it was the only jab I didn't get. Apparently my mum was advised not to get us jabbed because of a history of childhood epilepsy in my dad's family.

I assume that is related to the brain damage scare.

My mum was a vetinary nurse and got us vaccinated for everything else so not likely to have been drawn in to unsubstantiated vaccine panics. She's dead now so can't ask her.

TubeScreamer · 11/05/2024 09:09

Yes

born 1972 and given it in 3 doses over 1972-3

MargotMoon · 11/05/2024 09:11

Needmorelego · 10/05/2024 23:14

@MargotMoon I had the measles vax because my sister had measles and was very poorly with it so my mum was determined I would have that.
Was mumps vax standard then?
No idea if I am vaxed against it.

Actually I've no idea! Maybe there wasn't one for that, But if there was she would rather have let me catch mumps instead 😬

StMarieforme · 11/05/2024 09:16

NotJohnMajor · 10/05/2024 22:48

No, not vaccinated and had whooping cough in the winter of 1983. My mum would certainly have had me vaccinated with anything on offer as she was that type, so I assume I was never offered it.

I had the whooping cough vaccine as a baby, and I was born in 1962, so it was definitely being offered in some parts of the country.

obeseandfedup · 11/05/2024 09:18

We have all had in our house and i was vaccinated with each pregnancy and my children in vaccinations and all still got it

Disasterclass · 11/05/2024 09:21

My older brother (born early 70s) didn't have the vaccine due to the scare but went on to get whooping cough and was very ill. As a consequence they made sure I had the vaccine even though there was still a lot of controversy when I was born mid 70s.

I remember having mumps and measles as a child - I don't think there was a vaccine against measles then? Although I remember having the rubella vaccine as a teenager (given just to girls because of the risk to unborn babies)

EBearhug · 11/05/2024 09:40

MMR was introduced in 1988. I don't think there was a single mumps vaccination before then. (Though I may be wrong, as it seems odd not yo have a single job before thry brought in joint ones.) Anyway, it's why I've never been vaccinated against mumps, as I was too old when MMR came out. But I also don't remember anyone having mumps when I was a child - measles, German measles, whooping cough, loads of chicken pox, but no mumps. It could just be I didn't know.

Mrsjayy · 11/05/2024 09:51

Yes I've had mine, I Imagine you have had it unless you didn't have the other vaccinations because you got the as boosters for school.