Anyone managed to get single measles vaccine on NHS due to allergies?

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My DD is has a very bad reaction to milk and she is due for her MMR which i understand has lactose in it.

I have found that there is one strain of measles vaccine which is lactose free, so i would rather she had that.

Do you think that is reason enough for the GP to prescribe this instead of MMR?

Has anyone had any luck with being prescribed a single vaccine instead for allergy reasons?

Are you sure MMR has lactose in it? DS is anaphylactic with milk and had no problem, I can't see why they'd put lactose, which is milk sugar, into something that's injected?

I just read the factsheet from the NHS website, if you click on the link for 'MMR Factsheets 1-3' here you will see at the top of page 5, they talk about possible egg allergy but nothing on milk/lactose. And DS has an egg allergy too, he was fine with the MMR like I said.

If there is a allergy risk, I think you'll be offered the opportunity to have the MMR but in hospital in case there is a bad reaction.

Do you know if that single vaccine is licenced for the UK? If not then you certainly won't be able to get it. I think the advice is to have the MMR in hospital just in case - I too know someone with a child who has an egg allergy and they had it in that way and was absolutely fine.

I doubt they would ever sanction single vacs on the NHS as this would set a precedent, which acknowledge even partly that single vacs can be safer in some circumstances.

Priorix MMR does contain Lactose, along with many other dubious ingedients. See Father of Anna's second post at www.jabs.org.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=571 for the vaccination Information sheet (which doctors/HVs are supposed to give you).

Thanks for the replies.

The measles element of my DD's MMR definitely has lactose in it - as i have the ingredients list for it.

I managed to find a single vaccine without lactose. There's no way i'm putting her through the hell of a reaction to it, so
I guess i'll just have to pay

no - we my dc are intolerant to dairy stuff but not allergic
I left mmr til ds1 was 5.6 and intend to do the same for my other two children, he had it under obs in the hospital childrens day ward.

Is your dd allergic to milk or lactose intolerant? They are not the same thing. Milk allergy is when there is an immune response to proteins found in milk whereas lactose intolerance is caused by the body not producing enough of the enzyme lacatase to digest the lactose.

If your dd is allergic to milk protein then having a vaccination containing lactose shouldn't be an issue as she wouldn't be allergic to the lactose.

If she is lactose intolerant, then again it shouldn't really be an issue as the vaccination is injected into the blood stream rather than the digestive tract.

Well if it does indeed contain lactose, I can tell you for sure that it's safe for milk allergic children. DS is extremely allergic/anaphylactic to milk, and had it with no problem.

My ds has egg allergy and was given MMR in hospital and observed afterwards and suffered no reaction at all.

my son has a milk allergy and so before his mmr we were asked to give him some egg to see if he was ok with that, which he was, so he was checked thoroughly but allowed to have the jab and he was fine. Although it's not the lactose protein which my ds is allergic to.

I think the vaccine is grown on eggs (my mum was allergic to eggs and couldn't have many of the vaccinations for that reason)

My DS is also extremely allergic/anaphylactic to milk and eggs and we had no problems. We did have it in hospital during a routine appointment with our allergy consultant just in case.