to consider single vaccinations over the MMR when mumps is not available?

[MsKalo]

I had my ds vacinated with single jabs - at the time he had the jabs, all three, measles, mumps and rubella were available. Now it is the time to vaccinate my dd and mumps vaccine is not available and I am unsure how to proceed as I really do not like the thought of the MMR and that big hit of all 3 in one...

Anyone had bad experiences with MMR? Any doctors in the house willing to give an unbiased (ie: not all pro MMR!)opinion?

We may go ahead with the measles and rubella and the chicken pox as there is not mumps vac available or should I just think about the MMR

DECISIONS! AGHHH!

Appletrees - no, it has never been acknowledged as vaccine damage. And we didn't push it because we have enough stress in our life and don't need to borow more.

But this is what will always annoy me. The fact that they are not trying to work out what went wrong and why. For example, we flew the day before his vaccine. Did that contribute?

If they don't acknowledge it, then they can't use it as a statistical example to generalise from.... they will never learn how to stop more kids going through what my son has.

...and this IS the problem IndigoBell. Thankfully the only child I know who is vaccine damaged (as far as I know) is my frind's DD. Even then the evidence isn't clear cut and the doctors say her encephalitis was NOT due to MMR. She thinks it was however and I'd like to see much more discussion about these cases. I can accept that the risk of encephalitis is statistically far more likey following actual measles than following the MMR. That is little comfort to my friend though who is struggling to get the powers that be to take her seriously and properly investigate whether her daughter's problems are down to the MMR or not. It is SO important because if her prolems are NOT down to the MMR it would give my friend so much peace of mind rather than constantly blaming herself.

Thankfully I have never met anyone as a HV who has experienced the same problems and hope I never will.

I and lots of people of my generation all got mumps because we weren't vaccinated against it at all. It was not routine in the late 70s/early 80s. The MMR was routinely offered from a later date.

Indigo: I'm very sorry about your situation. I can imagine how frustrating it is, very well. I am cross on your behalf that there are people you've never met who think they know, as a fact that vaccines had nothing to do with his conditions -- although they have never seen your son, have never seen his medical notes, have never examined him, did not know until a few days ago that he even existed. But they, somehow, know exactly what the problem isn't.

Precious: "And by the way, whoever said that the onus of being vaccinated should be on women considering pregnancy: Lots of us didn't 'consider' pregnancy before it happened!!"
Lol!! I don't care about when I get pregnant so can you get your kids to take risks for me!!!!!! Ta girls!!!!!

scaryjane DS has bowel problems which were horrendous in the 3 years after his MMR. Even now at 11 years they are still bad.
Of course I dont have a magic ball so can't say whether he would of had more or less autistic traits thn he does if he hadn't had the MMR. I do know however that his body struggled with vaccinations as a small baby, he always had a slight fever and slept so much after them. I put my faith in the 'powers that be' and he had the MMR as I was such a sickly child I wanted my kids to miss out on all that.

Like I said earlier the MMR is safe for almost all the population but not all. If single vaccines were available then the worried parents like me would have their children vaccinated

Vaccinations in childhood SAVE LIVES. It is hugely irresponsible parenting not to vaccinate your children,in my opinion. There is no actual evidence to link MMR with the supposed side effects, but several (large) research projects that suggest its safety.

I think it's hugely irresponsible to give your children so much medicine without really looking into it. Shocking really that so many parents do that.

I cannot see why this issue has to be such a battleground. No-one here is saying they are willing to.leave their child completely unvaccinated, merely that they prefer to opt for single jabs, at their own expense, but there may be a delay in the administration of one of those vaccines due to lack of availability.
Regardless of anything do with artist/wakefields, surely as parents we should have freedom of access to reliable information presenting all angles so we can make an informed decision based on our own personal circumstances.
I find it amazing that no-one seems remotely concerned at the amount of brainwashing that has gone on wrt MMR, even before Wakefield was discredited. My Dd is 6, I was told by my HV at the time that they were 'not allowed' to advise on, or even point us in the direction of information regarding anything other than the MMR. Dr's were being paid bonuses based on take up of the triple jab, and the govt has consistently refused to do any of it's own research on the subject (not to mention the number of politicians who have refused to say how their kids have been vaccinated).
This kind of institutionalized whitewash in the name of saving time & money, whilst refusing to consider any other pov for whatever reason, is what makes parents like MsK suspicious.