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To wonder why I was not immunized against mumps in the 80 s?

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Pitmountainpony · 13/04/2013 05:13

That is it really......I now find that I need to have it for visa purposes and as I am breast feeding I cannot have it.
How come they started doing it with the mmr but anyone before that will not have had it? seems inconsistent. Either it is good for us all to be immunized or there is no need surely?

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prettypleasewithsugarontop · 13/04/2013 19:42

I havent been vaccinated either...keep meaning to!

VodkaJelly · 13/04/2013 19:44

Another 70's child here, I had mumps and measles twice. Definately no vaccines back then.

BlackeyedSusan · 13/04/2013 19:50

mumps is horrible. stiff as a board, mum held me one end, grandmother the other and held me over a bucket to wee. it ws the days of children's aspirin too.

I also had measles/german measles. and chicken pox, twice. there was a child in my school that wore callipers as they had had polio.

born late 60's

ElectricalBanana · 13/04/2013 19:51

Born in 68, had mumps, whooping cough german and normal measels....bloody awful diseases. Was very very poorly with whopping cough and was in hospital on O2.

DD1 born in 1987 and got mumps when she was 20 months old.....poor little sod.

peggyblackett · 13/04/2013 19:54

I had mumps in 1985 (at 10), followed by viral meningitis as a complication. I was very ill. My parents are both docs and are totally pro -vaccination, so I'm surprised that if a mumps vaccine existed I wouldn't have had it.

bumbleymummy · 13/04/2013 19:55

DSis and I were born early eighties and had everything. No problems with any of them - measles, rubella, WC, mumps.

bruffin · 13/04/2013 20:05

The measles vax was introduced in 68 and i remember queuing up for it at school for it. Must have been when i was 8 or 9 so 70/71 but told i couldn't have it because my sister had febrile convulsions. I caught measles when i was 9. I didn't have the rubella vax because i caught it from my mum a few weeks before the vax was due.
My poor little sis got mumps and rubella with in week of each other.

Wincher · 13/04/2013 20:31

I was born in 1980 and had mumps and German measles as a child. I remember mumps being horrible but German measles/rubella was fine, I got a week of school but felt ok!

I had the rubella vaccination at age 11 and then the mmr when it came in when I was about 13. So I should blooming well be immune now!

bumbleymummy · 13/04/2013 20:33

Why were people who had rubella still given the vaccine? Guess it was just easier to jab everyone!

memphis83 · 13/04/2013 20:42

My sister was born in 1973 and there was a scare with immunisations that year resulting in my dad refusing to have any further children immunised.
I got whooping cough at 12 and it was awful. I now have a blood disorder unrelated to this and if I catch measles, umps or pox it would be horrific as even a cold knocks me more than most people but have never been offered any immunisations as an adult. Think I need to look further into it.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 13/04/2013 20:49

I wonder why it was called German measles?

I didn't have the measles, mumps or rubella jabs. I think I had measles, remember being very poorly and the curtains having to stay drawn. I did have rubella. Didn't have symptomatic mumps.

Karoleann · 13/04/2013 20:56

I wasn't given mmr as they didn't give it to children who had an egg allergy or ezcema (in case they had an egg allergy). I was born inn1975.
I'm immune to all as have had them all except rubella as I ad the vaccination for that at 12ish.

Groovee · 13/04/2013 21:07

I was never immunised and caught measles and mumps and remember being very poorly.

In 1995 our school year were given the MMR. I took it as I was going to work with children. I had the rubella vaccination in 1990.

bumbleymummy · 13/04/2013 21:08

Groovee - why did you have the MMR if you'd already had mumps and measles and been vaccinated against rubella?

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Pitmountainpony · 13/04/2013 21:15

Thanks everyone.
Infamouspoo- good to know.Hopefully my blood will come back showing immunity.
Yeah can you believe he checked his i phone- maybe the green book is on there too or maybe they use something else here in the US.

Good to know that is i have to have it I can question the doctor on this 3 months rule he told me about.

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bonzo77 · 13/04/2013 21:15

Born 1977. Not had measles or mumps. Possibly rubella but had vaccine in about 1989. I have my old red book so will dig it out and see what it says.

weebarra · 13/04/2013 21:17

My brother (born 84) and sister (82) had mumps, one easter holidays and I didn't catch it - or it was asymptomatic. Mum says I've had the measles vac and def had rubella at school. Dad's a GP so imagine I would have had everything!

foreverondiet · 13/04/2013 21:18

I had mumps as child - had measles and rubella injections but don't think there was a mumps vaccine then. My dad is a gp so I def had all the jabs on offer - born 1974 pretty sure sane for my sisters born 1976 and 1979. So likely that no one gas been unreasonable even if its annoying. Get a blood test done to see if immune.

gindrinker · 13/04/2013 21:27

Born 1983 had mumps aged about 3ish can remember going to the doctor.
I assume I wasn't vaccinated?

mummysmellsofsick · 13/04/2013 21:30

I was born in the 70s and had all three diseases. Measles was the worst but no long term effects except hopefully long term immunity Grin

YoniRaver · 13/04/2013 21:34

IIRC only boys had mumps vaccine and girls had Rubella, prior to MMR being introduced around 1987

TheBuskersDog · 13/04/2013 23:25

Yes bumbleymummy I am perfectly aware that Rubella and German Measles are the same thing. What I meant was we never talked about anybody having Rubella it was only ever called German Measles, and practically everybody got it at some time, it was just part of childhood.

dayshiftdoris · 13/04/2013 23:48

Born 1979

I had the MMR on a catch up program aged 5 BUT lots of parents didnt trust the MMR and the uptake for the catch up programme wasn't great.

The only reason I had it (my mum said I was virtually the only child in my class to go) was because I was unable to have the Whooping Cough Vaccine as my gran was epileptic and there was a higher risk of epilepsy in those with family history so I was allowed it... And I caught Whooping Cough... I was very poorly but minimal time in hospital, unlike the boy I got it off who nearly dies and had long standing problems afterwards...

Anyway my parents figured that the diseases were riskier than the vaccines and went out of their way to ensure I was vaccinated.

but it might explain why you were - double check with the local hospital pharmacy if you can have it when BF... you might be able to, depends on the vaccine.

dayshiftdoris · 13/04/2013 23:50

Sorry have issues with typing tonight

And not a drop of Wine in sight

Pandemoniaa · 14/04/2013 01:33

DS1 & 2 - born in 1981 and 1982 respectively - were vaccinated against measles.

There wasn't a mumps vaccination available and by the time MMR was introduced both boys had already had mumps and rubella. So although ds2 was offered the MMR as a catch-up at 5 there was absolutely no point since he'd already had 2 of the diseases it would have vaccinated him against.

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