To ask if YOU having MMR?

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Ok. I have vaccinated my dc according to schedule. I got an email at work today from occupational health people (not healthcare or similar) saying that if you a) born after 1972 b) didn't have 2 doses MMR and c) didn't have confirmed case measles then should have MMR now! I asked my Dad (retired gp) and he said I had one measles jab as child, didn't have mmr (although my younger brother did) - he said v v likely I was immune. However he thought slight risk of not being immune.

I am sure a lot of you fall into the category above (most people born between 1972 and 1980) - so who is having.

I don't work with children or in healthcare - I work in an office.

I was born pre 1972 (vintage !) as were my sibs but am fairly sure we didn't all have all of these illnesses as children. Trouble is I think my Mum has forgotten which of us had which one, and which of us have had measles. Maybe I could have it when my DC's have their "catch-up" one - I'll see what the nurse suggests.

I was born in 1980, my mum says that Ihad 1 measles jag as a baby - am I at risk?

I keep meaning to ask my mum what vaccs I had - I was born in 1974 and remember having mumps and whooping cough (the diseases) but not measles. I had the rubella and BCG jabs at secondary school.

My mum said I had single vaccine in 85. But still got measles aged 3. I kindly gave it my dad and put him in hospital. I dont see why i beed it but There's no outbreak where I am.

DD was born in 1993, and according to her red book, she only had one lot of MMR (as that was all that was offered at that point). Presumably she should be checking with her GP if she needs another one (student, not a million miles away from Wales)?

I am so old that I had both mumps and measles as a child. Measles is horrid and mumps wasn't exactly a joy either! Beware!

I was one of the last people in the UK to get the smallpox vaccine (born 1970) - my mum was quite forceful with the GP about vaccination, and if it was available, I had it . Don't have a scar though, as he did it in the crease of my armpit at the back. Also managed not to scar from the BCG either.

I lived in Canada as a small child and had the MMR.

Nope I've had all three illnesses already.

I was born in 1972, but was never vaccinated. I suffered from regular bouts of Tonsillitis as a child, and according to my Mum I was always ill when she got called for the vax appointment, and then as I got older they stopped calling me for the jab. I never caught it (don't remember any of my friends having it either), so I'm definitely still at risk.

I will have the MMR if offered, despite having had Rubella (and the corrresponding vax at around 11 years old) and Mumps. My father is partially deaf as a result of Measles in childhood, so I live with a reminder of the fact that it is not "just another mild illness".

I've had measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox.
The joy of being a child in the early 60s.

I was born 1986 and had some form of measles jab in primary school(not sure if single or mmr) but when I had DS a few years ago they gave me the mmr after the birth...don't know why I had to have it them was too tired to care tbh

my smallpox vax scar is about the size of a (new) 5p and at the top of my arm, my bcg scar is a pathetic little dot further down the arm. When I think how dc's cried at the tiny jabs they've had (mmr included) I wonder what sort of fuss I would have made as a baby over the smallpox one.

& back on thread..I had measles as a child but if I wasn't immune would consider having the jab. Because people like me had the smallpox vax, you guys don't have to.

I had the smallpox jab every three years as a forces child, and the BCG.
No scarring or marks of any sort.

Had the smallpox jab too and I think typhoid? And later hep A? But I was born in London in 63 so not sure of I had the measles vac. Fortunately I still have my vaccination record from nearly 50 years ago!

I would have been in the cohort that had one rather than two measles jabs so might not be immune. No outbreak in my town yet, thankfully, as I have a three month old who is too young for the MMR. If there were cases near me, I'd consider having it to ensure my immunity and stop me getting it and passing it to DD but I'm breastfeeding and was just reading something about rubella and breast milk so would need to do more research to be confident about having it.

every 3 yrs? you must be very immune

Well the army reserved the right to post dad with a minimum of a fortnight's notice, so all our jabs were kept up to date. Good thing Yellow Fever lasted for 10 years.

I was too young to remember the smallpox vaccine but it was described to me as a set of scratches on the skin which is why it scarred so badly.

Yes, it was a scratch each time, but perhaps army doctors had more practise?

how about this..

Recent studies suggest the smallpox vaccine provides some level of defense against HIV. Both the smallpox vaccine and HIV exploit a receptor called CCR5, which is expressed on the surface of white blood cells. Researchers theorize that one factor in the sudden spread of HIV in the early 1980s was the result of eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s, and the subsequent and abrupt decline in smallpox vaccinations worldwide. The smallpox vaccine appeared to cut HIV replication five-fold.[28 ] and now I will stop derailing the thread..

OK, I was born in 1970 (another dinosaur) and have just dug out my 'immunisation and weight record card' which my mother was given by her health visitor or midwife or local nurse or whoever.

This is the schedule of immunisations a child would have been expected to receive in 1970:

5-6 months: Diptheria/Tetanus/Pertussis (whooping cough). Oral polio
7-8 months: repeat of above
12-14 months: repeat of above
18 months: Measles
22 months: Smallpox
School entry: Dip/Tet oral polio
Over 12 years: BCG vaccination (that's the TB one isn't it?)

Now although my mum did get me immunised against everything that was recommended, it could easily be the case that the recommendations were changed between when this card was printed and when I was actually due to have them. For instance there's no mention of Rubella, but I know that all girls had them in school at around 13 (1983 or so). And was Smallpox really still being given in 1972?

So according to this schedule, I had a single Measles vac but no booster. There was a major Measles/Mumps/German Measles outbreak in South Wales (where I grew up) in the late 1970s and most kids caught one or the other - I was one of the few who didn't appear to go down with any of them. At the time I thought it must have been because I was immune after the vacs, now looking at this card it's clear that it was more a matter of luck, since I had no mumps or rubella protection at the time.

No, I won't be having it. When ds2 was 10mo he was diagnosed with measles. we did the swabs and one came back positive, the others not.

So either he had it or else I did - they said it was inconclusive and could be just maternal antibodies.

I was dx with it twice, when I was 9 and 10 - don't know if either was the real thing. But either he's had it or I have! And that means if he did have it, I must be immune (because I didn't catch it from him) and if it was antibodies then they were mine.

ds1 had the MMR
ds3 is too little (3mo)

1973 btw - sister had vacc, 1971, but I didn't