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 have had rubella, measles (twice), and mumps (both sides) and have no worries about my immunity.

Apparently people born before 1957 are among the most protected group because of multiple exposure to measles back in the day before a vaccine had been developed.

Born 1980. I caught measles about aged 8, had the single rubella jab aged 12 and then given a single MMR jab aged 15. I don't remember having more than one jab for MMR. I think it must have been new as they started giving it to children much younger in the school after that instead of the rubella one.

There's also kids that didnt have this new schedule of 2 or 3 doses. When my adult children were little it was one dose of MMR. About 2 years after they started school I think the pre-school booster thingy was brought in. So are my kids at university (which is a hotbed of germs n beer) still immune? One reacted very badly to the jab so he doesnt want a vax during his finals but asked if he could have a blood test - many of his course mates are from south Wales.
The GP's seem as lost as we are when I asked

I do recall having the rubella jab at 15. The doctor had to chase me round the room

I've had measles and rubella and been exposed to mumps many times. So no. But adult men should consider mumps vaccine.

I was born in 1976 and had mumps as a child and the rubella vaccine at 12/13. I have just been tested as pregnant and still have antibodies for rubella.

If I lived in a measles area I think I would ask to be vaccinated, but I am in Scotland where mmr rates did not drop nearly as much as elsewhere so an outbreak here is very unlikely as there is probably 'herd immunity' - enough people immunised to stop an outbreak.

I have no idea if I'm immune to measles or mumps. I had a test for rubella when I was pregnant first time round and was immune but think that's as I was vaccinated at high school?
I wish my mum and dad or GP could tell me! No one seems to know! Now pregnant again and worried that I might not be immune to measles given the latest outbreak.

I know I had the single measles vaccination, born 1980, my mum told me, I knew I had Reuben's when I was 10/11, definitely last year of primary, never had mumps though. Had bcg in high school and various other jabs for foreign travel.

My gp is calling tomorrow because ds2 has not had his MMR booster yet, he's 2.4, and we're I'm greater manchester where there have been nigh in 200 cases reported this year. I, also going to ask if dh could get an MMR shot because he doesn't know if he's had one done. I'm going to ask about whether it's worth me getting another one. Better safe than sorry. I'm also at uni so that's prime breeding ground. Lots of kids who probably haven't been vaccinated.

Infamous-your nurse at GPs might know more about blood test for immunity-there definitely is one available-whether they're prepared to let you have one is another matter. You can pay about £30-40 to have one done privately(just google for a local private clinic)

Thanks for the replyWeissbier and sorry for not acknowledging it earlier. :)

I was born in 1976.
I had the double dose of rubella, and I contracted measles as a toddler.

my sister had mumps, but i don't know if that makes me immune (because i didn't catch it) or if it doesn't matter.
I think they worry more about measles, though.

Turns out dh has had no vaccinations because his sister was poorly after her measles vaccination.

I'm right in thinking its a different strain they use now isn't it? He also had all the usual travel injections I did when we went to Sri Lanka with no ill effects. I shall ask the GP for advice tomorrow anyway.

I was born in the US before 1972 and had MMR at least twice.

DH was born in 1977. He had measles, but never mumps or rubella or the vaccine. This was only caught out when our daughter was undergoing chemotherapy.

thanks toldmywrath. Umm, what is a 'private clinic'. What do I look for?

I was born before 1957. I had the diptheria and Polio jab as a baby.
Did not have the Small Pox jab but younger sis did.
Got German measles a few times, but mum thinks it must have been a mild form of measles once as all other kids got it. Don't remember whooping cough or Chicken Pox.

DD born mid 60s had Diptheria, Polio and Whooping Cough jab.
Got Measles at 4 and chicken Pox at 6.

I had a BCG test as a scrape on the back at 6 and again at 14 with the flaming needles in the wrist and was immune both times.
DD was not immune

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Had Mumps at 16, but no other family member caught it from me.

Has anyone had MMR and had side effects as an adult?

I am due to have one tomorow, I am going away and v worried about my small baby.

I was told I had one jab and that I can have MMR>

Born 1976. Had the measles jab and caught measles, had mumps and had the rubella jab at school. Hopefully you can't get measles twice because i remember it being absolutely awful...

i had measles mumps and rubella so have natural immunity.

Fabulous! I was born in 1971 and never had the MMR, so if I had been born the following year I would be "at risk", if I was born the previous year I would be ok, what about 1971?
And, no, I won't be having it now

yes, they should and women planning a pregnancy should be given a blood test to confirm whether they are immune or not, then get vaxed before TTC

(I've just posted this on another thread, but I think it is worth repeating)

Last year when I was 7 months pg with DD I worked briefly with some children at DS4's school and one of the children was confirmed being ill with measles, another suspected.
the time line we worked out meant that I was borderline in danger of having caught it - my mum was adamant I was vaxed as a kid, but blood test showed otherwise!

perhaps it didn't take and she later remembered I may have missed out because I was very ill at the time I should have had it.
we checked it online and when I was 2yrs the policy changed, so it never got done, as it wasn't compulsory anymore! (this was mid-seventies in Hungary).
so yes, bad luck and less info at the time (my mum felt terrible guilyy as well as worried).
if I had know, I would have gotten vaccinated before getting pg with eldest, but there are no routine tests for this!

measles in pg women can cause a late miscarriage or still birth, so I was terrified of loosing my DD and was furious at the thought that if that kid wasn't vaxed by choice I could potentially lose her due to something that could have been so easily avoided!

Thank God I didn't catch it, so all was fine, but those two weeks were just horrendous, I don't wish that on anyone!

I've today had a letter from Occ Health saying I have to have MMR! I am 49 and it says that they can't tell whether I have enough immunity from a recent bloodtest. I was born well before 1972 so I guess they're after us oldies now too! I didn't give my children the triple dose as I thought it was too much for their little systems. We did however pay through the nose for separate vaccinations - feels like its coming back to haunt me!

My mum can't remember helpfully. I have had mumps though so obviously didn't have MMR and I had Rubella jab in high school.
Don't know about measles though, I remember having the polio one on a sugarlump when I was in infant school.