To ask if you're NOT vaccinating against Meningitis B what are your reasons?

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Non judgey.

Ours is simply cost - we have twins and can't afford it .

I think there were some recent, well-publicised cases of toddlers who contracted Men B and subsequent sepsis, and that raised awareness of the disease.

Little Faye was all over the papers, that certainly raised awareness that meningitis kills and that there is vaccine available

Yes that's the one I was thinking of Ellie

Watching my 6 month old fall unconscious as the rash spread in front of my eyes was truly teffifying, I still thank god that I trusted my instincts and will always be grateful to the GP who called the ambulance.
Yes it's rare but as far as I'm concerned every child should be given it.

Can I ask is this for older children?? Mine was given but she is 15 months I thought I was routine

My DS was lucky to have his included in his routine vaccines, but we'd have paid if not. I know a little girl who died at 4weeks old of it.

I also know 1 person with severe, life changing disabilities due to a vaccine reaction causing severe brain damage. However I know several people with post-polio disease, deafness due to measles and limb loss from meningitis. It's a no brainer for me!

Benedikte, teenagers get offered a different meningitis vaccine on the NHS (ACWY) against the most common types in their age group.

We didn't get menB because our children aren't in the at-risk age groups. Incidence has been decreasing over the last few years anyway so technically our children are less at risk now than they were a few years ago when there was no vaccine.

There was a big rise in cases of MenB in 2013. afaik, no-one really knows why this happened, but it did.

"The Men B vaccine was added to the NHS childhood immunisation programme in September 2015, but controversially, is only offered to babies born on or after 1 May 2015 meaning that thousands of children in the UK are not protected from this life-threatening disease".

Quoted from Meningitis Now news article here:

MenB vaccine info

how many types of men are there?

they get covered for one dont they in the mmr?

We are getting ours done next week 90 quid boots.

men b....what other types are there?

I am a consultant microbiologist. My kids have had the Men B vaccine privately, because meningococcal infection scares the living shit out of me.

Anti-vaxxers really really boil my piss.

Bite, do you have a source for that? The chart in the green book doesn't show a spike in 2013 here

Interesting that the MenC vaccine given at 3 months is going to be phased out. I know it was mentioned in the JCVI discussions about introducing the MenB vaccine but I hadn't heard that it was definitely happening.

August - MMR is measles, mumps, rubella - not meningitis. There is currently a MenC vaccine given at 3 months and another at around around 12 months.

I am so lucky as we got it in first day of roll out.
For those that don't believe in vaccinations do you take paracetamol if you have a headache etc. To think you are denying a child of a life saving aid is scary.

thanks bumble and are there any other types of it?

One of my children has already had a stint in ICU complete with cardiac arrest, this was the direct result of an allergic reaction to a vaccine.

I firmly believe in the efficacy of vaccinations, but the risk for my dc is too high.

Not having it for many reasons which are mainly covered in this document:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/meningococcal-b-vaccine-jcvi-position-statement

Occurrence of men b had halved in the 10 years prior to this vaccine being introduced.
There haven't yet been any studies large enough to assess adverse reactions.

I suffered a severe adverse reaction to a childhood vaccination and my parents were told I was dying. Thankfully I'm still here..but the notion of vaccines being "100% safe" is ridiculous. The JCVI even say in that document that the men b vaccination hadn't been fully tested at the time it was being considered for roll out.
Phone the manufacturers and ask them how the vaccine has been tested so far.

Do a bit of research and weigh up the pros and cons and then make your own decision.

I'm not an anti-vax campaigner, but some of the pro-vax comments here are a bit naive to be honest.

Remember there are several sorts of anti vaxxers. There are the obviously barking mad conspiracy theory types that are easy to spot, but there are also the voice of sweet reason "just asking" insidious ones. Both types are present on this thread. Be wary.

Quite a few August - the link I gave up thread to the Green Paper has info on the current Men vaccines available and their schedule. Men W cases have been increasing in recent years. I think the hope is that by vaccinating teenagers it will reduce its circulation.

Just gonna leave this here.

"here..but the notion of vaccines being "100% safe" is ridiculous"

Of course it is. That 's why nobody ever says that it isn't

Nothing that works is 100% safe.

Just don't ever be part of the small percentage for whom it isn't safe.

It's an endless fucking nightmare.

I don't think anyone on this thread has said that vaccines are 100% safe You do your research and make your decision.

My baby has had his vaccine as part of the routine ones. My 2 year old missed out. I'm still trying to decide whether I can afford to have her vaccinated too.

Cost. Here (Germany) it would be 400 euro per child so 1200 euro
How much in the UK?