To ask if you decided not to vaccinate your children

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Do you regret it? Did they catch any of the diseases that they could have been vaccinated for and what was the outcome?

And anyone who did get their children vaccinated - did they catch any of the diseases anyway? And do you regret vaccinating for any reason?

This isn't intended to start a debate for or against vaccination generally as that's been done many times, I'm more just interested in your personal experiences if you'd be willing to share them. Thank you.

I know I've read it, I can only give my honest thoughts. If I could go back to the pregnancy I'd have it done.

I'm also very interested to pay privately for the meningitis vaccine but in personal life no one has it done and no one thinks it's ne essay. Happy for people to come and convince me!

I do all vaccinations except flu. The efficacy of the flu vaccine is variable.
For any new vaccine I tend to wait a couple of years in case of any issues from pharmacovigilence reporting and then go ahead.
Vaccines are great and have been very useful.

"Not vaccinating doesn't necessarily mean you will contract the disease you haven't vaccinated against."

To add to this - being vaccinated doesn't necessarily mean you won't contract the illnesses either.

Ps my not vaccinated through pregnancy son hasn't had whooping cough, I just felt bad when he was little if he coughed. In fact, he probably was vaccinated against it when he was a baby wasn't he? It's part of the childhood ims programme right? But I still felt dreadful those early weeks and regret my decision.

Mayhem - should have had it at two months = do you have his book?

I found out I wasn't immune to measles despite being vaccinated op. Routine testing while pregnant showed it up. I'm really pleased that while it didn't work for me it has mostly worked and I wasn't at risk (because others were vaccinated) and you rarely see it.

There is a risk of death from vaccinations. As you are always told by the health care provider when you go and have your vaccinations

Also in todays news: water found to be wet. What's your fucking point?

"Not vaccinating doesn't necessarily mean you will contract the disease you haven't vaccinated against

Thanks Captain Obvious, any more pearls of wisdom for us?

Yep book confirms it phew.

Now I've never given them the flu vaccine either and still undecided on meningitis private vaccines - come on pro vaccine lot convince me!

There is a risk of death from vaccinations. As you are always told by the health care provider when you go and have your vaccinations

And a higher risk from not vaccinating in a community that doesn't vaccinate. People can afford to take the selfish risk to not vaccinate because other people do vaccinate. The more of you there are the more likely these diseases are to come back

Most children don't need the flu vaccine. One of mine gets it as they have a condition that makes even simple illnesses much more serious.

I would get the meningitis ones if your area doesn't offer them and you can afford it.

" The more of you there are the more likely these diseases are to come back"

Sorry, can you just clarify? The more of me? Is that what you meant?

"meningitis private vaccines"

ACWY or B?

NHS reccomends Flu Vaccine (nasal spray)

"The flu vaccine is routinely given on the NHS as an annual nasal spray to:
children aged two, three and four years old plus children in school years one, two and three.
children aged two to 17 years at a particular risk of flu"

So depends on whether you want to listen to that advice, or woman on the internet saying "most children don't need flu vaccine". Flu can kill, you know?

Andtake Weird you would say "children don't need flu vaccine" when it's reccommended by the NHS after all you've been saying...

Apologies.

Andtake Weird you would say " most children don't need flu vaccine" when it's reccommended by the NHS after all you've been saying...

I didn't say that, please pay attention. If you want to quote don't miss off the words that matter. Neither am I under the jurisdiction of the NHS, so why would that matter to me?

And "the chance of dying or being injured from vaccinating is much smaller than the chance of dying or being injured from not vaccinating."

It was in response to this. Depending on the disease, when you factor in the unlikelihood of actually contracting it and suffering an ill effect, the math doesn't always add up.

I'm pro vaccination but don't give DD the flu vaccine.

See my correction - and see my first quote.

BUT, I am really interested - why are you now happily giving out information that contradicts the NHS guidance on vaccinations after all you've said? Surely your best bet would have to been to quickly copy the correct information.

What on earth makes you think the NHS automatically has the correct information? How ethnocentric and arrogant you are.

And what makes you think you do?

Do you, or do you not support the NHS vaccination schedule and recommendations?

"AndTakeYourHorseWithYou Thu 29-Jun-17 20:42:08
Funny that we can't rely on herd immunity because so many dimwits won't vaccinate because of shit they heard online? "

Or have you changed your stance in the last ten posts...

Do you, or do you not support the NHS vaccination schedule and recommendations

why would I be interested in specifically NHS recommendations?
Not everyone here is from the UK you know.

I have 2 children - DS is 5 and DD is 2.

DS has had all vaccinations BUT he was in that 10% who get the measles rash after their MMR. He was extremely poorly and we were on the brink of taking him to A&E. My GP diagnosed the 'rash' and said 10% of children will react in that way with the MMR. We were cautious about the second one but there was never any chance of him NOT getting it. Luckily he had no reaction to it.

DD has also had all her vaccinations. Sadly she was 2 months, too old to have the Meningitis B and unfortunately I don't have the money to vaccinate them both so I am crossing my fingers!

I do not regret having them. I also believe that anti-vaxxers not getting the diseases is down to herd immunity; majority of people are vaccinated and therefore there isn't the 'non vaxxers' to spread the diseases.

I knew a lady in a different country who chose not to vax her children. She was forever self diagnosing them with this and that allergy and making them special broths due to their sensitive gut etc, etc. She was never supported by her doctors etc and going from her description of what her children were like, they were no different to many other kids and I came to the conclusion that she was just utterly bonkers!

Another friend's child was born towards the end of the MMR scandal (I think - 2000?) and chose to have her child immunised but using the separate innoculations. It cost her an absolute fortune (or rather her parents!).

I know of some parents refusing to allow their daughters to have the HPV vaccine (have I got that right? the one that protects against cervical cancer) because 1) news stories in the DM frighten them that their girls will get sick and 2) their daughter won't be promiscuous.

"why would I be interested in specifically NHS recommendations?
Not everyone here is from the UK you know."

You may not be; but the poster you are sharing your "knowledge" with most likely is. The advice here is to vaccinate children as per the NHS guidelines. Perhaps don't share advice if you are from another country which most likely has a different vaccination schedule without a warning in future?

Each country does have different requirements for vaccinations based on the illnesses seen in that country.