London parents - will you be giving your kids under 10 the polio booster?

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I just got a text with details of the polio booster they are offering
Dependent on age it will be a 6 in 1 or 3 in 1/ 4 in 1 jab with the other childhood vaccines included (eg Diphtheria, Tetanus, Whooping cough etc)

IABU to think my kid is fully vaccinated so why bother?

YABU = I will give my kids the booster
YANBU = I won't

Why only kids up to 10? Does anyone know the reasoning behind the 10 year old cut-off?

Your point wasn't minor and could have cost a child's health.

You clearly don't know children who have died, in my case, or had life changing complications, in my DP's case, from lack of routine child vaccinations as if you did you wouldn't have made it.

Honestly @RedWingBoots ,it feels like you haven't read or understood my posts at all.

But that's ok.

I can imagine it's really hard having to witness death and disease in the way that you have. I'm sorry to hear that, it's awful.

Every medical intervention carries a risk/benefit price tag, which is not balanced in the same way for everyone. E.g. My DP's uncle died in childhood from a routine vaccine. My friend's close family member did as well.

It is part of my job as a mother to decide what risks I will expose my children to and which ones I won't. I came on this thread (amongst others) to try and better understand the risks because it wasn't clear from the NHS itself. Maybe I should have kept my political views to myself. That said I really think our system is broken and it's not going to change if people don't think and debate issues properly.

I was upset to be given abuse for that TBH but hey ho.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/vaccination-strategy-for-ongoing-polio-incident-jcvi-statement/joint-committee-on-vaccination-and-immunisation-statement-on-vaccination-strategy-for-the-ongoing-polio-incident
"Children under 10 years of age are likely to be the focus of transmission because of lower levels of personal hygiene, and are likely to have lower levels of polio antibodies"