Child first MMR vaccine at age 3.5 years old

[MimiDuncan]

Hi All,

did any of you had their child first MMR vaccine at age 3 or more?

if yes how it went? Were there many side effects ?

I wanted to delay my little ones as he was acting very strange after his last sets of vaccines when he was 18 months old.

He had staring spells and was blinking a lot for months and I got a fright 😔

i am honestly very nervous about this MMR.

thank you.

Oh FFS @Parentofeanda PLEASE don't mention autism on a vaccination thread! Has that twat Andrew Wakely not killed off enough people?! The damage he did with his falsified results in the 80s to flog his own vaccine has caused horrific repercussions.

One more time ---- MMR does NOT cause autism!!!

OP vaccinate your child. Do some serious, proper reading of actual research. There is a reason why it is so heavily pushed; the consequences of not vaccinating can be fatal.

Don't know whether this helps, but I had mine as an adult. No side effects.

FFS

Vaccines do not cause autism

Not a single study had managed to correlate the two since that absolute bellend released his falsified fake report.

The only valid reason to delay vaccines is if your GP has advised it.

Measles will kill you given the chances
Mumps will cause infertilitiy.

Vaccinate your children.

If your child's low immune system was serious enough to cause vaccinations to be too risky (compared to contracting the illnesses) your doctor will tell you. Ask them if you are unsure. Very few children cannot receive the standard vaccinations.

There is a serious outbreak of measles at the moment. Most people have little understanding of the seriousness of measles and the long term harm and disabilities it can cause, let alone the mortality risk. The reason people are so unaware is that it was pretty rare in this country for a long time, all thanks the a successful vaccination program.

Unfortunately self serving twats such as Wakefield pushed out a lot of falsified data which scared people away from the life saving MMR, and other vaccines.

Never forget, Wakefield had invested heavily in producing single jabs before he published his study. He made a lot of money from people skipping the MMR.

If your child can receive the vaccine you should give it, to save them suffering horrendous illnesses, which can ultimately prove fatal for some.

Not to mention that herd immunity is required to protect the most vulnerable to diseases in our communities, who are not able to get vaccinated themselves.

Statistically your child is more likely to end up with serious disabilities, illness or even death without the MMR jab than the very small minority of children who suffer more than a mild side effect. Our children are so precious and I was terrified with both my children having jabs - one has multiple severe allergies and the other one is deaf. The worse reaction we got to vaccines was one child got a raised temperature and a bit of a upset stomach but was perfectly fine the next day . Hope it goes well for you too x

This. Op, you are confusing toddler age low immunity (which is the reason the vaccines are given in the first place) with children immunocompromised because of cancer or transplants, ie. children given drugs to lower their immune system As CatHackney states, the advice for adults caring/in contact with immunosuppressed children is to be fully vaccinated to protect them as much as possible.

Is your child immunocompromised?* *

This thread it mental. My brother got measles 6 weeks before his vaccine and now is partially blind. He was in hospital for weeks, nearly died.

I don’t think this is the type of forum that would support not vaccinating or questioning them. I think if you have fear regarding them then research as best you can- not just from NHS and make an informed decision. I know many children who have had and not had and are healthy and good. Equally have heard of some pretty bad side affects- doesn’t have to only be autism.

My grandmother contracted rubella in pregnancy and my uncle was born with a heart defect as a result. He died aged 8 having never left the hospital
My dad had measles as a young child and had a bad bout possibly due to him being born on the edge of life at 1kg in the early 60s. It damaged his eyes and had to have surgery on them. His optician now says he's lucky to have had a very good surgeon as most people in his situation has very little vision left in their 60s.
My daughter had a bad reaction to the menB in the 4 months vaccines and in 8h she had an appointment with the HV, 3GP appointments and then was sent to paeds. When it came to her 1 year vaccines the nurse asked if she had previously had issues with vaccines or any food allergies (she has a lot including egg). We had a referral to the paeds to determine if she could continue having vaccines in the GP practice. The paediatrician wasn't concerned about the egg allergies as it's only very extreme egg allergies that has a problem with the MMR. The paediatrician decided to give her 1 year jabs individually and said of the vaccines given at 1 the one that was absolutely the most important one to have first was the MMR, the others were boosters so she already had some protection and the implications of mumps measles and rubella are much greater than the other illnesses. She gave us the vaccine there and then as she didn't want my daughter to be delayed even a week longer before she got it, she was 15months. She had a fever for about 12h and she was slightly unwell for 24-36h but she started with chicken pox the afternoon after getting the mmr so some of this could have been the chicken pox. On day 7 she had rash that didn't bother her. Once we got to the end of her 1 year jabs we were discharged and she has since had her second MMR and had the same fever for 12h and slightly unwell for 24h and a slight rash after a week. This went after 1 week which is good for her as rashes usually take 6 weeks to go.

One of my friends' who is a paediatric consultant explained to me that people correlate MMR specifically but also other vaccines causing problems leading to a change in their child's behaviour because vaccines are given when children's development including behaviour is changing a lot.

if you are going to take @ganesha advice and 'do some research' then do also make sure you research the implication of a child having any of the diseases the vaccinations are used for, you know - to make it fair

I would focus your research on measles, mumps and rubella.

We know the side effects of these diseases and it has also been proved that there is no link to the MMR and autism.

With the measles outbreak right now you do not want to risk your child, it is an absolute horrible and utterly dangerous illness.

And adding to this, many people have had awful complications from measles, mumps and rubella.

YABVVVVU to have delayed them in the first place.

*Oh God!

can I ask you what age you got your MMR?*

Oh please.

I'm sorry but this is ridiculous.

Have you discovered something from a random anonymous stranger on the internet? Even though you've been to see
a GP and a neurologist ?

Our children's health is so important to us but this is not the way to deal with it.

And if you listen to @ganesha another random on the internet,you are truly doing your child a disservice.

DS2 had his late and already had obvious signs of autism. DS1 had individual vaccinations (as it was mid scare) and still has adhd/autism.

That really makes a lot of sense. It's a shame people in this day and age are still so vaccine ignorant. Sadly that ignorance ruins not just the unvaccinated but also those with weak systems who get exposed to them.

Probably a mommy blogger on YouTube

Yes she has had all the vaccines including MMR. Absolutely no problems or side effects.

@MimiDuncan I thought you could pay for three separate jabs now if you're really concerned? Then baby can still have them earlier, there's a measles outbreak at the moment and there's no way I'd want my children unprotected

That makes more sense. It is the biologic that contraindicates the measles immunisation, not the neutropenia. Biological therapies suppress many different parts of the immune system.

@KidsDr I don't think my biologic is an immune one.. it's Xolair
I'm immunocompromised from the neutropenia though and it's lifelong neutropenia. Complex health!

Research does not mean Google. The average person cannot do any sort of meaningful research into vaccines because they do not have the knowledge base to understand proper peer reviewed studies.

The reasons threads like this piss me off is that people will equate any old thing to vaccines. E.g Had a seizure within 6 months of a vaccine? Has to have been the vaccine, couldn’t possibly be anything else. I bet most of the “do your research” “you are right to be concerned” lot happily take medicine for illnesses. Why are vaccines so demonised?

OP is jumping on any comment with a potential issue. Ask a medical professional OP and if you disagree and decide not to vaccinate, don’t go blaming any one but yourself if your child gets measles. It’s that simple.