Single one component measle vaccine

[MimiDuncan]

Hi All,

I am wondering if any of you decided to give to their little ones the single one component measle vaccine? ( babyjabs are offering it)

if yes how it turned out?

many thanks,

There have been a few MMR single jabs lately , makes you wonder if they are genuine.

It's not anti vax to acknowledge that vaccines, like any other medicine, can cause side effects and complications in a small proportion of the population.

It is anti vax to suggest that the risk of harm from a vaccine is in any way comparable to to risk of harm from the diseases in question.

It is also a common anti vax standpoint to apply more scrutiny to the MMR than other childhood vaccines, which is solely thanks to that charlatan Wakefield.

It is anti vax to suggest that the risk of harm from a vaccine is in any way comparable to to risk of harm from the diseases in question.

True at a population level but not perhaps an individual one.

Fuck off. You can't be serious. How on earth is he still given the time of day, by anyone.

You cant even get single vaccines for all the components of M, M or R. The only single vaccine is measles as the others are only available as combined vaccines.

And got prosecuted for false advertising by the advertising standards for claiming MMR caused autism and produced some dodgy research as a defence

I really wish that I could fuck off and say I'm making it up. I'm not. He's got a film coming out about it - one of those 'based upon a True Story' piles of shite. Going to make millions out of it.

Chickenpox can be quite dangerous in some children. Our oldest had it at 2 years old and became very unwell and was in hospital for over 2 weeks and off nursery for about 6 weeks until well enough to return. At 8 she still has deep scars all over her body including her face, which aren't a major issue, but she is very conscious of them. So we paid the £100 to get our 2nd vaccinated against chickenpox, as we couldn't bear the thought of another child going through that when so easily prevented. Most first world countries offer the chickenpox vaccination routinely, and the UK will be doing that too.
I work in paediatrics and see many children who are now severely disabled due to not being vaccinated.
As you say, our personal experiences may not be representative of the overall risk, but do affect our choices

Vaccine injury can and does happen - if people want to stagger the immunisation then that should be a perfectly valid choice. I gave both DC the MMR but I don't judge others for looking at something differently.

I find the vaccine threads awful when someone is asking a perfectly valid and acceptable question.

I had mumps as a child and I still remember the pain and how ill I was. It's one of my earliest memories. No way would I want my own children to get it.

Just have the mmr, it’s safe.

It's not a "perfectly valid choice" if single vaccines aren't available.

Vaccine injury risk is increased by having a higher number of injections. So it’s not sound reason for giving more single jabs instead of MMR.

I’m not sure OP but i know when i enquired a few years ago they didn’t do the single jabs.
DD had MMR and the rubella part put her in hospital. My other kids didn’t have MMR and they all got measles (including dd with MMR).

Get the MMR. It's safe. Measles and mumps can have serious complications apart from making you very poorly. Rubella is very dangerous for unborn babies. I think the problem we have now is there is a lot of people who have never seen these illnesses and their consequences. It's an abstract concept for them.

Because I’ve already had mumps and didn’t need that part of the vaccine

Just because people have a right to an free speech it doesn't mean other people have to tolerate the Flat Earthers.

@WhatsTheUseOfWorrying

I could say the same about the bots for the pharmaceutical industry.

Any medical treatment deserves discussion, especially when we parents are making choices for our children.

Some children are injured by vaccines and some children are injured by common childhood ailments.

not me personally, but plenty of people have chosen to do this. I’d imagine how it turned out was that their child ended up protected from measles (good), but not protected from mumps or rubella. Both of which can have horrible consequences, it’s just not in the news at the moment like measles is. Plus, they will have paid money to not fully protect their child. Interesting choice in my opinion.

As above, I’d have a lovely free MMR at your local GP, get fully protected from 3 nasty diseases and use the money to instead vaccinate against chicken pox. 4 vaccinations for the price of 1! Chicken pox is often not too severe (though it can be and can cause death) but I’ve never heard of anyone actually enjoying having it or enjoying having to keep kids off school/nursery and stay at home for a week or 2, so if you have the money spare it’s worth doing.

I have no love for big pharma. But it is a heavily regulated industry. And much of what it does is invaluable. (Not all, I agree.)

Anti-vaxxers just distort the truth, at best, and more usually tell outright lies. Theirs is a strange - and in its own way horribly fascinating - motivation. Why undermine the most significant public health benefit of all time, something that protects us all, even those very few who can’t be vaccinated? A benefit that we all know is proven to have kept hundreds of millions of children from disability and death.

There were even anti-vaxxers on here who denied that smallpox was eradicated by vaccination. Truly bonkers. But v dangerous too.

Single vaccines are a perfectly valid choice. It’s obviously not anti vax, because it’s still giving a vaccine.

My dc had single vaccines but it was 20+ years ago. It was a positive experience for us but I’m not sure if so it again if the single mumps vaccine wasn’t available.

Single vaccines arent a valid choice now as there is only 1 Single vaccine for measles that exists. If you want the mumps or rubella vaccines you would need to get a combined vaccine anyway

They have never been a valid hoice as the only people who recommend them make money from recommending single vaccines.
Even Wakefield had his own single measles vaccine lined up

There are even more who didn't have the vaccine and ended up disabled or dead. Your understanding of risk is woeful.

https://www.bmj.com/press-releases/2012/06/26/revealed-secret-businesses-which-aimed-exploit-vaccine-fears-%E2%80%9Cmmr-doctor%E2%80%9D-