Hives after measels vaccine

[craziedaisy]

3 years ago we decided to pay to have our son vaccinated with the single measels vaccine. There is autism in our family and I guess we were a little concerned. I am now more confident and had our daughter vaccinated with the MMR. A day after the vaccine my sone broke out in hives all over his body. We took him to OH doctor who gave him Piriton and it calmed down. I have been nervous about now giving him the MMR vacccine. Did anyone else have this problem after the vaccine. The doctor we saw said the hives could be due to the body fighting the virus.

Take the fact that it is a vaccine out of the equation. If you gave your son any other medication and he broke out in hives what would you do?

You can't take the fact that it's a vaccine out of the equation - there's an outside chance you can die from measles, there's not the same risk (to yourself and others) involved in passing on a dose of cough medicine.

Talk to a doctor that you trust and then consider their advice and do what you think is best

You can take that into consideration 4nomore but if your child has an allergic reaction to a vaccine then the vaccine could actually be a bigger risk than the disease. Unfortunately the logic that most people would apply to allergic reactions wrt food/medicine/antibs etc seems to go out the window wrt vaccines.

I've just reread the post again and I'm a bit confused about who reacted and to what! Your DD had the MMR but your DS broke out in hives a day later?

But Hives is often not caused by an allergy (Allergy UK states that, if you want a quick outside reference) and even if it was caused by an allergy who's to say that it was necessarily a reaction to the vaccination, plus a reaction in the order of hives may not progress to a worse reaction... I'm not saying forget it happened and press on, I'm saying get some more information/opinion and think it over. BTW, I'm also a bit confused on re-reading

Well I am confused after reading it and I wrote it!! Sorry the post is really about my son who is 5 but had the single vaccine 3 years ago and had hives about 24 hours later. The vaccine was made by Attenuvax not sure if this is the make of the combined vaccine. I really only mentioned my daughter because I thought I would explain that I feel more confident in the combined vaccine now and should have probably gone down this road to start with.

Does anyone know how much level of protection he would have from just one vaccine?

Many thanks and sorry for the rather long rambling e-mail. No sleep for the whole of this week due to sick DD!!

I think the idea of the booster is to catch the 10% or so of people who aren't immune from the first vaccine so he may not need it at all if the first one worked for him. You could always get his immunity checked and then decide what to do.