Did you continue to vaccinate after your baby had an adverse reaction?

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Hi all

This is the dilemma I face. I am pro vaccination but having seen my baby have a fairly disconcerting reaction to their 2 and 3 month vaccinations (I'll not go into details), I am still stewing over this decision. My lo is currently not fully vaccinated at 6 months and as we all know, whooping cough is doing the rounds.

I have had advice from a couple of doctors and also consultants but I would be extremely interested in hearing what other mums did in this situation and if you did continue, was everything ok or did the reactions get worse?

Thanks in advance from a worried mum!

Hi,

My daughter had a bad reaction to her 8 week jabs. As well as the high pitched screaming, vomiting, head ache (screamed at noise around her), she also had diorreah for one month.

I really did not want to carry on with the vaccinations, the thought of it made me feel physically sick with worry.

However, I did want her to be protected. So after a discussion with her nurse, we decided to do the 12 week jabs separately. I also gave Calpol about 20 minutes after each one (even though they say to wait until the baby reacts).

Thank god she was fine, a bit upset/ out of character for a few days but nothing like before. I know how worrying it is, I put it off until she was 17 weeks as I was so scared of how she would react.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

My DS had a bad reaction to each vaccination, after the 3 month vaccinations he was referred to have them done at the hospital under a consultant. I was very worried but the doctor explained that what ever reaction he had, it would be treatable and better than letting him go unvaccinated - plus more info but I'm sorry I can't really remember now. I got straight forward access to the children's ward after each jab and for the following couple of weeks just in case, so I didn't need to bother with A&E or GP. I'm glad I went ahead with them, yes he got a bit poorly and yes we did need to use the ward access once but it was all in a controlled a manner as possible, rather than just waiting to see if he got ill through being unvaccinated.

To answer your question, no we stopped. My advice is read the vaccine package inserts and widely (medical journals not google!) if you believe your lo had a reaction do also report it yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/
Good luck with your decision x

My dd had a bad reaction to the 8 week jabs but was fine with the others except the first swine flu jabs. Both she and I had a bad reaction (I had temporary paralysis) but we havebeen fine with all other flu jabs which include swinw flu component.

Ds reacted badly to his first set of vaccinations.

He was given his 2nd set in the children's day ward and observed and monitored afterwards. He had the same reaction again (stopped breathing).

One of the doctors on duty that day had seen a similar reaction in another child. It had been caused by a reaction to the whooping cough element of the vaccination.

He was given the 3rd set under observation but without the whooping cough element and was fine.

Possibly not much use to you though if you're trying to avoid whooping cough.