bronchiolitis and immunisations

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we have spent most of the weekend in OOH/ A&E with 12 week old ds2 who has suspected bronchiolitis. I am hoping it peaked on Sat night when he had temp/ weak cry/ sucking in chest and vomiting.

He seems much brighter this morning but still wheezy at times and coughing. He is feeding (ebf) great though.

They said he was not poorly enough to be admitted and a couple of times mentioned he was 'robust" as he is 98th centile, but obviously to us he is our tiny baby especially compared to giant ds1, neartly 3.

anyway, the reason im posting is that he is second set of jabs tomorrow, one dr we saw said they might delay the imms but the pead nurse we spoke to said to have them as it is important he stays up to date and he should be getting better by then.

what do you reckon? any advice?

Ds had it and was in hospital for a few days with it. Paed and gp nurse said postpone a week

And hes full of beans even though he was pretty ill with it

ok i will ring and speak to practice nurse to see what she suggests

We didnt. From what I can remember, we were strongly advised not to. It became a right pain, dodging all their childhood illnesses, colds coughs etc.

But advice may have changed. Yes, speak to the people who know.

I'd postpone, it really won't make much difference delaying a week or so. It's never a good idea to vaccinate when the immune system is suppressed, particularly with live vaccines. The whole point of vaccines is for the cells involved in immunity to recognise an antigen and produce an antibody in response so that the body can recognise and fight off the actual disease when exposed. If the immune system is already compromised there's a higher risk of reacting badly to the vaccine and the efficacy of the vaccine being reduced.

Spoke to Nurse Practitioner. She said to bring him in tomorrow and decide then, but generally advice is to do them unless has a fever?

I had this opposite way round. Dd was run down, cold etc. Nurse said she was fine and gave imms on Thursday.
On Sat she slept / cried / vomited and hardly fed. On Sunday no better and went to OOH. Ended up admitted to hospital for nasal feeding & 48hrs of oxygen.
Probably would've happened anyway but if I had my time again I'd have held off the imms until she was better.
Fingers crossed your DS bounces back soon.