Immune problem?

[Zoe91]

My 16 month old has cmpa and has a consultant for respiratory problems. He's recently had blood tests due to having lots of hospital admissions for bronchiolitis and pneumonia. I have had the results back and it says his haemophilus antibody level is low at

I couldn’t tell you exactly what those are connected with but it is an immune deficiency problem which to me sounds as if further investigation is required my 3 year old had similar results regarding his responses to pneumococcal and tetanus and needed more injections to bring him upto the protective level, have they given you an appointment to discuss results

His consultant wants him to have more haemophilus vaccine and more prevnar vaccine and then will check his responses again but I don't know when that is yet.

What happens with immune deficiency? Is it just more vaccines to keep them protected or does it depend on what it is that's causing it?

When my little one had to get extra injections, it take up to 6 weeks after the injections before they can take blood to recheck the levels to see if the vaccines are responding it all depends on the next results, if there is still an abnormality with the results then they would do further bloods / investigation to see if theres any other underlying conditions, my DS had loads off respiratory infections and breathing problems thankfully the injections helped him and on inhalers and steroids for his airways. I would find out when he’s to get injections so you can try and get complete investigations done

My daughter had the same with pneumococcal and was just given additional vaccine and then checked for immunity. She often has difficulty with immune responses to vaccines like this and has also had haemophilus, several times. The doctors say her immunity isn’t hugely bad but we just check as we go along. For example recently there was a chicken pox outbreak at school so her CP immunity was checked.
She also has suffered with staphylococcus and strep infections resulting in HDU with breathing problems. We just tend to have a low tolerance for taking her to the doctor for antibiotics. And also try and stay away from people with infections.
Although like I say, the consultants aren’t hugely concerned and say we should just ‘keep an eye’.
Let us know how you get on x

If the vaccined haven't worked then why should they the next time? Some natural ways to boost immune system are looking at gut health...fermented food possibly pro biotics. Good food state vit c. Magnesium.

I was also going to suggest fermented foods and drink such as sauerkraut and water kefir which are both very easy and cheap to make at home.

My DD also has issues with nasty chest infections and she has just had the additional prevenar injection that you mentioned and we’ll see if that improves her immune response. Her consultant said that another option would be to have the adult vaccine. I can’t remember the numbers exactly but he said that there are only vaccines against ~20+ of the thing (bugs?) versus about 90 which can cause the bacterial infections, so a big thing is to have GP ready to have ‘low threshold for giving antibiotics’. We have a letter to cover that. Sorry I don’t understand what any of this really means though, but trust the experts to do the best they can. We’re keen to avoid pneumonia!

My little girl is 2.3 and she has been constantly ill for the last 18 months. Reoccurring upper respiratory and ear infections mainly. They identified that she had no response to her first Haemophilus vaccine then gave a second dose and that has made no difference. We are currently waiting for the results of a third vaccine response test as they think they might have tested to soon the last time. We have had an appointment with an immunologist and all blood tests are back apart from the vaccine responses and they are all normal. We have another appointment in June but I’m not sure what they plan to do if she still shows no response to the haemophilus vaccine.

Thank you for all your messages.

I have booked in his haemophilus vaccine for next week. He had his pneumonia vaccine a couple of weeks ago which was part of his 12-13 month ones (he had them late as he's just been so poorly) so I assume he won't need that again.
So now I will just wait to hear from his consultant for another appointment which I'm hoping won't be too long

After his last lot of vaccines a couple of weeks ago he was very poorly with a temperature going from 39-40.6 for 10 days and calpol wasn't touching it.
He can't have ibuprofen as he only has one kidney so 4 doses of calpol in 24 hours was ridiculous.

The gps weren't concerned atall even when he started refusing food and fluid. I'm hoping now they have these blood results they will actually start taking it seriously.
It's just so hard to get them to listen sometimes, they seem to shrug everything off as a virus.

I hope he gets better soon! When my daughter gets a fever her paediatrician advises us to take her to the GP and have viral and bacterial saliva swabs taken. This has been helpful in identifying the infection so we can avoid giving her antibiotics all the time.

I am currently being tested for the exact same thing. Low antibodies to those two things. I had the prevenar challenge and the menitorix (?) jab to see if they would provoke my immune system. I’m due to be tested again in another month. I’m seeing an immunologist who didn’t seem too bothered - just thinks I have a crap immune system for those two things (which I obviously do since I’m ill all the bloody time). Then I think as pp have said they would treat me sooner with antibiotics routinely than a ‘normal’ person.

I’m not a little one obviously! Im
Nearly fifty but have been battling this for years so it’s actually quite nice to know it’s a thing.