HPV vaccination

[Flowerfae]

Hi. DD is 12 and we have had a letter from her school offering the HPV vaccination. She has had all of her other vaccinations, but i'm a bit worried about this one as there is a tiny (and I know its really tiny) chance of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis.

DD had Encephalitis when she was two, it has had lasting effects on her and I'm a bit worried that because, as she's had Encephalitis,, would this make her more susceptible to something like that happening again due to the vaccination?

I thought I'd ask here in case anyone has any experience with something like this before I contact the school nurse and seem like a complete nut.

I doubt if the school nurse will be able to help...i mean if you asked them to sign something to say the vaccine is completely safe they can't. Research...delay
..read....decide yourself when you are ready.

Don't have any info on this issue, only on timing,fwiw
To be effective, vaccination needs to be prior to any sexual contact. So they do it early.

But, if you're happy that 12 /13 is not when your daughter needs this, it's fine to delay it. If it's already been given at her school, she could maybe have it later, with younger girls. Or, catch-up clinics are run in our area, but you have to travel to where they are being held.

So it's not now or never- you may have a year or two to resolve this issue.

And actually, on a different reason for vaccination wobble, I found the vaccination nurse,- the one who visit the school's to give the vaccine, the most helpful and we'll informed person I spoke to.

The more I'm reading the more it's putting me off. I think we'll contact the specialist consultant she was with when she was ill, he did say to contact him if we needed to after he discharged her. Its been a very long time though but might be worth just speaking to someone on his team.

Thankyou for the replies :)

DancingLedge .. I didn't even think of that .. she doesn't need it straight away, she's not going to be sexually active for years.