MMR worries

[Fisharesexy]

Hi, my 9 yr old son has never been vaccinated, I don't want to enter into a discussion about why.
There was a measles scare at his school this week, which bloody frightened me. It has been confirmed as a viral infection, not measles.
I've booked him in to have his MMR this Wednesday. Now I'm worrying.
I have an underactive thyroid, as do members of my family. Would this cause issues?
I would go for single jabs, but want him to have the mumps vax, as he is nearing puberty.
All my worries have come back again.
I keep reading horror stories about MMR, but I also look at stories of measles etc and feel it's worth the risk?
I just want to what's right for my son.
Any reassurances would be great.
Thanks

Risk of vaccinations are far far lower than risk of infection. It's a proper no-brainer.

Only a generation that has lived with the protection that vaccination brings could ever even conceive of being against vaccination. It's absolutely a crazy position, betting severe illness and death against a vanishingly small chance of downsides of vaccination.

(Yes, there are a very few good reasons not to, mainly allergies or otherwise completely broken immune systems. People who would be affected are often already heavily involved with the medical system anyway for their other problems).

Also, do MMR vaccines shed and could it infect someone?

No and no.

You're reading nonsense antivaxxer crap with no basis in reality. "Shedding" is not a thing, vaccines are designed to not be infectious - that would be ridiculous, right?

MMR vaccine is a weakened live vaccine and almost always results in just immunity, but can in rare cases result in a very mild infection in the recipient in rare cases - and not to the level where they become infectious.

Compare that with the case where you don't vaccinate, and the kid will absolutely definitely get one or more of those infections later in life, leading to an unpleasant week or three being ill, infectious, plus scarring, potential loss of fertility, damaging unborn babies... it's a terrible idea not to.

If your son can have the MMR - please let him have it.
Kids like my daughter who medically cannot have the MMR rely on something called Herd Immunity to protect them.

She picked up measles [rubola] soon after surgery. She was poorly. The fever spikes were very scary. She had to spend a week in a darkened room to protect her eyesight. Because her immune system can be a bit weird she souped the virus up. She gave it her dad.

He was beyond poorly. He rapidly became so ill he had to be admitted to a negative pressure isolation unit within an isolation unit. He could not breathe, see, his organs began to shut down and he almost died. Ayone in contact with him was advised to get immunised urgently. He survived but was left with premantly damaged eyesight and was off work sick for eight months. Take it from me the actual risks from catching measles far far outweigh the potential and maybe risks from a very rare vaccine reaction. I would hate to see another family go through what we did.

That's horrible @triballeader

"In 2012, Cochrane concluded "Existing evidence on the safety and effectiveness of MMR vaccine supports current policies of mass immunisation aimed at global measles eradication and in order to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with mumps and rubella.""

This rubbish about the MMR being unsafe were authored by Andrew Wakefield in 1998. It was a fictitious, fraudulent paper. In 2010 the GMC said Wakefield's research had been "dishonest ". He was struck off the UK medical register, and permanently banned from practicing medicine in the UK. In 2011, the BMJ declared Wakefield's research "fraudulent".

Why so many years on is the garbage this idiot wrote still being propagated and peddled, and believed today, it's almost 2019. 20+ years ago. It's thanks to this idiot herd immunity has been significantly weakened and we are seeing diseases return after thinking they had been virtually eradicated. What's even worse with these new variations is they are stronger strains, with antibiotic resistance. The potential to become superbugs.

Here you go @Fisharesexy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine

Some light reading for you...

Thanks for your replies, definitely going ahead tomorrow with MMR.

Just an update, he had his MMR, 6 in 1 and hepatitis b all in one go!!!!! Off school the next day with a sore throat, bit sniffy this weekend, but otherwise fine.
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Thanks to everyone who posted