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Sickness & Diarrhoea after vaccination

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Starlive23 · 04/04/2019 22:19

DD had MMR and other 12 month vaccines today. She's had severe sickness and diarrhoea since, we have given her Calpol and like everything else today she's thrown it straight back up.
Temperature and sweating.

I've called 111 who have advised it's not a typical side effect so have been told to take her to out of hours GP.

Anyone else ever had this? I was warned about this with rotavirus vaccine but not the 12 month jabs and nothing on the NHS website or leaflet we were given.

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Nogodsnomasters · 05/04/2019 07:47

As 111 have advised this is not common side affects of this vaccination. This mmr is a booster if I remember correctly so she'll have had a dose of this before at earlier jabs so if she had no reaction to those then I can't see if being an allergic reaction. It is entirely possible she already just had a stomach bug ready to strike and its just bad timing.

Starlive23 · 05/04/2019 15:52

Thanks so much for your reply. I think you were correct in your thinking, the doctor agreed it was most likely just coincidental that she caught a bug at the same time. I just panicked as her cousin had an allergic reaction to the jabs and I just didn't want to ignore in case it was something serious.

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Bigkingdom · 07/04/2019 17:22

The MMR at 12 months is the first MMR children have, followed by the booster at 3 years. Vaccinations before 12 months protect against different illnesses.

It is possible this is a vaccine reaction. My children were quite unwell straight after their MMR vaccines with vomiting, fever, followed by loose stools.

Starlive23 · 07/04/2019 18:12

Thanks @Bigkingdom to be honest I thought it was a bit of a coincidence, but she seems to have picked up a bit today. A friend also told me that her daughter had had a similar reaction so perhaps it's not so uncommon. The doctor was absolutely adamant that it wasn't connected to the injections...I mean I had already had the jabs, I wasn't questioning the safety or anything like that, I just wanted to know if it was normal.

It seems a hot topic at the moment I suppose!

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Triangled · 08/04/2019 21:45

Doctors always say it's unrelated. No point asking them to be honest.

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