Can someone put my mind at rest?

[Pluckyduck]

Hello, can someone please put my mind at rest re vaccinations? (Also posted in chat but not getting many replies)

My daughter is 3.5 and is all up to date with her vaccinations.

However I have just read randomly online that giving paracetamol routinely after jabs can reduce the effectiveness of the vaccines.

My daughter always had 2/3 doses of calpol after her vaccinations. I recall it being the standard advice for 8/16 week ones and I think in my sleep deprived state I just did it automatically for all the jabs so also the 1 year and preschool boosters.

Do I need to do anything? Do I need to contact my GP? Will She have to do them all again? How do I know if the vaccines have worked? I’m worried now I’ve gone through all that with her for nothing!

Can someone help put my mind at rest?
Thank you.

I've never once heard this. Where did you read it? Was it in anyway a reputable source? What was the evidence for it? And how did they suggest it reduces the efficacy?

Share a link to where you read it.

I'm pretty certain will be able to convince you she'll be fine, paracetamol is most definitely recommenced after some of the very early jabs, as it's the first time they're allowed calpol from what I remember.

I have read it too but I don't think it will make a negligible difference in your dd's case. Paracetamol is definitely recommended after the MenB vaccine but not recommended to give them after the others unless they get a temperature as a side effect

If it made a significant difference then health visitors and GPs wouldn't recommend it.

Please don't worry.

I can’t see that being true as it’s still standard to give babies Calpol after their first and third vanccinations so I really wouldn’t worry

www.nhs.uk/news/pregnancy-and-child/paracetamol-affects-childhood-jabs/

This is a link. Says not to use it prophylactically but use it if side effects occur. (MenB does require 3 doses of paracetamol though and guidance changed later on for this particular vaccine)

Thank you all, yes that’s the study. What is confusing is obviously that study was 2009 but then the men b vaccine was introduced and from the first appointment I had i was told to give 3 doses of calpol and then I just kept doing it for each one. I guess i just took it as what you do. So yes she had preventative calpol.

She’s my first (and only) so I was a bit clueless.

I’m just worried that she’s now not totally covered by immunity. The study doesn’t say whether this reduced immunity was significant or meant that vaccines hadn’t work.

So confused!