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Immunisation anxiety - pre school boosters

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OhWhatAPalaver · 03/08/2020 23:45

It's me with the anxiety. I'm utterly terrified of my 4 year old having her pre school boosters. She's booked in on Thursday, we've delayed it for ages already because of covid and she's starting school in September. The reason for my anxiety is that my eldest was so ill after the pre school boosters that she ended up in hospital. She got ill initially a few hours after the jabs with a high fever and lethargy etc. She was poorly for a few days then seemed to improve. Then on the tenth day, when the mmr kicked in, she developed another high fever, was sick and had breathing difficulties. She had never had breathing difficulties before and she ended up being taken to hospital in an ambulance. She had to have oxygen, nebuliser, steroids, it was all very scary. I've booked my youngest in to have only the 4 in 1 first and then going to do the mmr at a later date but I'm just so stressed and terrified that something bad will happen again. My eldest developed asthma after she had the hospital admission. I know logically everything that happened to my eldest is better than measles etc but I'm still so worried. I'm so stressed about it all I'm thinking of holding off until the stress of covid has passed. We are right next to Manchester and just before they locked down again we'd literally just started socialising more normally with family and now I'm also worried because of the increase in cases. I don't know what to do any more Sad

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