TB/BCG vaccine for newborn

[Strawberry1934]

My daughter is 2 weeks old and I have just had a letter in the post advising she has the TB/ BCG vaccine due to the results of her heel prick test. When I was there they offered a new test for this so I accepted (never did this with my 1st born 3 years ago)

Does anyone know if this is anything to sorry about?

As a child I has a number of on going tests as they thought I may have TB, but tests never 100% confirmed it, although I think they always said I'd been in contact with someone who had TB

Any advice/ experience welcomed please

I don’t have experience of being offered the BCG for those reasons, but all 3 of mine were offered it at birth due to being ‘high risk’ as they have family from southern Africa. They all had it although not at birth - various ages under 1, can’t remember precisely.

@DistrictCommissioner thank you. Can I ask , did it leave a big scar on your childrens arms ?

Not really, no. I’m old enough for the BCG to have been routine at age 13 so I’m familiar with it anyway, on my kids it’s like a fairly faint chicken pox scar. It does leave a big scab that takes ages to heal over & scar up but that’s temporary obviously.