How are you treating measles?

[HotWaterBottleSmell]

North Londoner obviously concerned about the measles situation. As I understand, the hospitalised children are partially vaccinated. How are they being treated in hospital? I mean, with what? As far as I am aware there are no specific treatments for measles. Sorry if I am being dim! If my child catches measles, what do I do about it? Wait it out? Are the kids who have been hospitalised suffering from secondary conditions (pneumonia etc)?

I had it as a child and developed a lot of problems with my eyes. There wasn't much treatment just lying in a dark room hoping my eyesight wouldn't deteriorate. Measles can cause a lot of eye problems from conjunctivitis to keratitis and even blindness.

MMR is given at 1year old and usually the second dose is as part of the preschool boosters.
However my DS1 had his booster at 15months as there was a local outbreak and all the boosters were pulled forward.
Made the preschool jabs easier as one less to pin him down for once he realised that he didn't like the sharp scratch

Is your child not vaccinated @HotWaterBottleSmell ?

If your child isn't fully vaccinated, go and get them vaccinated now. If you suspect they already have measles, phone your doctor or 111 and ask for advice.

Where on Earth are you seeing that 1 in 3 die from it? In 1963, for example, before any vaccines for it, there were over 600,000 cases in England and Wales and 127 deaths. That’s 1 in 4724, not 1 in 3!

Don’t your children have vaccination booklets?

Kind of irrelevant when the hospitalised kids are vaccinated. I just want to know what people are doing to support their kids who catch measles, in case I am ever faced with that situation.
For reference, I am immune and never had MMR or any measles symptoms in my life, but definitely had chicken pox when I was 4 pretty badly and have lots of scars.

I can’t find any reference to 1 in 4 being hospitalised. In the press I can only see “some” children hospitalised, whereas last week they were saying 1 in 5. I suspect that has come from some statistic like “1 in 5 children with measles end up hospitalised” rather than actually are currently, otherwise I think it would be all over the news. I was worried by the “1 in 5 are hospitalised” when I read it. 1 in 4 woukd mean over 30 kids currently hospitalised with measles. Is that correct?

So your child isn’t vaccinated then OP.

@HotWaterBottleSmellif your children have had their full possible doses of the MMR vaccine then you really shouldn’t be worrying this much. Have they? You’ve avoided answering that so far. That is what people are doing about it. They are vaccinating their children.

Why don't you just read the nhs website OP? It is all on there in plain, simple language.

As I understand, the hospitalised children are partially vaccinated.

Source?

Why haven't you vaccinated your child, OP? And how do you know you're immune?

If your child gets ill you need to ring your GP or 111 and they'll guide you, based on how your child is presenting.

Hoe do you know you are immune?
Is your child vaccinated?

Where are you getting that OP? The BBC article I read said the kids had NOT been fully immunised.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev7edxxzm7o

Sounds like those kids have had their first but not second MMR jabs.
OP - if you haven’t vaccinated your kids, it’s not too late.

We are in north london and our letter from the council said that 1 in 4 had been hospitalised.

They haven’t been fully immunised, not sure where you are getting that.

Not sure how you know you’re immune. You know you can still get the MMR whatever your age?

I hope your children are vaccinated. I hope they haven’t already caught it. Your post made me concerned.

Most of all, I wish my child didn’t have to share a childcare setting with the unimmunised children of morons. They should make vaccination a condition of the 30 free hours imo, perhaps even of school and childcare attendance. Anyone who doesn’t believe in medicine is welcome to choose to homeschool their children.

We are in north london and our letter from the council said that 1 in 4 had been hospitalised.

They haven’t been fully immunised, not sure where you are getting that.

Not sure how you know you’re immune. You know you can still get the MMR whatever your age?

I hope your children are vaccinated. I hope they haven’t already caught it. Your post made me concerned.

Most of all, I wish my child didn’t have to share a childcare setting with the unimmunised children of morons. They should make vaccination a condition of the 30 free hours imo, perhaps even of school and childcare attendance. Anyone who doesn’t believe in medicine is welcome to choose to homeschool their children.

Where is your source that the hospitalised children are vaccinated? That sounds like you have fallen for some misinformation.

I had measles as a child. I had a febrile convulsion after my first vaccine (they used to do three separate measles vaccines in the 70/80s) and our GP told my mum I was not to have any more due to the reaction.

I was 14, it took about three weeks to fully go and my only treatment was rest and fluids.

They are not wrong. A lot of the outbreaks are amongst vaccinated populations. This used to get reported in the papers, including the guardian. But there has been a noticeable shift in reporting. One might even call it censorship.

I had measles in the 80s when I was 10.
I just remember being in bed for ages, too exhausted to care or be bored. I assume I would have had paracetamol - half a tablet probably, I'm not sure Calpol existed then, if it did, it was too posh for us!
I think vaccines were available (not the triple mmr) as my older brother had his, but I didn't have any due to having a seizure when I was a baby.

I had it aged 1. I was apparently very unwell but recovered ( obviously).
Generally it is nasty but most children surrive without complications.