MMR Jabs

[womblesgirl]

Please can someone advise some good websites where I can gain some unbiased info around the 3 in 1 jab given to 13mth olds. DS is due anytime now and am tryting to formulate a decision on whether to give DS the combined jab or the jabs individually.

Thanks

I have no websites to hand, but a google will soon bring them up. But just wanted to say please give your baby the combined jab. The original "study" (I use the word in inverted commas as the numbers of children involved were so ridiculously small as to make any conclusions invalid, and it was also funded by parties with a vested interest in "proving" there was an MMR-autism link) has been so widely discredited by other studies all over the world that it can safely be said that there is no link between the combined jab and autism. The single jabs haven't been subjected to anything like the same safety testing as the combined jab has, still contain mercury just like the combined jab does, and require 2 doses each - so you would be subjecting your baby to 6 separate injections. Full immunity doesn't come in until after the second dose so there is an increased risk that your baby will get one of the diseases (and in rare cases babies have died from measles).

Please don't believe the argument that the combined jab "bombards" the immune system and overloads it - your baby is exposed to millions of pathogens every day just by breathing. The immune system is designed to cope with much more than the 3-in-1 jab will ever throw at it.

Sorry this sounds like a rant but this is something I feel very passionate about. I don't work for a drug company or have any vested interests in them but the science supports the 3-in-1 jab and we are so lucky to live in a country where it's an option for us.

Thank you very much for this. I can say that we are 98% sure that he will be receiving the 3 in 1 anyway but I just needed to do some reading before we made the final decision. You have just reiterated what I thought to be the case. Thanks. I did not know about the mercury so it sounds like the 3 in 1 jab is the way to go.

the single mumps jab is also not available at the moment so if you went for singles you would have to miss that one out