No BCG jabs for Solihull kids

[skinnycow]

We had a letter home from dd's school yesterday saying that Solihull has decided its not necessary and therefore will not be administering the BCG jab to school age kids now. Any other areas doing this?

try checking nhs direct -online. sounds a bit odd to me.

Sutton Coldfield (north Brum) are abandoning too

It's only for children at high risk where I am. I decided it was irrelevant for dd.

but haven't there been some outbreaks of tb in midlands schools last year sometime?

I'm a bit confused. They are now only going to have it in reception and year 7 is that right ??

I thought they only had it then anyway ?

I saw a poster in a chemist today warning that TB is on the increase! This sounds like a cost cutting exercise. Very mixed messages going out.

Mine all had it as babies.

The jab, not the disease

that's interesting GDG - were you at St.Mary's in Manchester?- I asked at the maternity hospital in Liverpool for them to give it to DS at birth, but they refused.

that's interesting GDG - were you at St.Mary's in Manchester?- I asked at the maternity hospital in Liverpool for them to give it to DS at birth, but they refused.

that's interesting GDG - were you at St.Mary's in Manchester?- I asked at the maternity hospital in Liverpool for them to give it to DS at birth, but they refused.

does it need a booster?

Probably because they give BCGs to babies in areas with high level of immigrants. My dd had hers at 6 weeks. Expect they calculate safe % of population covered.

mts have you got a stutter ?

We are in Trafford. When ds1 was born it was routine for babies born at Wythenshawe hospital (probably due to population there although we don't live there), when ds2 was born it was optional, when ds3 was born it was not on offer for people in my area so the HV pleaded ignorance and sent for an appt and got one.

The thing is, we don't live in an area with immigrants at all but we do travel into Manchester on trains/trams etc so still at risk I feel.

My dd wasn't given it as a baby, and according to her red book, she wasn't due to have it at all until age 10 - 14. No mention of it being given in Reception at all.

And as we're in Sutton, looks like the cost cutting will mean she doesn't get it at 10 - 14 either.

I'll have to fish the kids red books out and have a look. I think the Dd's may not have had it as babies but i think Ds has.

I think there has been an item about this on the bbc news website/media coverage saying that they aren't routinely jabbing teens anymore, but focussing on high risk groups.

There have been some incidences of TB in the Midlands recently; I wonder how the infection knows not to cross from a high-risk area to a low-risk one? Sutton might not be high-risk, my dd might not be high-risk, but surely stopping the vaccination in certain areas just leaves people open to infection if they happen to stray from a low-risk area to a high-risk one?

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4655355.stm

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4655355.stm

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Exactly WWB - that's why I had mine vaccinated - we don't live in a high risk area but we live on the outskirts of a major city which we travel into - can't it be passed into the air by sneezes so you could be at risk on a train/tube?

That would be my worry, I think. We use the train and bus a lot, we go into Birmingam a lot, and there are more of the groups there who are at risk of TB - immigrants, homeless and so on - than there are in Sutton.

I assume that's why they're dropping the jabs in places like Sutton ... I can just see the germs now ... Ooops, better not go there, lads, she's from Sutton and they don't get TB there.