MMR in 2 days. He's 14mo, should I delay?

[LaTristesse]

I didn't want DS to have the MMR at the same time as the pneumo jab thing when we were offered it at a year old, and the HV told me the maternal immunity would be gone by 15mo so to make sure he was vaccinated by then. But I've since heard of people delaying it for several more months, and I'm tempted to do the same. DS is small for his age, and although he's in great health I'd rather give him as good a chance as possible of avoiding any side effects... Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Should I just get it over with now?

Well I would just get on with it personally.

If there isn't any history of auto-immune disease in your near family I would just go for it.

all you can do is read up on the whole subject, and come to your own conclusions as to what suits you and your family best.

I agree that if there are any autoimmune issues in your family, then you might want ot research further (asthma, eczema, diabetes, crohn's disease, etc).

Ah... I have ulcerative colitis, which gets grouped in with Crohn's disease, so maybe we should wait... I can't find much online about a link between them, just a recommendation for more research.

There's nothing wrong with delaying if you want a bit of time tonresearch it further. Don't rush into something you aren't comfortable with. You can always get the vaccine later but you can't take it out once it's in there! :)

Good point, thanks!
Is there a bit of a measles thing going on at the mo though? I'd hate to think of him catching it because I was delaying his jab...

I think that DD's paed said that even if you're doing single jabs, the measles one could in theory have adverse effects- the fact that it's in combination with the two others doesn't matter much, apparently. But then this contradicts what I have read about MMR on here-that supposedly single jabs are safer.

DD had hers at 12 or 13 months- her doctor said that she has never seen anyone having a bad reaction to MMR, but she has treated some awful complications from measles (she also works in a hospital) so that swung it for me, personally.

any jab could in theory have side effects (and all do of course).

it is the combination of the components that carries a higher risk - the mumps element in particular has been revised several times, and is now several times stronger than the mumps single jab ever was, in order to get it reacting even half-way reliably.

there is a known associated risk with contracting some viral diseases within a short itme of each other - eg measles and chicken pox contracted within the same calendar year increases your chances of complications and regressions for things like autsim. so to say the combination of elements carries no risk is a little over-simplfied, imo.