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Advice on MMR boosters

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Thomcat · 03/04/2006 20:14

So sorry if this is old ground and been done to death before.

Lottie had the MMR done as seperate jabs.
We've just had a note through that it's time for her to have Diph, Tet, Apert, Polio Booster and the MMR2 done.

Is there the same feelings towards MMR2 as the first lot? And if you have them done as single vaccinations is there still the need to have them again?

TIA

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Dingle · 03/04/2006 20:16

I will watch with interest TC. Amelia is due her booster and ATM we have had cases of measles in our local school and a case of mumps in Amelia's SN nursery!Shock

hulababy · 03/04/2006 20:18

We are due for the booster too. Had MMR first time round but DD reacted to it and ended up being pretty poorly for 10 days. We have just had a referral to the community peadiatrician to discuss our best option with the booster.

We have had some big measles outbreak in next town, so very much in news locally for us.

donnie · 03/04/2006 20:19

dd1 had sep vax and recently had the dip/tet/polio etc booster but I refused the MMR booster because I know for a fact she has measles immunity ( she's been tested for it). AFAIK sep vax are more likely to give immunity than the MMR.

foxinsocks · 03/04/2006 20:21

how old is Lottie? (just wondering because I think ds must be due his pre-school boosters but we haven't had a letter)

I think even with single vax you are supposed to have a booster

donnie, don't think there's any medical proof about sep vax being more likely to give you immunity

Angeliz · 03/04/2006 20:21

We had dd1 checked for immunity before we gave her any boosters.
She was immune to Rubella and two types of polio.
SO she has had the dtp booster ( which i requested as it's the one she has as a baby) and no more.

The one i have a niggle about is measles but i just can't bring myself to go and do it again. (have enough on my plate being in the middle of dd2's jabs). She's had one mumps but was 4 by then . As she has some antibodies to measles i'm hoping that if my worst fears happen and she should come into contact with measles she'll get it mild and that will be her booster.

Good luck in whatever you decide though, i hate this part of babyhood!!

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Thomcat · 03/04/2006 20:24

She's 4 yrs old.
Hmmmmmmmmm so do the worries that concern the MMR1 still stand for the MMR2?

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foxinsocks · 03/04/2006 20:27

I think if you were worried about the first one, your concerns would be the same for the second (except for the fact that your child is older)

foxinsocks · 03/04/2006 20:28

thanks for answering about the age - ds is 4 too and is prob due these other jabs although we've already had MMR2 because there was a mumps/measles outbreak a while back (we have fallen through the system as we moved a few years ago and never seemed to be caught by the HV!!)

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Thomcat · 03/04/2006 20:32

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, i thought I was over all this. I didn't realise that the MMR side of things would have to be repeated. What a massive pain in the backside. Think I'll ring the clinic that gave her the single jabs and chat with them.

Couldn't agree more Angliez, this jab business sucks.

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ruty · 03/04/2006 20:41

i was under the impression that tgeh MMR was much safer [and for most children there isn't a problem with safety, only a small minority] at three or four. Something to do with the brain formation at that age.

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Thomcat · 03/04/2006 20:44

Oh really ruty, thaqt's interesting. anyone else know anything about this?

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Chapsmum · 03/04/2006 20:45

there was a thread recently where someone had the figures which showed how succesful the single vacination was...
you could have the titre leve blood test done? or contact the clinic that did them...

Chapsmum · 03/04/2006 20:50

\link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=138&threadid=159732&stamp=060329125419#3347281\here it is}

foxinsocks · 03/04/2006 20:55

even though they publish those figures (they didn't say where they came from), they (direct health) still say in their blurb that they recommend the boosters

Chapsmum · 03/04/2006 21:00

Am always wary of the sources too foxinsox. the only way to be absolutly sure is to go for the booseters or have the blood tests.

ruty · 04/04/2006 09:06

yes i would have the blood test.

Uwila · 04/04/2006 11:50

Did anyone else here about the 6 nurses in Central Middlesex Hospital (Northwest London) who caught measels from 2 children who came into the hospital with measels?

\link{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4871790.stm\Six nirses with measels}

I'm very interested to know if these nurses had the MMR (or singles). Did they catch measels because the jabs had worn off by adulthood? I know some people think that getting these jabs in childhood puts us at risk as adults because the immunity wears down when the diseases are more serious.

ruty · 04/04/2006 13:00

i wondered about that too uwila. they're not going to tell us tho.

suenorth · 04/04/2006 13:37

We've been called in for our 4yr old dd to have the MMR booster (she had single vax 1st time round). The private clinic that did the singles told me that the blood test is not enough to rely on: it only tells you whether there is some immunity or not, and can't tell you whether it's enough immunity to not get the disease.

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me - does anyone who's had the blood test done have any comment??

Angeliz · 04/04/2006 13:41

The blood test shows what your childs antibody levels are next to what they think is required for immunity.
It's not an exact science but then, the boosters aren't a 100% garantuee(sp) either so it's whatever you decide to go with!

TinyGang · 04/04/2006 13:49

\link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=138&threadid=156975&stamp=060321101022\This}is quite a recent one too.

festiveface · 04/04/2006 13:55

how do you go about checking if they are immune? do you have to get it done privately?

suenorth · 04/04/2006 13:59

Thanks Angeliz & TG.

Socci · 04/04/2006 14:05

It's the same jab as the first one isn't it? But as someone else said, children under 4 are more at risk of regression.

clicker · 04/04/2006 14:27

poor nurses. 6 seems a high number, I wonder what proportion of nurses that came into contact with the children that was.

\link{http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=3556777&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum\old}

\link{http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=8511518&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum\I assume this is being followed up}

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