SepVax, how long did you wait for the mumps vaccine?

[Chandra]

After severe reactions to first vacinations we have decided not to risk it with the MMR, however, I have read that there's a shortage for mumps vacine. How long did it take you to complete the full course? (between the first vaccine and mumps which I believe is the last to be administered)?

as I expect the demand would have increased therefore the waiting must be longer as well so, if you have used sepvax, how long ago did you completed the course?

chandra- its given becuase its part of the MMR basically. No other reason. Single mumps vaccine was available years before the MMR but the dept of health didn't think the risks of the disease (minimal even in adult males) warranted giving the vaccine. SO it was never used in the UK.

jimjams - in previous thread you mentioned a quote from a by Randall Neustaedter

"the mumps vaccine is known to cause meningitis - he gives a few studies. One gave a fgure of one case per 3.800 doses, another one per 1000 (these are all referenced - one of those was a lancet paper). In japan the rate was calculated as one per 2000 doses of MMR. "
I'm being thick here but is he saying that in nearly 1 in 4 cases the single mumps vaccine caused meningitis?

jimjams - in previous thread you mentioned a quote from a by Randall Neustaedter

"the mumps vaccine is known to cause meningitis - he gives a few studies. One gave a fgure of one case per 3.800 doses, another one per 1000 (these are all referenced - one of those was a lancet paper). In japan the rate was calculated as one per 2000 doses of MMR. "
I'm being thick here but is he saying that in nearly 1 in 4 cases the single mumps vaccine caused meningitis?

no somewhere between 1 in 1000 and 1 in 3,800.

There were different strains of the mumps vaccine- the urabe strain caused a high number of cases of meningitis and so was never used here. (Although last year a single vax clinic was mysteriously sent a box-and then had an attempter burglary or something- the clinic thought they were being stitched up- better than James Bond isn't it!)

katierocket- jeryl lyn is the strain you want- as its not assocaited with the increased rates of meningitis. It's the right vax!

thanks jimjams, how dim - 1 in 4!!

still undecided about whether to go ahead. will do some more reading.

katierocket - the menigitis associated with mumps it's not the kind of blood-poisoning meningitis that causes people to lose limbs etc - it's very different. The kind of meningitis triggered by mumps is basically a severe headache. You always get better quickly and there are no side-effects.

Mine both had single measles and I was advised to wait a year before giving mumps so didn't even apply for it, then a year or so later heard it was really hard to get.

When ds2 got his measles the Doctor informed me that the Government were restricting the amount of mumps vaccines allowed into the country. Unbelievable!! First they de-licence single vacs in the UK and then even if you still refuse MMR and are willing to pay for single jabs the decide to make it even more difficult and restrict imports. I think it is the Governments way of trying to force more parents to go with MMR, next they'll be restricting the supply of measles vacs(my opinion only).

Maybe, but maybe not. I think the reason they have restricted mumps is because its safe to do so, as mumps really is not a serious disease- and only causes problemsin very very few cases, and there isn't much of it around..... They sell mumps on the meningitis link- forgetting to mention- as Aloha has said that we are talking about aseptic meningitis which is an entirely different kettle of fish than bacterial.

If they restricted measles that could lead to deaths that could be attributed to that decision, so I doubt they will. Whether the drugs companies will stop manufacturing it is a different matter (although I suppose patents permitting- are these things pateneted?- a smaller company could spot the gap in the market and step into to produce their own version).

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