Is there any point vaccinating now?

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My DC are 13 and 11, they were not vaccinated as babies for reasons I don’t want to go into on here, it is not the point of the post.
Question is, are they now at a similar level of immunity to most adults? I mean most people my age only had a few vaccinations, the babies now have at least 5 times as many. Do I still need to get all those done or are they likely to be as immune as most adults, I wonder if anyone has good knowledge of this?

Because of herd immunity they are not 'immune' but protected by the fact that the majority of the population is immunised and therefore immune.

The illnesses I would worry about at their age are meningitis, mumps, rubella.

Op - your post scares me.

If they have not been vaccinated and they have not been exposed, ie had the illness, they are not immune. Full Stop.

It won’t be long before children the same age as yours will be eligible for booster immunisation and vaccinations as the immunity wears off. I had all my jabs as a baby as did my DP and we both got whooping cough about 10 years ago. That’s about 45 years since my jabs and 48 since my DP. Believe me whooping cough is no joke as a adult.
Get your children immunised as soon as you can and get yourself boostered as well

OP I didn't have some of my childhood vaccinations due mainly to moving around countries etc and my parents not being particularly on point about that kind of thing. I had BCG and Rubella jabs both done as an adult and on the NHS and incurred no costs or barriers to getting these done. Hopefully your dcs manage to access their jabs - they really are so important.

OP- were you vaccinated as a child? If you were then no, you don't need to be vaccinated again. However, if you weren't then yes you should get vaccinated now the

I don’t understand... were you vaccinated as a child or not? If so, you don’t need to get them done. If you didn’t, and haven’t been exposed to the illnesses, then you should.
I’m 33 and had exactly the same vaccinations as my 4 and 2 year olds, bar the new Men B one.

Hope this link works

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/658744/Algorithm_of_individuals_with_uncertain_or_incomplete_vaccine_status.pdf

"I mean most people my age only had a few vaccinations"

How old are you?

I'm in my 50s, and we had DPT and (sugar lump) polio, BCG and girls had rubella. The measles jab rolled out just after I'd had measles (the NHS MMR catch up doesn't include the over 50s as so many of us had the wild disease, but I think does cover everyone younger).

The various meningitis, HIB and rotavirus jabs are the only new ones; and the other change was switch to injectable polio.

@Ecureuil OP is referring to her DC

Absolutely go and have your children vaccinated. If your son catches the mumps, he could end up infertile. If your daughter gets rubella when pregnant, it could seriously damage the fetus, not to mention risk to their own lives.

I had the mumps myself as a child, it was horrendous. Its the only illness I actually remember from my childhood and it was so incredibly painful.

Go to your GP!

They may be immune to some things e.g. Mumps/rubella because they can be quite mild/asymptomatic but they probably aren't immune to others. Depending on what they're planning to do that may or may not be an issue for them but it's worth having a chat with your GP. They may not offer some of them because they're given when the children are more vulnerable to the disease e.g. Rotavirus and they probably wouldn't need protection now.

"I am 37 and I had every vaccination my children have had so things haven't changed that much."

We're quite close in age and there are quite a few vaccines now that I wasn't given when I was younger - MMR, Rotavirus, Men C and Men B for a start. (I think I had the Men C in uni but if wasn't offered when I was a baby)

My DS didn't have the MMR jab at the appropriate age as his was due just as the Wakefield report hit the news. He was already showing signs of possibly having ASD so we tried to get him the single jabs - just as the Government pulled the plug on them. He eventually had the MMR jab at age 16 done at our GP practice. It was DSs decision - he read all the evidence (or lack of). Before I come under attack I never believed that MMR caused autism but had reservations that maybe for susceptible children it may be a trigger to worsen the condition. DS did get a diagnosis at age 6.
Never too late to catch up on vaccinations.

I’m 41 And didn’t have MMR, men B, men C or rotavirus. They weren’t on the standard schedule when I was growing up. I caught measles, mumps and rubella though, so I have immunity to those.

I'm in my late 30s and didn't have the Rotavirus, MenB, MenC, MMR (I had a separate Measles one I think), PCV, Hib or HBV vaccines (although I had this one through work years later). I did catch Mumps naturally (annoying but not that bad as a child for me), and Rubella (didn't notice this one but I'm immune), so have at least some immunity to these.

I didn’t have many of the vaccinations as my parents chose not to let me have them.

I had to pay for many as an adult when visiting Kenya recently. Apparently it varies between trusts and only some areas can offer the catch up free of charge.

I had mumps as a kid, left me deaf in one ear

Oh, I also didn't have the whooping cough vaccine because my parents refused that one - it was the cellular kind that was associated with severe vaccine damage, and someone down the road was left severely disabled by it.

I had measles mumps and rubella illnesses as a child because I am very old and was vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus , polio and whooping cough because that was the schedule at that time.
Today the schedule includes all of these and various meningitis vaccines.
Measles is currently circulating in Leeds and last year Edinburgh Uni and Glastonbury festival.
Tetanus can’t be eradicated as it lives in the soil.
Many people carry meningitis in their throats and can pass it on so there are very real risks if you aren,t vaccinated
www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/658744/Algorithm_of_individuals_with_uncertain_or_incomplete_vaccine_status.pdf

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-42002905

I’d get them done ASAP. There could even be the risk of developing post viral fatigue/ ME from for example mumps, besides the other issues it causes.

I had mumps as a child (I’m 40) I remember how bloody awful it was.