Gaps between single vaccines (instead of MMR)

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Hi everyone,
I'm just looking into getting single vaccines (instead of MMR) for my 14 month old son. There are two clinics that I have found out about. One does them 3 months apart, and the other "at least one month" apart.
Does anyone know if there is any good reason for the wider spacing?
Also - are clinics monitored in any way? and how do you find out if they are an 'okay' clinic??!

Thanks for any advice!
gx

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I got the details of my clinic that I had single jabs for ds from this e-mail service Jabs website (see post below) sent me. You can get this from the website. It lists all recommended clinics. From what I remember the wide spacing is for the childs immune system to have recovered from one jab before having the next.

My clinic were great (a long 4 hour drive from my house each way though!). They give the vaccine box after to keep. were really sympathetic, have play facilities so that you can wait to make sure that you child has no reaction.

Ds sailed through the jabs. I think each jab was between 80 - 100 pounds

Also just to add - when I started my course of jabs the clinic sent me so much information about how they are monitored - they even sent me the doctors cv!!

I have just started the single vaccines for my son and he is having them two weeks apart. The doctor at first suggested 1 month apart, but we are moving to Australia in six weeks and so he said there was no problem in spacing them 2 weeks apart. DS had his measles injection two weeks ago and has his rubella tomorrow. I queried the spacing, but the doctor said it wasn't a problem. TBH, I am not sure what the effect is...

When I got measles for ds the clinic recommended a 1 year gap between each injection. Not sure why.

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As far as I know the minimum was six weeks, though the longer the better DS is having them every 3 months.

We had Rubella, 6 weeks later Measles, then 13 months later (because of the shortage) Mumps. We used Desumo Who were brilliant. They have a 'your questions answered' section on their website. It says:-

How long is the gap between vaccines?

We recommend a minimum of 6 weeks between the Rubella and the Measles vaccine and a minimum of 6 months between the Measles and the Mumps vaccine.

I left about 4 or 5 months. The Dr said 4 weeks was enough but for some reason I didn't agree. Can't put my finger on why!

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I went to the Breakspear Clinic in Hemel Hempstead - one of only a few registered/inspected by the National Care Standards Commission (Gov body). Can't remember the gap they recommend but I am leaving at least a year (though no mumps vax anyway at the moment, it seems). Now dd has had the measles jab, not that worried about mumps and not at all worried about getting rubella done yet - would rather she had both illnesses really.

btw, leaving a year as it is the gap recommended by Andrew Wakefield.

Dinny, I'm a bit worried about your comment that you'd rather your dd had rubella. If she does contract rubella, she could infect a pregnant woman and cause major disability (or even end the life of) an unborn child. Maybe even your unborn child if you become pregnant again.
I completely understand why you are choosing single vaccines, and am facing a similar dilemma at the moment myself. But please don't downplay rubella. It may not be very serious for your little girl but it could be very serious for someone else's unborn little girl. My best friend at primary school had a heart defect and was deaf in one ear due to rubella contracted during pregnancy so I do feel quite strongly about this.

Furball - have checked out your link and am dead impressed with Desumo. I actually feel for the very first time that I've found the answer to my 6 year long vaccination worry. Have not had my 6yr old dd or 3 yr old dd done, and have now got so many worries and fears (like, is the 6 yr old more likely to have a reaction because she is older, or should I actually wait to have the 3 yr old done until she is a bit bigger and mentally more developed??) that I'd got to the stage of just wanting to ignore it and hope I'd wake up when they were 18 and realise everything is OK. Am very grateful for this thread and everyone's brilliant advice

What I'm still not clear on is, can you have the measles one by itself, or do you have to do it in conjunction with rubella and mumps?

3PRINCESSES - I think you can do what you like. We were told by Desumo that you have Ruebella first then Measles then Mumps and paid for them all seperately. But we were having all of them anyway. Give them a ring, they are really helpful.

I think they recommend a larger gap between live vaccines, eg 6mo+, or else what's the difference in having them separately compared to the MMR if you leave only a few weeks? (as I think one of the concerns is that too many live vaccines are given in one go and the body hasn't the time to get over one before tackling the next). I would suggest you go for atleast 3mo apart.

So sorry about your friend, Edam. Didn't mean to downplay rubella - more that I'd rather she caught it to confer lifelong immunity (which the jab doesn't, necessarily). And I do believe every female should check her rubella immunity when of child bearing age.
I am pregnant at the moment and feel the onus is on me to make sure I am immune, rather than give such young children the vaccine.