worried about mmr can anyone advise??

[manuka]

Hello new mum here! I imagine this subject has been covered many times.
DD is nearly 1 so it's time to think about mmr. Am very worried because of all the stuff that was said about it.
Don't know what to do.
Am so worried about her becoming autistic from it. Is that completely bonkers? ? ?
I've read loads of stuff from both sides of the argument so bit of a brain overload and none the wiser.
What's the general consensus??

The general concensus,and evidence is that it is safe ibn 99% of cases.

That said,if you have any history of allergies,gut problems,autism etc etc (many websites and severla MN'ers are better qualified than me to give details)then don't do it.

If in any doubt,get them done individually.

My lo had this a couple of weeks ago and like you I was a bit concerned. I did some research and asked about a bit - decided to go for it and dd was fine.

Most of us go through the same worries but I decided the adv outweighed the neg.

Good luck ! Do what you feel is best.

manuka, I have had a bit of experience of both sides of this issue. A friend of mine works with adults with learning difficulties one or two of whom are disabled due to vaccine damage. In all cases she has come accross there has been a family history of severe reactions to vaccines, and I dont just mean a temperature. Vaccines work by giving a tiny dose of the illness which causes the immune system to learn the disease and enables it to counteract it when it comes into contact with it. When I was 3 years old i contracted measles, at first my mum just thought it was one of those chidhood illnesses within 24hours I was roasting hot and was not reacting to anyone. My mum called the doctor and I was rushed to hospital where I fell into a coma. I recovered fully within about 2 weeks but knowing how close I came to dying from measles meant I didn't even hesitate when the MMR was offered to my children. I would rather have an autistic child than a dead one. This is only my opinion and you have to chose what is right for your own children at the end of the day. Good Luck

I'm not letting DS have his my brother is servely autistic which only came on after mmr

"That said,if you have any history of allergies,gut problems,autism etc etc then don't do it"
tosh complete and utter few well said things above measles kills and debilitates PROVEN!! No proven link to autism Andrew Wakefield "research" discredited..go and talk to your GP please!

I had dd's mmr done (ds's was before the scare) because a girl I know who is ultra precious about her dd, has a hubby who is a medical researcher and she didn't hesitate to take her dd for her mmr. I know several other medical researchers who also didn't hesitate to take their dc for their mmr. Wakefield is widely regarded in the medical community as a bit of a crackpot.
I know that's a bit long winded but, that (in a nutshell) was why I had dd mmr'd.

hiya (sorry-long reply coming)
we had our dd(5) vaccinated singly as the mmr debate was widespread back then, but we found the decision to vaccinate singly so much easier then because as she was our only child, it didn't seem to matter if there was a few weeks delay in getting the next jab as she had no real opportunity to get in contact with any infections and we just kept her away from toddler groups in the meantime until she was "up to date"
..................but.......................ds1( 2.5) and dd2(14m) have both had their mmr because we beleive there is more chance of them catching measles,mumps and rubella through my daughters school(school run, after school clubs etc) and all the other social gatherings you normally have with a 5 year old. so we felt this was the right decision to make.
totally agree with lucie19 that i'd rather have an autistic child than a dead one, but wasn't wakefields "evidence" found to be all exaggerated anyway.
it's a difficult decision to make though as the diagnosis of autism is usually made at the child's 18m-2yr check up so it's easy to associate one with the other.
neither of my children have had any problems with either method of vaccination. dd2 had hers on wednesday and is absoulutely perfectly happy and healthy and was happly chatting away 5 mins after being jabbed.
go with YOUR gut feeling, not anyone elses.

I just wrote a long thankyou message for all your responses and it didn't come up! How annoying! Anyway thankyou, you've all given me much to think about.

No proven link between MMR and autism is minor comfort given:
(1) The long list of parents claiming their kids were just fine before MMR, showed severe reactions just after it, started regressing, then were diagnosed as autistic.
(2) The fact that medicines sometimes get administered for a long time before proven to be harmful. Thalidomide (prescribed for a decade for morning sickness and caused many birth defects) springs to mind.

So, although it is not yet proven beyond reasonable doubt, I am separately vaccinating DD.