MMR vaccinations

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Can anyone please give me advice on the MMR vaccinations... I am in 2 minds whether to let my baby have her vaccinations in a couple of weeks

I am hearing that there's research suggesting that it can lead to autism

I am basically wanting to hear people's opinions for and against it

I'm really unsure about the right thing to do

Thanks

They are fine. The NHS is totally fucked and wouldn’t be handing out free vaccinations that are going to cause a whole generation to be one unwell.

There is abolsitely no link with MMR and autism.

Maybe you should Google a bit more about autism so you can see the research was discredited. Both mine had theirs

THERE IS NO LINK
THERE IS NO LINK
THERE IS NO LINK
NO FUCKING LINK
NO LINK
THERE IS NO LINK
NO LINK AT ALL

THERE IS NO LINK~

IT'S PROVEN THERE IS NO LINK

AUTISM IS GENETIC

THERE IS NO LINK TO THE MMR

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT CAUSES AUTISM, WE CAN 100% SAY IT'S NOT THE MMR.

hope that helps.

Is the autism thing still circulating? I thought everyone knew that had been completely and utterly disproved, debunked and ridiculed years ago.

Get the MMR. Children are actually dying of completely preventable diseases because parents are still believing stuff like the autism nonsense from 20 odd years ago.

@TeddyIsaHe @dementedpixie thank you

@CaptainKirksSpookyghost ok so are you sure there's no link??

Fuck me. I just posted on another vaccinatio thread.
Vaccinate your child. There is no link, What so fucking ever, between vaccinations and autism.

Please watch this
m.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo

I heard a podcast on this recently: seriously from bbc r4. The episode is called in the Wake of Wakefield.

Btw no one dies of autism. You can die of measles.

Mmr and links to austim
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/3413041-Mmr-and-links-to-austim

We have covered this recently

In great detail

No link

Ok I'm getting that there is no link to autism So why do people choose not to vaccinate there children?

They get entrenched in pseudoscience mainly

Few other reasons but that's the most common one for it. Read the other thread... if you have time. It was so recent that I think people probably feel they've done this debate once in the last few days and less likely to comment

why do people choose not to vaccinate there children?

depends on the person but it's mainly stupidity.

Because we havent seen measles for such a long time we have no idea what a bastard it is, how it can kill or leave fairly horrific side effects.

Some children really do suffer from vaccinations so they have to rely on herd immunity. Measles cant spread if enough of us are vaccinated. But when more people choose not to vaccinate we lose herd immunity.

Firstly, there’s no link between autism and vaccinations. Just none.

Secondly, as someone who has a family member who has autism, I have to tell you that it’s absolutely better to be alive and autistic than to suffer side effects of the disease or worse (ie. death). It drives me nuts seeing people who would rather their children risk an infectious disease based on a suggestion of autism - it’s so deeply insulting to those who have autism.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT CAUSES AUTISM, WE CAN 100% SAY IT'S NOT THE MMR.

This makes zero sense. If nobody knows what causes it how can you know what doesn't?

We didn't vaxx our younger daughter after several family reactions to vaccines. My reaction (not MMR) nearly killed me, and my older daughter developed tics and anxiety disorders (post MMR). Our younger one is a picture of health, super bright and the happiest child I've ever known.

People choose not to vaccinate their children because they believe the crap spouted by anti vaxxers. The claims around well my child never caught X and they weren't vaccinated are down to herd immunity from the kids who were protecting their child.
I was shocked when I discovered someone I know had chosen not to vaccinate her DS. She is smart but believes a lot in alternative medicine etc and all pharmaceutical companies are bad (granted that is another discussion).

Ffs not this bollocks again.

This makes zero sense. If nobody knows what causes it how can you know what doesn't?

This is one thing repeatedly that science has found isn't a cause - repeatedly

I'm sorry you have had reactions in your family though and there are a tiny subset of the population who may have bad reactions to ANY vaccines... for your family - follow the advice of your healthcare professionals which may be different to that of the majority

This is one thing repeatedly that science has found isn't a cause - repeatedly

It's impossible to rule it out. Find me a single study that does more than suggest it isn't a cause. There could be as many different causes as there are different types of autism, but it's impossible to rule out the MMR as one cause. I am not saying it is a cause. Just speaking as someone with a background in statistical research.

To be honest I’d rather my child had autism than was dead. Measles can and does kill children and adults. That is a fact. And the number of cases are increasing. I would just never risk my child’s life.

For an unproven link to vaccines I should add.

Brazen, there's being technically correct and there's stating things that encourage people to allow their children to contract horrible preventable diseases.

Please be happy about being technically correct and don't feed the antivaxxers and their nonsense.

People don't choose to not vaccinate because of 'anti Vaxxers', People who don't vaccinate have done hours and hours of research, well months in fact. The NHS is not the only source of medical information, it would be naive to take everything they say as gospel. The problem with the mmr isn't because of the link to autism it's because of its link to childhood allergies, childhood cancers, increased childhood hospital admissions, neurological disorders, type 1 diabetes..... The list is long. Read up on the diseases you are considering vaccinating against and the statistics related to them. No one can make up your mind for you, but getting advice from Mumsnet is probably not the best place to start!

The link between autism and MMR has been repeatedly disproved through sound medical research.
The original work that suggested a link was based on observations of eight kids.
OP, get the jabs. There is nothing to worry about. Vaccinating your child is an amazing thing to do for your child - protecting them from a range of horrible diseases with devastating consequences, even death

Witchy, you need to find new places for your scientific research

SpoonBlender
I don't see why it's ok for pro vaxxers to post nonsensical falsehoods as though they were fact, yet antivaxxers can't post fact without being demonised.
Bonkers.