OMG - They think DS has measles

[RubySlippers]

After posting yesterday with my worries about DS (13.5 months) and his high temp etc we have been back to the doctors again and they are pretty sure he has measles
he is pretty unwell - crying/writhing and won't really eat or drink
they have to do swabs to confirm it, but they are treating it as measles
there has been an outbreak a few miles from us as well

Bibis - no vaccination can offer 100% protection from a disease, so yes it is still possible to catch measles even if a child has had the MMR vax.

Thanks guys

13 months is right on the earliest age for MMR vaccination- she may not have even got her invitation yet.

MMR works better after 15 months btw (slightly not much in it).

If you're given MMR before 12 months it doesn;t count officially (eg if youy're entering the US school system and need to prove vaccination) as the failure rate is so high.

If what DD had was indeed measles (no way of confirming it completely now) then there is no way I would want another little one to feel that poorly, deliberately. I wouldn't want another set of parents to have the worry involveed either. And DD didn't have any complications, other than being very poorly, from whatever illness it was.

dd2+3 were vacinated closer to age 2 that 1 for MMR.

i have immunity for rubella as caught it when i was ten.

school nurse said the other day that they are starting to do teenage boosters now in areas where there has been outbreaks in teenagers.

do they still do rubella jabs for teenage girls?

I can't imagine taking your child to a party to deliberately make him ill! Imagine how it would feel to look at your unwell little one and know you've done that to them!

x post hula

Oh yes sorry, when I asked Ruby if she had not got round to the MMR, I meant because her son is on the borderline age for vaccination. I did not mean to imply anything else.

yes but hula and redtoes you've vaccinated. If you decide not to vaccinate then you have a different dilemma as it is far nastier after childhood. FWIW we've decided to vaccinate just before puberty if ds2 and ds3 haven't caught measles, but if we'd decided no way were they getting the jab ever then I'd want to be pretty sure they weren't going to get it as teens/adults OR I'd be actively trying to expose them in childhood. Far safer in childhood. Of course if you deliberately expose then you can be socially responsible as well and keep your child away from others for the entire time they're infectious.

i was in solitry confinement when i had rubella. wasnt happy as was on holiday at the time. but i di get spoilt with sweets and comics.

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DS was due to have his MMR on 1 August - not impolite to ask although i wish it had been 2 weeks ago, but we couldn't get an appointment
according to the doc even if this is measles he should still have the MMR as getting it doesn't provide the same immunity as a vaccine

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If it's any consolation we thought dd2 had measles at around the same age - she had all the symptoms and a rash that could have come out of a textbook (my dh teaches on a minor illness course and took a picture of her to include!!!)

Anyway, the swabs that were taken proved she hadn't had it so fingers crossed for you that this may ne the case too. Hope he gets well soon

a hatrick indeed hatrick!

Rather werid comment from your doc ruby as you get better immunity from a full blown dose of disease rather than vax (although not to rubella or mumps of course). You can either give MMR or you could get the same protection giving mumps and rubella singly.

Being vaxed 2 weeks ago would have been a bit too late anyway for the immunity to have developed in time for the exposure. You're probably better off with him not having to deal with wild type measles, attenuated measles and attenuated mumps and rubella at the same time. So the delay was probably a good thing. Seriously! . And they won't give it before 12 months anyway except in cases of epidemic when another dose is then needed at 15 months.

God I had german measles, measles, chicken pox,mumps and whooping cough and I'm only 30 -hardly ancient!! It is amazing how terrified we are of these diseases now. My mum took them all in her stride.
Really wish your little one a quick recovery xx

I'm assuming her doc wants it to cover the other M & R.

My doc got arsey with me when I disputed having MMR as DS has already has rubella, so technically only needs an Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

He was not amused

Hope your son gets better soon. My dd had measles at 3 months old and its horrible, wouldnt wish it on anyones child.
Loads of meds and fluid, keep your chin up and you'll all be fine.
Good luck
hugs
L

The gp would always recommend the MMR regardless. Its harder for them(and more expensive) to get hold of them as singles.
We give women who have just had a baby and found not to be immune to rubella in pregnancy the MMR before they leave hospital. We used to just give rubella vaccine.