Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
General health

Mumsnet doesn't verify the qualifications of users. If you have medical concerns, please consult a healthcare professional.

Original poster

Rather depressed at this logic re MMR

44 replies

Kathyis6incheshigh · 31/08/2007 16:01

Was just chatting to a neighbour who was telling me the compromise she and her husband came to re MMR: he didn't want their son to have it, she did, so he had the first one but not the booster

AIBU to find this rather depressing?

OP posts:
ConnorTraceptive · 31/08/2007 16:03

where do some people get their brains

Original poster
Kathyis6incheshigh · 31/08/2007 16:04

They are, actually, lovely and intelligent people
Which is why it surprised me so much.

OP posts:
pistachio · 31/08/2007 16:19

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

RubySlippers · 31/08/2007 16:20

that isn't a compromise though?!
you either have it, or not or single vaccines

hanaflower · 31/08/2007 16:21

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

EmsMum · 31/08/2007 16:22

They like gambling do they?

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 31/08/2007 16:23

mine havent had the booster.

expatinscotland · 31/08/2007 16:24

I wish they'd offer DD1 the bloody booster. She's 4.2 now. She was supposed to be going full time at pre-school, too, but we'll be moving before that happens and then I'm going to insist on the booster before she starts at the new school.

tiredemma · 31/08/2007 16:28

I dont recall ds2 having a booster to date- should I chase this up do you think? he is just 4 and starts school next week.

expatinscotland · 31/08/2007 16:29

It depends on the practice, but it's usually offered between the ages of 4 and 5. I'm going to insist on it before she starts at the new school and it's winter. She needs measles like she needs a hole in her head - she's already got developmental delays, learning delays and dyspraxia.

Original poster
Kathyis6incheshigh · 31/08/2007 16:30

Did you have a reason for that Misdee or was it just one of those things that happens because of opportunity and getting round to it?
Thing is, I could think of lots of reasons why it might come about (eg you change your mind in between in the light of new info), I'm just surprised that that's what they did as a deliberate decision. Surely if there really is a risk it's the early dose people are worried about? Or am I wrong about that?

OP posts:
tiredemma · 31/08/2007 16:31

Ah right- I can see your logic in insisting on it- ill ask the school nurse during the first term and see what the procedure is.
Measles terrifies me- bloody awful disease.

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 31/08/2007 16:33

mine did have their actual MMR till almost 2years old. the booster is there to catch those who didnt devolope immunity isnt it?

expatinscotland · 31/08/2007 16:33

My mother is partially deaf in one ear from measles, tired. And the thing is, although she has for the most part had a healthy life, now she is in her 60s that ear has given her NOTHING but trouble. Doctors say she suffered permanent damage to its functioning from that measles.

I ride the bus with a chap in his late 50s who is completely blind and totally deaf in one ear from measles complications when he was a youngster.

cat64 · 31/08/2007 16:33

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

Original poster
Kathyis6incheshigh · 31/08/2007 16:34

Hanaflower - her ds is much older now (10, I think) and I'm not sure he would be relied upon to keep it secret....
Still maybe now there are all these measles cases around he'll change his mind.

OP posts:
LadyVictoriaOfCake · 31/08/2007 16:34

also dd1 reacts badly to jabs with her skin. always get a flare up aftrerwards. her body goes haywire. when she had the HIb booster in 2003 (due to [problems with the lot she had as a baby) she went loopy and hyperactive. for days, it was like someone had changed my child overnight. i was shattered.

Dinosaur · 31/08/2007 16:35

I thought, though, that the purpose of the "booster" was to catch those children in whom for some reason the first MMR jab hadn't "taken".

If I am right, then many many children have the second one unnecessarily, because they have already been successfully immunised.

However, the MMR does wear off eventually (unlike the immunity you get from catching wild measles, which is lifelong).

I don't know what is the logic of not havinig booster in teh proper sense for our teenage children.

Dinosaur · 31/08/2007 16:36

LadyVictoriaofCake - sorry, I see you've already posted what I said, and much more succinctly!

Original poster
Kathyis6incheshigh · 31/08/2007 16:36

Oh, is it to catch those whose first one didn't take? I assumed it was that the immunity wore off as they got older. (Am no expert as my oldest is only 2.)

Cat64 - I think it was that only 3/4 had had the booster, so not quite as bad as the other way round.

OP posts:
expatinscotland · 31/08/2007 16:37

Oh, they definitely need a booster as pre-teens/early adults. We had mumps outbreaks at the university where I work for 2 years and having this disease as an adult is not good at all.

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 31/08/2007 16:39

i think they are now talking about offering boosters to teenagers arent they?

i know when i was a teenagersa all the girls were offered the rubella jab.

Original poster
Kathyis6incheshigh · 31/08/2007 16:39

Misdee/LadyVictoria - I am not surprised you are cautious if you have bad reactions.

OP posts:
Dinosaur · 31/08/2007 16:39

This whole business of the immunity wearing off is the main reason why I would in a way have preferred my DCs to catch wild measles, and mumps.

canmummy · 31/08/2007 16:40

on dose of the mmr is effective in about 90% of cases so the booster is to catch the other 10%. The trouble with not having the booster is how you can be truly sure your child isn't in the 10% not covered

Swipe left for the next trending thread