I S THIS NORMAL??? HELP!!!!MMR

[mieow]

DD1 had her preschool booster done on thursday and now she had a large red, hot, dry patch on her injection site, it about the size of a large orange. Its not swollen but she is saying it very sore. She is shaky too.

Not sure but if its any help there was another thread on here the other day (don't panic when I say this) for someone whose dd had got an infection, thru the nurse not swabbing the site before injection, but her childs was brown and kept growing in size, I'd ring NHS direct to check.

You know I can't remember her swabbing the site, she had the MMR and the HIB, whooping cough etc booster. She has Cerebral palsy, and am a bit concerned as she has a bad reaction to a simple cold, of course the doctors said she should have it, because of her lower immunity system, and I did it

Just measured it and it 8cmx8cm, thats big isn't it?

Hmm sounds a bit large, I remember the other person drew a felt tip line around her dd's to check for growth, you could try that, but I'd get the doc to check it, her dd's got registered as an abnormal reaction....

think is I don't know what arm they done each one in, and I didn't have her red book.

its hard too, have phone NSHdirect

Sounds like an infection- make sure she sees the emergency doc today- she'll need antibiotics I suspect. Did we ever discover why they stopped swabbing injeciton sites (was it allergy to the alcohol wipe?) these reactions seeem to be getting more common.

Have just spoken to NSHdirect and they said its quite a common reaction

hopefully it'll be gone in a couple of days then

they said to keep an eye on it and if it still there in 48 hours to phone back