MMR or not - help please

[weejie]

what should I do? get the three in one or pay for three separate?

help!!!

Yurt1 is your lady for that. You could try searching on her name and MMR at the same time. .

also Gess, who is not here any more. (She isn't Yurt1, is she?)

my 2 had seperate mmr and i payed about £300 per child. i asked about risks of the booster and he said there was no problem with the booster mmr triple jab.mine will have the mmr triple jab when needed as i believe he wouldn't be making money otherwise!!! do what you believe in but i think it is always best to jab!!!!!!!!

Look at this mmr thread VLong but many links", probably make you cross eyed. yurt was on mmr thread
in Jan, she supports wakefield

MMR every time.

Single jabs do not offer the same level of immunity and do not have the considerable weight of evidence of long-term safety that MMR has. Measles, mumps and rubella are all awful illnesses with potentially unpleasant complications. There is no reliable single mumps vaccine available in the UK as far as I'm aware. There is also the fact that you have a longer period to wait before immunity develops compared with MMR and with single jabs you subject the child to several more needles, which I think is cruel.

You have to do your own investigations and do what you feel is right for you. Listening to other people's experiences won't help.

I am not convinced by the single jabs as the only person I know personally who had a reaction to a measles vaccine was my cousin. He had his injection in the days before MMR was even introduced and he still got ill and he still developed Crohns Disease.

Now one person does not make a scientific study any more than anybody else on this thread knowing people who have had reactions to immunisations. There may be no link at all. However, it made me think and we have to accept that nothing is without risk. There is no 100% safe way of doing this.

Prior to introduction of the MMR, when children had single jabs there were still 100,000 cases of measles every year in the UK. This is because the single jab is less effective and there is a 2-6 month delay period in which immunity is yet to develop and the child remains vulnerable to infection.

I have seen 2 cases of measles in children supposedly immunised with single vaccines but none in children who have had MMR.

It's a difficult one, I agonised over it for a very long time, and read every article I could find and still like you felt very unsure, in the end DD had the 1st mmr at 3 1/2 I also kept a check on the whether we had measles in our area, DD was fine and had no adverse reaction. Rightly or wrongly I felt better that the time at which she had it it was clear she had no developmental or allergy issues. The other side of this was she was unprotected for a longer period of time. DD and DD2 had MMR at 2 1/2.
I know I must have bored everyone silly with the question at the time and almost all came down on the side of MMR.
Ultimately only you can decide, not much help I know.

Although I am in general pro-MMR, I don't find the NHS sites very helpful - they're far too one-sided.