MMR single jabs

[milkmummy1]

did anyone have these done instead of the combined jabs? ive heard different things and really dont know what to do....
some have said to have the single jabs and others have said to put off the MMR until at least 16 months so they are strong enough for it... but then i still worry about the links with autism.
any advice please? just want to do whats best for my 13 month old.
Thanks

There is no link with autism.
I belive MMR to be the best protection available for my dd (11 mths). She will have it, as did her sisters.

You will doubtless get many people posting about how there is a conspiracy etc etc - my view is - MMR is safe. Measles, Mumps and Ruebella are all terrible diseases with the potential to wreck havoc in your family and the community.

I too will be opting for the MMr for dd2 as I did for dd1. I am also pretty sure that the single vaccs are not licenced in this country either so imo the MMR is the best option.

NO conspiracy. No conclusive research proving safety either. I think it's fairly obvious by now it's safe for the majority, but no evidence that there isn't a rare idiosyncratic response in some children.

If you want to know more I'd recommend Richard Halvorsen's book the truth about vaccinations. He's an NHS GP and spends lots of chapters covering the ins and outs of the MMR. It;s paperback, cheap and well referenced.

The non- licensing is because the drugs companies haven't applied for licenses btw. (The Dept of Health told me that back in 2002).

I've given mine singles, you have to pay privately for them though. they cost us about £360 or thereabouts for all 3.

Why have they not applied for the licences? Surely it is in their interest to do so? I wonder why they dont apply.

Presumably they want to sell MMR. Weird though I agree.But I wrote to the Dept of Health ranting about them refusing a license and they wrote back to say they hadn't - that the old ones had expired and the companies hadn't applied for new ones but were welcome to do so. In the meantime the vaccines could be imported on a named patient basis.

Actually I think it was in 2001. I copied out the reply on here quite recently so if you search on my name you might find it.

Bizarre! Thanks for that....

I really would pay for the single jabs if i thought they were safest, but obviously there is the risk of DS getting something horrible like measles in the mean time. what is the latest then about the theory with the autism link?

The latest theory is as confused as ever. It's definitely safe for the majority - may have caused regression in about 7% of autism cases. The single jabs do appear to work slightly better than the MMR though.

Really I'd recommend the Halvorsen book he can go into all of it.

Pretty sure it has been discredited. there was someting recently in the news about it saying that there really was no link.

If it helps the vaccine now used in the UK is theone that has been used on Canada for a mumber of years and researchedthoroughly there there is no evidence of an increase in autism. My DS has had the mmr and so will any subsequent children. M< M and R are dangerous potentially fatal diseases (a child died in north London earlier this year from measles)

healthchoiceuk are the clinic we have used twice. ds2 hasn't had any vaccines yet, but if we do vaccinate we would use them again.

The recent paper reported in the news didn't address Wakefiled's hypothesis. It showed that MMR is safe for the majority of children and hasn't ((or is unlikely to have) triggered autism in a bunch of children that didn't have the symptoms that Wakefield reported (In other words another complete waste of time).

Thanks. I had mumps 3 years ago, it was awful, so painful. made me realise that is is still doing the rounds......