Preschool injections help please...

[charliecat]

I have an appointment for my dd(4) tommorow. Is this the appointment where they get a jab in each arm and the sugar thingy?
Ta

Its probably the mmr booster (which I chose not to give to my two ds's) and the dpt and polio.

I opted for mine to just have the dpt and polio.

we are having this on Monday. Have been told it's one jab (think it's called repevax) of dtp+polio and one jab of MMR booster (which we don't need as we've had it already).

Thats what I thought and thats what im planning to do too. Thank You!

OMG they are mixing more things together? FFS thats a bit daft isnt it? AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
I have already cancelled this appointment 3x and id finally got my head round taking her for the everything but the MMR...ARRGGGHHHHH

It's 2 separate jabs....one for the dtp+polio and one for the MMR. Sorry if my post confused you!

My reasons for not letting them have the mmr booster were, that after doing a bit of research, the mmr booster is only to catch the 5% of children who did not get immunity from the first time around, so we decided against.

Yep got that...so where did the sugar cube come into it...thought that was on the cube?

polio..i mean

I don't think they do it like that anymore (the sugar cube I mean)

oh god ok....ta!

sugar cube was for the live polio. Now they use dead polio- its in the jab. no more sugar cubes (strange as thats an early childhood memory for me!)

Me too JJ!

Nurse didnt blink when I said can i just have the one thats not the MMR please and dd watched and didnt sigh scream take a deep breath or anything. Glad its all over now!