"Doctors are giving the MMR jab 'by stealth'"

[coppertop]

Don't want to start up an mmr debate but just wondered if anyone else saw this in the Daily Mail yesterday. Some doctors have been calling children in for the Hib booster and 'accidentally' giving MMR instead. Very worrying.

i had rubella my dear sister. how can u forget me ruining a family holiday

Glad to hear you have such a good doc Jimjams - it does make a huge difference. Mine is great but I do know part of the reason she listens to me (and mainly goes along with me) is that I am from medical family and she can't be seen to be contradicting a colleague! Did you find things improved when you moved away from London? (you did live there but are now in Devon?? IIRC???) Rural docs generally have more time for patients and therefore have higher patient satisfaction!

Did you, misdee????

yeah, i got it on the final days of the family holiday to skeggy, when i was about 9 or 10. it was mistaken for heat rash at first, but then it changed from my usual rash to places like my face, tops of shoulders and back. docs on campsite said it was rubella. i was kept in the chalet for the last day, and we ended up leaving a day early. didnt make me feel too ill but got another week of school because of it. hehe

oh yea i remember, log into MSN

yes boss

TBH susanmt- my GP in London was pretty good as well. Although we're in Devon we're in a city, so the GP now isn't really rural. He is good though.

Mieow,

I agree with MMR too (but not with doctors giving it by stealth). Heard a report on the news the other day indicating that the take up rate for MMR is only 75% in Dublin and accordingly they have reported several measles deaths since year 2000.

Also note that one of the researchers who jointly published the single ( I think there is / was only one authoritative report suggesting a MMR and autism link?), has recently gone on record as saying that he is now satisfied that there is no causal link between MMR and autism. I hope this makes parents with doubts about MMR a bit more reassured.

I hope your niece recovered okay from her measles? That's my worry exactly i.e. that the 'too young to be immunised' under 12 month olds are being put at risk by the drop in take up rate for MMR. There was a suspected measles case at dd's nursery a while ago - I was so relieved that she had received her MMR 3 weeks previously and I would have been scared to death (and feeling quite murderous) if she hadn't.

(although I'm not completely insensitive - I can understand the reluctance of parents with autistic children to get subsequent children immunised)