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'Govenment to offer swine flu vaccinations to under-5s' Would you have your DCs vaccinated?

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Sallypuss · 19/11/2009 12:56

Saw this on the BBC website just now. Would you have your DCs vaccinated?

My first thought is no as I don't think we fully understand the side effects yet and it feels a bit of a knee jerk reaction by the government. My dd is 12 months old.

Apologies if this has been done to death on other threads....

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ArthurPewty · 19/11/2009 13:04

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TheCrackFox · 19/11/2009 13:04

It is on the news now. TBH, I am not sure. They said there are no serious side effects but I would like more details on what the non-serious side effects are. DS2 is 4.5 yrs but I am in two minds about it.

foxytocin · 19/11/2009 13:07

I am still recovering from (2 weeks' worth) of swine flu. Seeing how awful I have felt the last 2 wks I'd want to spare my dds this illness with the jab. Seeing that I am breastfeeding both dds at this time, I may pass up on it seeing I must have vaccinated them already.

LadyBlaBlah · 19/11/2009 13:07

Already had DS1 vaccinated. He has had no problems from the vaccine at all.

sarah293 · 19/11/2009 13:20

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ilovemydogandmrobama · 19/11/2009 13:21

absolutely not

littleoldme · 19/11/2009 13:51

me neither

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 19/11/2009 13:53

i will, I have had the vaccine and am fine, friends DD just had swine flu and was in hospital very ill for 10 days..

Bramshott · 19/11/2009 13:54

I think I would (will). The seasonal flu jab on which this is based has been used over many years, and I am not generally anti-vaccine. I can understand the relectance of many pregnant women, as there are no tests of the effects of vaccine on a fetus, but I think DD2 (2.7) will be having it.

EldonAve · 19/11/2009 14:03

mine won't be having it

Andalo · 19/11/2009 15:06

I really don't know, I wish I was confident about being able to find some truely independant advice on the vacinnation and possible side effects. Call me cynical but offering GP surgerys £5.75 per vaccine given is making it a money making scheme rather than a necessity. Surely if it does what it says people would be queuing up for it and surgeries would not need to be incentivised to get people to have it?
Then again I have seen the film Outbreak and if the government know something we don't I want the vaccine!

BelleDameSansMerci · 19/11/2009 15:13

There was a llinke earlier about giving diazepam to a four year old (sorry, don't know how to do the link thing). Prescribed for night terrors but they possibly started as reaction to swine flu virus. Made me v worried about possible side effects. Really not sure about this one.

BelleDameSansMerci · 19/11/2009 15:14

Sorry, I mean there was a "thread" earlier. Not very good with the MN terminology yet. Or spelling link, it would seem.

Disenchanted3 · 19/11/2009 15:16

Fucking hell, I have enough to worry about without having to make this descision,

LilRedWG · 19/11/2009 15:16

I think I would yes.

Louise2004 · 19/11/2009 15:22

No

MrsJohnDeere · 19/11/2009 15:24

Not without a lot more information about the side effects.

Bramshott · 19/11/2009 16:38

Yes, I read that too BelleDame, just after I posted on this thread. It was QuintessentialShadows thread here

Now I am less sure, and don't know what to think. Hopefully Littleshadows night hallucinations will go away very soon.

crokky · 19/11/2009 16:55

I'm not really sure.

DS (3.8) - I don't think so. I'm sure he's had it - it was diagnosed by a GP and all the symptoms were textbook.

DD (1.8) - I'm not sure. I'm worried she might be asthmatic, although she didn't catch swine flu from DS so I wonder how susceptable she actually is to it.

mrsshackleton · 19/11/2009 16:58

Mine will deffo have it, want to get on to the surgery and find out how soon
Flu is horrible

saltyseadog · 19/11/2009 17:03

Mine will definitely (dd is in a high risk group for flu anyway).

Having had the jab myself this week, and felt lousy for a six hour period 12 hours after the jab was give (GP warned me of this) it reminded me how completely incapacitated I would be if I caught the full-blown version.

Pinkglow · 19/11/2009 18:30

Yep mine will - I have had flu (not swine) and honestly I felt so terrible that nothing would make me want to see DS feeling like that.

PoppyIsApain · 19/11/2009 18:42

I dont think i will, im worried as they dont seem to of had enough time to do enough tests, My ds has such a bad chest all the time and gets bronchiolitus very regulary in the winter. He is currently upstairs asleep in his cot with a cold and a fever. I guess what im trying to say is i think he is very susceptable to getting swine flu and im worried that if i dont give him the jab i will live to regret it

Narketta · 19/11/2009 18:45

We really don't know what to do!

DS 3+9mths is asthmatic and even if he catches a normal cold its horrible.

We were informed on Monday that there is a swine flu outbreak at his playgroup and also at the infants school which is on the same grounds as the playgroup.

We are currently keeping him away from playgroup because he's had to have 2 lots of anti B's and steroids in the last 5 weeks because of a cold that turned into a chest infection.

We have spoken to our GP and he's all for giving DS the jab but i'm probably more scared of side effects from the jab than the swine flu.

SomeGuy · 19/11/2009 18:45

hmm, not sure I would, I am pro-vaccinations, but this swine flue stuff seems like a lot of bollocks to me.