Rotavirus Vaccine

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I'm FTM and my sons 8 week vaccines are soon and I'm considering rejecting the rotavirus vaccine (accepting 6-1 and men b).

Reasons being:

The nhs website stating that most children that get it recover at home within a week. So the rotavirus itself being relatively mild and not a danger to life.

The effectiveness of vaccine - as I know vaccines are not 100% effective but the data on this particular vaccine seems that it is less effective than others.

not wanting to overload their immune system.

Baby is breastfed so this offers some protection and eases recovery if they do get it.

I'm not anti vax by any means and will be accepting all other vaccines but haven't heard of rotavirus one before and my sisters little boy didn't have it when he was born in 2015.

Just after some advice really on whether I should get it or not and if anyone else said no to it?

My baby got rotavirus at 14 months and she was hospitalised on a drip. It’s really awful.

Thank you for the advice everyone! We will be going ahead with the rotavirus vaccine as many of you have suggested.

Our DD had a little reaction to the rotavirus vaccine ( upset tummy for a day) but it was better than actually having it for a week or longer.

The nhs website stating that most children that get it recover at home within a week. So the rotavirus itself being relatively mild and not a danger to life
What if your child is not "most children"?
Most people don't get Covid, but we all have the vaccine

The effectiveness of vaccine - as I know vaccines are not 100% effective but the data on this particular vaccine seems that it is less effective than others
So what? It still reduces the chances of being ill

not wanting to overload their immune system
Honestly? You won't overload your child's immune system!

Baby is breastfed so this offers some protection and eases recovery if they do get it
The baby won't be breast fed for ever though.

I'm not anti vax by any means and will be accepting all other vaccines but haven't heard of rotavirus one before
If you're not anti vax, why wouldn't you just get the vaccine? The NHS don't give them out for fun. It's so strapped for cash it's not going to give any vaccine unless it thinks it's important.

I’ve worked on a paeds ward and we used to see loads of rotavirus infections admitted for dehydration etc. It’s horrible and I’ll never forget the smell of those nappies. I don’t understand if you can try and stop that why you wouldn’t?

As someone posted above, our then 3mo got the vaccine and avoided a really bad bout of norovirus we all had. It was godsent because I was so sick I would be in hospital had they not diverted the ambulance to a wrong place. Please get your child vaccinated, it's not overloading their immune system, it may save you a lot of worry later on.