1 year old vaccines

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My daughter is due her 1 year old vaccines soon and i am debating if to let her have the MMR vaccine as i haven't heard great things about it and have had family member react to the MMR vaccine.

Please no nasty comments but wanted to see how many other children have had it done and if they had any reactions.

Thank you

Reacted in what way?
I look up the long term issues from measles, mumps and rubella eg meningitis, blindness, infertility in males, Encephalitis, in pregnancy- miscarriage and disability in the baby.

Both my kids had both doses and are both fine
Have you heard untrue scaremongering stories by any chance?

You cant get the vaccines singly so you're better off getting the MMR

How would you feel if your child contracted an illness you knew you could have prevented?

yes sometimes people react to vaccines, no medication or vaccine is 100% safe but it is considerably safer than the illness they are protecting against.

My oldest had a series of temperatures and rashes. Nothing serious but irritating.

My brother never got his mmr and is deaf in one ear due to mumps as a teenager

My uncle had mumps as a child and had brain swelling, has had life long learning difficulties as a result. A cousin had rubella and it stunted her growth as a child, she's tiny as an adult and also has learning difficulties. Both were in the sixties so went through life just labelled as less intelligent or worse.

Andrew Wakefield was discredited for his claims about the dangers of MMR vaccines.

The threat of measles, mumps and rubella remains high, as do the complications of contracting these preventable diseases.

My dc have had both doses and apart from usual irritability were fine after a few days.

What 'reaction' did your family member experience? Are you planning to pay for the individual vaccines?

Unfortunately you can’t get individual vaccines anymore for all of MMR. The OP is faced with vaccinating or not.

Sorry OP, I should have mentioned, both my children had all the standard NHS vaccines including MMR. No side effects except a temperature for a few hours which was easily managed with calpol.

You cant get individual vaccines as they aren't produced now.

Ah, not even privately? I'm going back a few years now and one of my friends was completely spooked by the Wakefield stuff so paid out to get them privately, was 6 jabs in all, spaced out over 3 months - her kid was traumatised by the end of them!

"Please no nasty comments."

Do you want people to lie to you? The MMR is safe and protects your child against horrible diseases. I'm guessing you're too young to know anyone who is horribly disfigured by their mother getting rubella when she was pregnant or men whose fertility has been affected by mumps.

I'm not.

The only reason you don't know anyone impacted by these hideous diseases is because of the vaccine programme.

Get your child vaccinated.

Mumps vaccines is no longer available in the UK.

What 'not great' things have you heard, and who from?

Andrew Wakefield has been completely discredited. So many scientists have investigated his claims and found no evidence.

Sometimes people do react to vaccines, like any medication. Some people even react to paracetamol, yet I bet you take that. It's very rare to have a reaction, but that's the chance you take for protection from some very nasty diseases.

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I still got my eldest vaccinated, when the Wakefield came out with his rubbish. She was and is fine after she had her jabs back then.

You're going to have to be a bit clearer with the "not great things" and "reacted to" I think.

Measles and mumps etc are on the increase and if you're concerned about the minuscule chance of a "reaction" to the MMR, you should be a lot more concerned about how they'll fare with any of those diseases.

Have you heard "great things" about catching measles, mumps or rubella? Because last time I checked they can cause lasting disabilities or death.

I can't fathom how any parent would risk their child getting a deadly disease like measles over some anti vax bollocks.

Second similar thread in a few days.

MMR prevents serious diseases.

I've got close family members with life long issues resulting from mumps and measles.

Andrew Wakefield was discredited for his claims about the dangers of MMR vaccines

Because of that muppet my well-educated parents who should have known better decided not to vaccinate me or my brother. We both caught whooping cough and spent an entire summer holiday extremely unwell. He ended up with lifelong asthma as a result and me with weak lungs.

Ironically this was because they were scared vaccines would "make us autistic" 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 but both of us are autistic anyway, as we always were even at the time they decided this and have been with or without vaccines because that's how our brains have been structured since before we were even born, like all other autistic people.

So now we have lung problems and autism. Fun. We were lucky it wasn't one of the more serious diseases we contracted, that could have killed us or ruined our lives completely.

Get your children vaccinated OP. There's a reason why child mortality is far lower now than it was in previous generations and that is because of vaccines.

This. Look at the data. Make your judgement based on factual data and relative risks. It's not a difficult decision if you take five minutes to look this up.

It’s safe and effective. Our children had theirs at the time of/in the wake of Wakefield. He was driven by personal profit and caused misery for many children with his lies.

The statistics are all published online by the NHS and health providers in other countries.

While we're at it, it's a disgrace that the NHS are using children as human shields for adults and subjecting them to chicken pox still for no reason so if you have enough money vaccines your children against chicken pox too, as well as having the NHS MMR. It's been part of the standard vaccine programme in the US, Germany and elsewhere for decades now. Chicken pox still kills children every year in the UK needlessly.

No MMR here but now they'er older I am debating it.

Personally feel 1 yr old is far too young to have that much put into them - bearing in mind it's exactly the same amount whether the child is a baby or a 10 stone teenager. Even the amount of calpol you can safely take depends on age/weight so to me, it makes no sense that it's the same syringe for everyone.

However, that's mainly because my brother was damaged (NHS acknowledged before anyone jumps on) by the MMR vaccine. Caused brain damage and lasting learning difficulties. There is always a risk - however small - with any vaccine.

I don't believe the vaccine per se is too dangerous - more that there's too much in one to be given. They really should have left them as 3 separate vaccines that you could space out.

Yesterday's anti - vax thread about the MMR was deleted.
I expect this will go the same way.
So much wide-eyed 'have heard bad things "
We all did love, and they were all lies.