Vaccinations

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Hi I'm due to get my LO 8 week vaccinations but I'm in 2 minds about the rotavirus live vaccination that they give your baby which is taken orally. I have heard of a few peoples babies getting really unwell after taking it and one case where baby started having absent seizures . It's my first baby and I obviously don't want to stop her from getting any vaccinations which are good however I'm all for the vaccines we had when we were younger but rotavirus vaccine was only just introduced in July 2013 so it's a fairly new vaccination and not one we would have been given when I was a baby :( any help or advice would be appreciated and if you can tell me about any experiences of how your baby was after their 8 week jabs. Many thanks x

It’s fine

Its fine, Has any of the advice you have heard been in a scientific journal or from a medical professional?

Thats the advice to pay attention to, not your friends sisters auntie from down the road.

Unless you have been told by a medical professional that your child has an underline risk that means they should wait to have the vaccine, give them the vaccine.

Don't listen to the anecdotal tales listen to the hard medical evidence.

Trust me, any side effects from the vaccinations dwarf the impact of the illnesses they prevent, which could kill your baby. Ten years is also not new, and vaccinations are ridiculously well vetted. The safest thing to do by far is give your baby the miracle of modern medicine.

Your baby is much more likely to become seriously ill from diarrhoea/vomiting from a rotavirus than they are to develop absence seizures from the vaccine - assuming that there is a causal link there, and that it's not a coincidence.

To counteract the things you've heard, the only effect it had on my kids was to give them all-pervading, super-eggy stink-bomb shits for a day or so. Took ages for the smell to dissipate. Horrific. But much better than ending up hospitalised for dehydration!