Quick straw poll.....please read

[alexsmum]

I have to make a decision by tomorrow on whether or not to give my son the mmr jab.
My gut instinct is not to.His father wants him to have it.

SO ...what do you think?

yes or no?

[Gobbledigook]

It's got to be your own decision but both have mine have had MMR and ds3 will have it too.

Would be more wary if autoimmunity in the family but we don't have anything like that so it never really worried me.

[Twiglett]

It has to be your decision

Don't think it makes any difference but DS had singles and now he's 4 I'm actually considering having MMR as a booster

DD had the mercury free primaries and I am also considering MMR for her

I don't have family history of autism .. but have family link to Chrons (in that DH has an auto-immune disease which is lumped in with Chrons as a family of illnesses even though his affects joints and not bowels) which is why I was nervous of MMR, but the more I see the more I wonder whether it was the thimerosal in primaries that was the villain with the MMR tipping over some children

Its tough isn't it

[albert]

No, if you are unable to make a decision that should be an answer in itself. You can always have the MMR later if you want to but if you decide yes now, you can never take that decision back. I didn't take MMR for DS although he had the measels vaccine later. I was under huge pressure to take it, especially since DH works for the World Health Organisation which fully suuports it, but IMO there is no smoke without fire.

[bubbly1973]

how did it go today, did you decide what to do?

hope what ever you decided you are okay with your decision xxx

[alexsmum]

Thank you all for your replies. As you all know I was not going to base my decision on the poll , I really wanted to know what decisions other people came to, if everyone was as foggy as us or whether most people had confidence in the jab.

ANYWAY, we had him immunised with mmr today.

We have been seeing his immunologist since my ds1 was approx 5 months old.He's now 5 y/o. He has done everything he can to help us, and I really trust him. If ds2 was going to have singles, I wanted him to give them.His aftercare is second to none . He gave ds1 his singles.Unfortunately he can't obtain the singles anymore.
After more discussion with him today, we decided to go for it. It's not an ideal situation but I think I have made the best decision I could make at the time , given the circumstances.
I have his doctors mobile number, and a follow-up appointment booked. I'm just going to have to keep a close eye on him.
We have lots of allergies in our family and both the boys have eczema( which has been severe in the past), dh has asthma and eczema.

[Ags]

Sounds like you made a very informed decision. Well done. It is so tough - too much information sometimes and too little other times!!!

[bubbly1973]

alexsmum, glad you were able to make a decision, thanks for letting us know

[Socci]

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