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Anyone's DD had the Y8 cervical cancer jab?

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bigTillyMint · 10/10/2011 13:44

Just had a series of texts from DD who says she is feeling sick and dizzy having just had it at school - she never usually gets ill after jabs, but apparently there are 15 of them in sick bay!

Just had the call to ask if I can pick her up.....

Has anyone elses DD had this sort of reaction? I think they have to have 2 follow-up jabs....

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PestoCoffinisto · 10/10/2011 13:46

My DD2 had her first one last week, but t'was fine. Don't think any of 'em had a reaction. The nurse did give her the leaflet from the vaccine however, which explains what it is and any contra-indications. So when your DD comes home you could have a read through and if necessary you could ring your GP and have a word with them.

IShallWearMidnight · 10/10/2011 13:49

don't discount the effect of however many other 12/13 year old girls winding each other up about how horrendous it all is and how they ALWAYS faint/throw up when within 100 yards of a needle, blah blah blah.

But, yes, there should be a leaflet, and maybe also something on the nHS direct website?

Wiseoldself · 10/10/2011 13:50

My DD had this last week, she was fine but she did say that there were lots of hysterical girls at school crying, fainting and generally being dramatic but thats girls for you!

I'm not saying your DD is making it up though, she could feel ill, or it could just be that they are all winding each other up.

Wiseoldself · 10/10/2011 13:51

Ha! IShallWearMidnight - crossed posts!

PestoCoffinisto · 10/10/2011 13:52

Just fished out the package leaflet from my post rack.

DD2's jab was called Cervarix and it does list as one of the common (side effects which may occur in less than 1 per 10 but more than 1 per 100 doses of the vaccine) as gastro-intestinal symptoms including nausea & vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain.

HTH

melancholista · 10/10/2011 13:55

Dd didn't have the jab. A few others in her year declined it as well.

seeker · 10/10/2011 13:57

Dd was very that evening, but otherwise fine. There was a lot of winding each other up, and people feeing "faint". Dd, who is in her way a bit of a tough nut said she had guessed in advance ho would faint......

seeker · 10/10/2011 13:58

Tired is the missing word.

And I cannot imagine why anyone would refuse this vaccination.

melancholista · 10/10/2011 14:10

Telegraph article.

bruffin · 10/10/2011 14:13

DD just had a sore arm, but reported there was a lot of winding up going on and a bit of mass histeria. DD's drama queen friend had to be taken home, but she goes to another school.

seeker · 10/10/2011 14:23

That telegraph article says nothing. A girl who is ill, and who's mother has decided that illness is due to the vaccine, and a "report" listing side effects. Who compiled the report?

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bigTillyMint · 10/10/2011 14:24

So many replies!

Yes, I agree, there seems to have been a huge amount of hysteria - she was already expecting the worst before school today thanks to all the drama-queens amongst her friendsHmm

She says she felt hot, dizzy, like she was going to throw up and is now in her bed Wink

Apparently 4 girls were throwing up, others suffering from headaches... Lots of parents picking up at the same time as me, and quite a few were her friends' parents - all out of 80 or so girls.

Cynical, moi?

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ElaineReese · 10/10/2011 14:25

Mine did, she was fine, though she whimpered a bit!

There is a lot of ratcheting up the ow ow ow my poor arm bit, though - seen it with dd and with the girls where I worked.

Hope your dd is ok.

GetOrfMo1Land · 10/10/2011 14:28

DD had it last year at the surgery (she missed it at school due to transfering schools at the time). no side effects at all, i am glad she didn't have it at school as girls that age wind each other up.

Did anyone else have the BCg jab at school and remember all the hysteria caused by the daisy prick? Grin

notjustme · 10/10/2011 14:30

We dealt with this by being quite matter of fact about it - DD2 complained about her arm hurting etc etc, so we popped a couple of painkillers into her and carried on with life, she got over it within about...ooooh....5 minutes. [hmmm]

It was exactly the same when I was at school as it is now - there's always someone crying/fainting/wailing/refusing/running away that winds up the rest of them.

There was no doubt in this house that DD2 was having the jab, and I haven't yet read anything that is factual enough to make me think otherwise about any future children having it either. All I've read so far is the usual scare mongering stories and absolutely no scientific evidence to back it up.

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bigTillyMint · 10/10/2011 14:39

Yes, yes GetOrf - was just telling DD about it on the way homeGrin

We are very matter-of-fact about everything in this house and I was already telling her this morning about how perhaps some girls were exaggerating how bad it was....
However, her Ddad faints (no kidding) at the sight of a needle, so maybe she's inherited the wimp-gene from him. Although this is the first time I've seen any sign of it in 12+ years!

TBH, I think she is realising they were perhaps being a leetle hysterical.....

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melancholista · 10/10/2011 15:53

I think the government is likely to replace Cervarix with Gardasil, so this is quite probably the last year of Cervarix. There's a review of Cervarix underway.

Obviously you can't mix the two, though.

cory · 11/10/2011 09:27

Dd had no reaction, but I do remember whole classes of us psyching ourselves into near fainting when having blood tests at school; it was considered rather uncorteous to suggest that actually you didn't mind.

Dd's class doesn't seem to do that so much.

PowderMum · 21/10/2011 21:59

Older DD had this in Y8, DD2 has had her 1st jab this term.
They are at an all girls school and there were girls fainting and making a fuss throughout the whole day.
I am sure some were unlucky and did have side effects the rest were just reacting to the hysteria that a group of girls can create

ByTheSea · 21/10/2011 22:01

My DD had the jab a couple of weeks ago and was fine. She said several of her friends had sore arms though.

unitarian · 22/10/2011 01:59

DD had her vaccinations as an older teen, aged 17, in the catch-up programme. She had a very sore arm on the second jab and was quite poorly for a couple of days. No regrets about having it though. It's a wonderful breakthough for that generation of young women.

It was done at the GPs and I'm surprised they're doing this in school because I'm told they have stopped doing TB jabs in schools.

I found that out because we needed to provide a full vaccination history for her when she started university. The GP provided a list with precise dates but the TB wasn't listed. This was because that one had been done in school and there was no record of it.

I eventually obtained proof through a very complicated channel. The Child Health Service held the records and I was told that vaccinations done in school just aren't notified to GPs.

Be warned - keep your own record of when and where it was done for future reference.

mumto2andnomore · 23/10/2011 18:13

My DD had the jab last week and was fine at the time but a couple of hours later felt dizzy and had to sit down for a while. She is very level headed and not hysterical at all so Im sure it was genuine. Was surprised no one at school even told me she'd nearly passed out.

Still very glad she's had it.

cat64 · 25/10/2011 00:41

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mathanxiety · 30/10/2011 04:43

All of my DDs except DD4 (10) have had Gardasil and DS will be having that too. The DDs' arms were sore but no other side effects. They had it done at the doctor's office.

I remember having the rubella jab in school and the associated drama was quite a spectacle.

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