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Side effects of the teenage 3-in-1 booster??

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saladdays66 · 05/02/2018 07:42

Has your teen had the 3 in 1 polio/tetanus/typhoid booster, plus the meningitis vacc?

Did they have side effects? A lot of dd’s friends have had it and they all been sick - vomiting - afterwards, plus high temps, sore arm, off school.

Why does a vaccine cause vomiting? Now dd is really worried about it. Can anyone reassure me? (Emetophobe here)

Plus they’re having it on the last day of term and dd does not want to be ill over half term...

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JellySlice · 05/02/2018 07:51

Neither of mine were ill after theirs. Both had a sore arm, one felt a little fluey and took a paracetamol. Both were at school the following day, doing PE etc. Over the years my dc have reacted in various ways to various imms, but none of them have ever vomitted as a result.

If several kids from the same place are vomiting at around the same time, then it seems likely to be a D&V bug. Just bad luck that it swept through at the same time as imms were being given.

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saladdays66 · 05/02/2018 07:56

I thought it could be an unrelated d&v bug too. Thanks, Jelly.

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Wh0KnowsWhereTheT1meG0es · 05/02/2018 08:34

Mine had stiff arms and was off colour for a couple of days. No sickness.

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saladdays66 · 05/02/2018 11:06

Thanks. Very odd.

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PersianCatLady · 05/02/2018 11:20

Mine had stiff arms and was off colour for a couple of days. No sickness
So much better than the short term and long term effects of any one of the diseases the booster protects against.

I think because people don't see the diseases any more in society, they forget just how serious they are and just what an amazing thing vaccinations are.

moochypooch · 05/02/2018 14:08

Mine had a high temp that evening but felt well enough to go to school the next day but she said she still felt a bit iffy. Her arm was painful.

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saladdays66 · 05/02/2018 14:19

Oh, I know, PersianCat, that the side effects are much better than the illnesses - but dd is (a) worried because so many of her friends have been sick afterwards and (b) she's not happy that she might be ill in the holidays!

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TeenTimesTwo · 05/02/2018 14:22

Better than dying from meningitis though.

Mary21 · 05/02/2018 17:09

The booster is Diptheria , tetanus and polio not typhoid, and meningitis achy, introduced because of the increase in deaths in teenagers from meningitis W.
Usual side effects sore arm, feeing under weather, headache and possible fever. No usually enough to stop you from doing things

Mary21 · 05/02/2018 17:11

That should read meningitis ACWY not achy autocorrect !

MirandaWest · 05/02/2018 17:11

Mine has his a couple of weeks ago. One of the injections left his arm sore for a couple of days but that was it

Newscoliosismum · 05/02/2018 17:13

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lljkk · 05/02/2018 19:54

There's a teacher at DC school who lost 2 brothers to meningitis. There are fundraisers & the kids at the school have all heard his brothers' stories a few times. Strangely enough, I haven't heard of any severe side effects from the mere jab.

The girls always get a bit hysterical about the HPV ones. The mengtis ones seem to be non-events in comparison.

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saladdays66 · 05/02/2018 22:58

No ‘hysteria’ here about the HPV vaccination, lljkk, I was asking about the Td/IPV vax. Hmm

Christ, I know that meningitis is worse than the vaccination; I have not said differently. I have just asked about side effects that have been reported!

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scaevola · 05/02/2018 23:09

I don't know why this jab would cause nausea to vomiting, but it is listed on the pack information leaflet as a common side effect.

High temperature and soreness around site of injection are listed as very common side effects.

So yes, it could happen. I don't think it did for my teens (so far) - the only jab I remember them having side effects from, was (for two of them) the pre-school boosters.

TheSecondOfHerName · 05/02/2018 23:34

I coordinate these vaccinations (year group of 180 girls) as part of my job, and I help with the aftercare. We also follow up any illness absence within the next few days.

DTP/MenACWY:
Lots of: low-grade fever (

TheSecondOfHerName · 05/02/2018 23:37

One or two kids vomiting in a year group could be a reaction to the immunisation. If a lot of kids were vomiting then the most likely explanation is a vomiting virus that was going around at the same time as they had the immunisation.

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saladdays66 · 06/02/2018 07:43

That's interesting and reassuring, Second. I read the pack info - it said that nausea/vomiting were common side effects - affecting between 1 in 100 and 1 in 10 people who have the jab.

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lljkk · 06/02/2018 19:19

That's good your girls are sensible. DD's lot got pretty overwrought, lots of tears and wailing while the stood in line for the HPV. She went around hugging the others & being motherly, telling them to be brave.

The real number could be 1 in 99 with 10% error bars (so 1 in 100 to 1 in 98 is observed), but there's a EU-standard way to report which means the side effects have to be reported in a preset range, like the range you wrote: 1 in 100 to 1 in 10.

specialsubject · 06/02/2018 19:53

While no vaccine is 100% safe ( because nothing is) sounds like a bit of education about the diseases would help bring any side effects into proportion.

And a lesson in causation and correlation.

moochypooch · 06/02/2018 20:04

Dd was quite dizzy too. She is needle phobic so I took her to the Gp's to have it done, as I always do....we had lots of upset. She really wanted to have the vaccine, she just really didn't want to have 2 needles.

NaughtyNoraTheNamechanger · 06/02/2018 22:44

I had it... and I wasn't ill at all. Arm was agony though so painkillers will probably be necessary.

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saladdays66 · 10/02/2018 08:49

So dd had the jabs yesterday. She woke about midnight last night with a fever and shivering violently. Felt sick and dizzy all night.

Today her right arm is hot and has hard lump round injection site - but she feels ok apart from that. Hopefully that will be it...

Apparently 3 girls in her class fainted, one was repeatedly sick immediately after the jabs, one developed a sudden fever, there were tears...

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BillywilliamV · 10/02/2018 08:51

My DD said she felt ill but far tpo soon after injection for true reaction in my opinion. I gave her paracetamol

JellySlice · 10/02/2018 09:29

In my school there was one girl, K, who always had her jabs with a younger yeargroup, because she would faint or throw up at the jab session every year. So she'd be deferred until the next year.

When we lined up outside the medical room, about half the class could fit into the corridor at once, the rest were lined up on the landing. After a couple of years they noticed a pattern. Kids were most likely to throw up or faint when K was also waiting in the corridor (and her stress-level rising). The kids who had been in the corridor at the same time as K were also more likely to be off school with side-effects the following day.

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