General Chat

It has been discovered that our resistance to these childhood diseases does lessen with age, whether that was natural resistance because of having had the disease (like me), or because we were vaccinated.



It is now possible to have vaccination for Shingles, but only after the age of 60 ........ it is in fact a variation of the chickenpox vaccine given to children.

As most of us know, shingles is caused by the same virus as chicken-pox. If you have had chicken-pox, the virus hides itself in the neural sheath of a nerve somewhere in the body. It stays there quiescent, doing no harm. BUT later in life, something may cause the virus to react ...... stress often seems to be a causative factor.

Shingles is often very painful, and can be dangerous.

The vaccine boosts the antibodies remaining in the body, and helps to prevent Shingles. It is a one-time vaccination, and is quite expensive.



Suzanne ............


.......... it might be that the doctors and powers-that-be are realizing that resistance to mumps, measles and Rubella might be lessening with age

If you catch it from the children, you may in turn infect more children before you realise that you are infectious.


It could also be much worse for you if you do catch it.


Childhood diseases are often mild if you have them as a child ............... but are much worse if you don't get them until an adult.


My daughter had chicken-pox twice ......... a very mild case when she was about 6, after a "chicken-pox party" (remember those!!)

The second was when she was 21, and it was much worse for her. It also took longer for her to recover her strength afterwards.

Poor OH had her in one room feeling very sorry for herself, and me in the other bedroom having just had a lumpectomy (to be followed 2 weeks later by a mastectomy), and feeling very sorry for myself!

It was also very hard on daughter and myself ............ we both usually cuddled the other when feeling sick, yet I had to keep my distance from her until she was no longer infectious.


Working as you do with children, I would be very tempted to have the MMR.




sylvia

I personally would not have any medication, however apparently harmless, if I didn't think it necessary.

i am immune to rubella and ive had mumps and measels,but not had the bd test to prove it, dont know if im going to bother with the jab now.i cant get anything from the children i nurse and i cant give them anything,so why go though having the jab??

I believe you can be tested for immunity to rubella, then be vaccinated if you are not immune. Maybe this might be a way to go?

i am a professional .ha ha :-D

If you are worried, as always, take advice from the proffessionals............or hold out for single vaccines? ;-)

i would think at my age,it would be the kids infecting me lol
im in my late 40s ive had measels and mumps. :-D

There might be an age related lessening of your aquired immunity?? Mum, admittedly in her late 60's/early 70's, caught Mumps for the 2nd time in her life, from one of ours. Could you ask for a blood test to check yours?

Presumably its a new 'thing' to ensure that people working with children in certain settings , need to make sure they don't infect them with diseases brought in from out side.

thats what i cant under,stand,ive had measels and mumps
why do i need the MMR at my age?

When my children were young, there was no MMR, just a single vaccine for measles at 1 year, which both of mine had. They both contractes mumps and rubella before the age of 6. After MMR vaccine appeared in the mid 1980's, I was asked for my daughter to have it, but I refused on the grounds that she had either had the vaccine or the diseases. However I would have consented if it had been otherwise.

Suzanne this site might help :-)


http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/MMR/Pages/FAQs.aspx

I'm pro vaccination.

My daughter had autism way before the MMR came out. Her autism appears to be paternally genetic.

Quite often, the first signs of autism begin to show at the 18 month - 2 year stage.......just when the MMR is given.


Like others, I really don't want to see an epidemic of measles etc.

Cx.

Heres one ladies .......I,m really shocked

My son works in a dangerouse job and has to have all jabs up to date ...then they check with a bloody test and ...................no measles ????????

What the hell????

he had all his jabs in child hood not always at the time stated by the goverment but he had them and a red book to show he did

So wheres it gone??????

starting to have second thoughts :-D

I don't want to get in on this debate ! but can I just mention egg allergy?

"Egg allergy and the MMR vaccine
The MMR vaccine is made using a protein related to egg. However, evidence shows that it’s safe to give the vaccine to nearly all children, even those who have a very severe reaction to eggs.

If your child has a severe egg allergy, let your GP or nurse know. He or she can make special arrangements to give your child the MMR vaccine safely, in hospital if necessary."

Both boys had MMR jabs in the 1990's , no side effects
They ran out of TB jabs so eldest didn.t get his... youngest did
Looking at the consequences, if these innoculations were not made , I am all for them

The most worrying thing about these scares is that some parents are refusing to have their children immunised at all.

The loss of a child is one of the worst things you can imagine, when it is because of a preventable illness like measles it is unforgivable.

The Autistic Spectrum is large with many variants, many symptoms not becoming apparent till the child is older.

The question is:

Was the child Autistic before being given the MMR vaccine?

will look at this site muffy,as im due to have the MMR nextwk :-D

My eldest fitted after her first Whooping cough injection, and consequently didn't have the full course. We never took up the school injections for her, with the exception of TB, prefering to go to the GP to discuss the risks with him.

She was at Secondary school when the MMR was introduced, by which time she had survived Mumps and Measles and consequently was opted out. Can't remember what happened about the Rubella!

As she would be the one to introduce the diseases into the household, I lived in dread that either she would contract whooping cough as a young child, or affect her younger siblings before they could be 'protected'. As it happens, they received the MMR at school at a much older age, when their bodies were strong enough to cope. By this time, one of them had caught and recovered from Mumps which she had first. We did teach them to 'share' :-D

Agree Sylvia, when my children were due to have their whooping cough injections all the controversy was going around as to the dangers, one day I decided I would have it, next day would read an article and would decide against. I asked doctor and he would not commit one way or other, just saying it was my choice.

In the end I decided against it, and yes you guessed they caught whooping cough. Eldest could cope but middle daughter who was only 3 nearly died. Doctor said well I had my son vaccinated, wish he had said before.

When youngest daughter was about 1 a health care nurse said have her vaccinated, by then they realized so many were not having the jab so I went with the flow, was I pleased, she never caught it.

Carol