General Chat

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

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

i am a professional .ha ha :-D

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

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