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The MMR coffee morning
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My worry is my ten-month-old daughter has had two bouts of gastro-enteritis, one lot meant a stay in hospital, the second lot was campylobacter. I am concerned that this means she will be at risk [of] more of a side effect. I know we have time to think about it and know the facts but should we insist on waiting an extra month, say? I have heard that the single vaccine may not be so effective and only means three stabs of a needle against one, and even in a single vaccine they get the MMR all in one dose, just three times. I just want to know the risk of having MMR after a gastric history and milk protein intolerance. I intend to immunise: measles is a killer, and causes many problems, rubella is well known to cause problems and mumps is just as bad.
Dr Howard Lee:Awareness is right. When you are about to consider a further 'clinically engineered insult' on the immune system. As you say there are more likely to be evident links when there are possible pre-existing changes going on in a little one's auto-immune system. This is just the point. I, too, would be very aware of giving a further possible problem to the system. You have, I feel, made the correct decision - measles not only causes death, it more often causes much long-lasting morbidity.
My worry is my ten-month-old daughter has had two bouts of gastro-enteritis, one lot meant a stay in hospital, the second lot was campylobacter. I am concerned that this means she will be at risk [of] more of a side effect. I know we have time to think about it and know the facts but should we insist on waiting an extra month, say? I have heard that the single vaccine may not be so effective and only means three stabs of a needle against one, and even in a single vaccine they get the MMR all in one dose, just three times. I just want to know the risk of having MMR after a gastric history and milk protein intolerance. I intend to immunise: measles is a killer, and causes many problems, rubella is well known to cause problems and mumps is just as bad.
Dr Howard Lee:Awareness is right. When you are about to consider a further 'clinically engineered insult' on the immune system. As you say there are more likely to be evident links when there are possible pre-existing changes going on in a little one's auto-immune system. This is just the point. I, too, would be very aware of giving a further possible problem to the system. You have, I feel, made the correct decision - measles not only causes death, it more often causes much long-lasting morbidity.
Brit2001: I have a special needs child of my own with some autistic traits. I have had contact with many autistic children and parents. Although these children tend to get diagnosed with autism around two, usually mums are aware that their child is 'different' early on they do not follow a normal pattern of behaviour. What concerns me is the fact that some children who have had the MMR had no problems previously and then appear to acquire autism/autistic traits overnight. This does not appear to be a normal pattern of autism, more like 'something' has triggered it. As highlighted on the Panorama programme.
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