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Has MMR damaged our children?
Oddly, there were no posts wholeheartedly in favour of MMR - though there is still no hard evidence that the combined jab can damage children, and problems are statistically far less likely than complications of measles itself
shaz2001: My baby will not be having the MMR. I don't mind him having the jabs separately, but not together.
This is because my older two boys are both autistic. I don't think the MMR affected Thomas, the elder one, but David was a very advanced baby. He crawled at five months, was starting to talk, and was perfectly normal. When he had the MMR, he just seemed to stop talking and doing all the things he had learnt.
He is now seven and he goes to a special school. We don't think he will ever be able to leave home, get married or even have a job. Luckily, my youngest is fine but I won't risk another of my children going through the things I see David going through each day.
I think the government should let children who are at greater risk (ie, those with siblings who have autism) have the injections separately.
They have to do something soon because to stop an outbreak you need 95 per cent cover, and in some parts of the country it's only 75 per cent.
When you hear people say that you need to spread the single injections out over a period of weeks or months, that is not true - there is no reason why they could not be given over a period of say one week.
emmankatie: This is such a difficult choice to make; I personally am very worried. I already had suspicions about the link between MMR and Katie's problems, just because she was a happy, alert baby and already had about ten words by the time she had MMR. I sat watching the lady with twin boys on Panorama and was horrified because she was telling my story, even down to her boys getting a rash every time they were ill.
I'm not a scientist, just a mum with an awful gut feeling about this. My advice would be to seek out the single vaccine.
One other thing, as well - the doctor who has voiced his concerns about this had no vested interests; in fact I believe he lost his job over it. I wonder if the same can be said for the research paid for by drug companies disproving a link.
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