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Need some serious answers please. my daughter was due to have her MMR  jabs around 9 months ago but me and the wife cant decide if she should have them or not as we keep getting contradictory information.

Any of you people with your heads full of knowledge have any thoughts on this?

I had it and look how I turned out  :soapy tit wank:

I had it and was fine. In fact, i dont think there is any solid proof suggesting it is dangerous.

Strangely, i was offered it again 6 months ago and i have no idea why. Neither did my doc.

Macca, my brother in law is a doctor and my sister is a RAF nurse, their children have both had the MMR injection.  Can't remember the ins and outs of their argument why they thought it was a "safe" option to do so, but do remember that what they said made sense.

If/when I have kids, I will be for giving them this protection.

You should go  :D

I would have it done Macca, the positives much outway the negatives.

Cheers for that will likely get them done now just wanted to be certain.

Some things you cant fuck about with can you

No, but at the end of the day you must do what you think is right for your ickle baby

I had no qualms about letting Jenna have it mate

I had measles and mumps as a kid and would not wish it on my worst enemy

go and get it done

I think all reports have shown that it was a bit of an over hyped scare story. Think there was something quite recent. Gooooooogle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7226763.stm

That was only a few months ago and says that they still haven't found any link. And it was 10 years ago that the link claims were first made.

If in doubt, ask a load of football fans on an internet forum... :D

Ha Ha good point.

Cheers for the link ben

I don't think I had an MMR and had both measles and mumphs. Not nice.

that must have been cos your bollocks had finally dropped!

Why else do you think this terrible beard started to develop?

Oi, Don't pretend, you're so proud of it  :D

I think its  agood idea and seems media led.  Kids get ill and people have jumped to conclusions.

i was worried about mine having it, and this was at the time that alot were not bothering because of the negative stories etc.
we let them have it and had no probs.even if it was the cause of something, the amount effected is tiny in comparison to those kids getting the jab.
suppose people can be affected by different stuff.some girls die shoving a tampax in dont they?

TWAT I just spit my coffee everywhere

Although he is right!!!  Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS)

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  thats fucking hilarious for some reason. Not the dying bit though

no need for the abuse macca. :wink:
i was only trying to help

Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cry  :mrgreen:

Im offski as finishing work, Ill be interested to see where this conversation ends up by tomorrow!

certainly helped

TWAT should learn to swallow your drinks rather than spit them everywhere. :roll: :wink:  :D

My tourettes has kicked in i keep saying toxic shock syndrome . I aint laughed that loud at work before

If a tampon can cause this Toxic Shock Syndrome, then what about a length?

would take the saying "dead fuck" to another level eh?

Pull the other one

no, really.

In response to the original question regarding MMR

The research conducted in 1998 and published in the Lancet, which alledged a link between MMR vaccine and autism, has since been discreditted. Rationale includes unethical, biaised and inadequate sampling.

On a personal note all my sons have been vaccinated, One son (due to being born in the wrong year) has received 4 measles, 3 rubella & 2 mumps vaccines and graduates from uni this year.

In response to Mclovin`s query MMR vaccine has been offered to Mid-late teenagers recently due to concern regarding a mumps epidemic because some teenagers have only received 1 mumps vaccine and  require a 2nd vaccine to ensure immunity

Hope this is of assistance

Thanks warks

Oooh cheers. Will that still affect me at 24?

How do you find out how many you've had?  Can you track the ones you had at school then?

I put notches on the bedpost

 8)

:soapy tit wank:

ha ha ha

Macca,

I know this is a repetition of what everyone else has said but it's a bit of a hobby horse of mine as I used to work in Clinical Audit and Research at the time the thing first blew up. So here goes.

The whole MMR/Autism scare was orginally prompted by an article in The Lancet by a single GP, arising from a very small study that he had undertaken on some of the patients within his practice (we're talking less than 100 people here to give you some idea of the scale of it). As other people have said this "research" has been almost totally discredited subsequently and the BMA have taken action against the GP concerned over the way it was conducted.

Large scale pieces of research have been undertaken in Scandanavia, who introduced MMR earlier than us, studies involving hundreds of thousands of cases, and there was absolutely no evidence linking MMR to increased incidences of autism, or any other health problems.

Over here the goverment has spent the last few years funding a secondary study (basically getting people to examine the results of all of the research that has been undertaken on the subject internationally) and this failed to find any research anywhere that suggested there was a problem with it.

The trouble is that once a scare story like this has started it's difficult to kill off, and there are always going to be parents who's child has been diagnosed with autism that will look for something to blame it on. It doesn't help that the vaccine is usually given at around about the same time that symptoms of autism can start to present themselves.

But the main fact is this simple  - the rates of autism diagnosed in the populations of european countries using MMR are the same as those not using MMR.

MMR does not cause autism. FACT. Whereas measles can cause blindness or in the worst cases kill a child.

It's got to be your decision mate but if you decide against PLEASE make sure that you pay to get the vaccinations done as individual jabs instead.

Sorry if that went on a bit but this story has always wound me right up.

Just booked her in to baby clinic for tomorow thanks lumps

mclovin : Will that still affect me at 24?

 Probably no, the MMR campaign a few years ago targetted universitycollege aged students. You could always ask at your GP surgery but it would be at the surgery discretion to give or not to give the vaccination.

 STFC Lady: How do you find out how many you've had? Can you track the ones you had at school then?

Your GP surgery should have a record of all the vaccinations you have received including those given at school. If not you could contact the School Health Dept at your local Primary Care Trust ( you should be able to find their contact details on their web page). All child records are kept on file until the individual is 25 years old.[b[/b]

warks your like reg but you know medical stuff

Cheers

May I suggest the "thing under the name" as

Potential Doctor Reg ?

There was a place in old town, top of vic hill that dealt with the admin of school jabs etc. My doctor gave me their number when I needed to find out for uni what I had been vaccinated against.

Don't know if it's still open but I suggest contacting your GP as they should be able to point you in the right direction.