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USA source of monovalent MMR equivalents??
Richard wrote:
Can anyone give a source of monovalent vaccines (one per injection) for measles, mumps, and rubella in the USA or Canada? Our health center was able to order a single vax for rubella for us, but I haven't been able to get one for mumps or measles. We go the MeruVax II for rubella. E |
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USA source of monovalent MMR equivalents??
DS is now 3 and just had his first MMR a few eeks ago. Our family dr was
trying to get the individual vaccines for a year and was never able to. We took ds to a pediatrician for his 3 yr check-up and they also checked into the individual vaccines for us and found out that only the Rubella is available separately (because they need it to give to adult women as per the pregnancy issues w/ rubella), and the company which manufactured the separate vaccines is not making them any more, so only the combination is available. That's what the ped said. So we went ahead and got the MMR, but only the MMR and have no reactions to report. -Karen, mom to Henry- |
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:17:56 EDT, Karen
wrote: Our family dr was trying to get the individual vaccines for a year and was never able to. My family doctor was not able to get separate vaccines either. He called the national vaccine register (or something like that) and the manufacturer of the vaccines. Nothing. They just don't make them anymore. FWIW, this was in Victoria, Australia. -- ==Daye== Momma to Jayan #2 EDD 11 Jan 2004 E-mail: brendana AT labyrinth DOT net DOT au |
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USA source of monovalent MMR equivalents??
In article , Richard wrote:
Thanks, Karen. At least we (just barely) escaped the new combined five-component pertussis-diphtheria-tetanus-inactivated poliomyelitis-Haemophilus b conjugate vaccine. I'll probably be sorry I asked, but what is the advantage of / obsession with uncombined vaccines? The above combination represented 3 jabs for my kids, and I'm sure *they* would have preferred a single shot. They had them all at the same time anyhow, so in our case it would have been just less pain, unless there is some disadvantage to mixing them in one shot that goes beyond having to get them all at once. I presume there is some theory that it is safer to get them in separate jabs, possibly at separate times? Is there any research to support this? We're done with vaccinations for a couple of years now, so this is mostly just curiosity. Thanks, --Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01) |
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USA source of monovalent MMR equivalents??
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:55:02 EDT, Richard
wrote: At least we (just barely) escaped the new combined five-component pertussis-diphtheria-tetanus-inactivated poliomyelitis-Haemophilus b conjugate vaccine. That is the scariest vaccine I have ever heard of! Where on earth do they give that and at what ages? -- ==Daye== Momma to Jayan #2 EDD 11 Jan 2004 E-mail: brendana AT labyrinth DOT net DOT au |
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Our own personal reasoning, based more on what seems common sense to us
and the fact that there are autoimmune issues in my family tree than on necessarily anything that we've read,is that bombarding a still developing immune system (some reading suggests the immune system isn't mature until around age 5) with so many doses all at once of foreign stuff for the body to figure out what to do with is unwise. In our particular situation, we are concerned about a body which may have genetic markers for autoimmune diseases being triggered into an autoimmune reaction by a huge dose of vaccines. My thoughts on this are based on my mother-gut-instinct and a general cynical and suspicious view of any established ideas on anything, my husband's view on this comes from having a background in science, incuding his undergraduate degree in meolecular biology from a pretty major school for such things. Personally, I don't care how many extra trips to the doctor's office we have to make, and ds has always been nursed through every shot so he really has no issues with shots. We are doing selective vax, so he hasn't had quite as many shots anyway. I don't like this coersion into getting medical treatment you don't want simply because individual doses of the vaxs are no longer available. Ds would have been vaccinated for MMR a year earlier had the individual doses been available, but the government and medical establishment doesn't seem to want to trust people with choice. Don't get me started! -Karen, mom to Henry 3- |
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Karen writes:
Our own personal reasoning, based more on what seems common sense to us and the fact that there are autoimmune issues in my family tree than on necessarily anything that we've read,is that bombarding a still developing immune system (some reading suggests the immune system isn't mature until around age 5) with so many doses all at once of foreign stuff for the body to figure out what to do with is unwise. In all seriousness, the response of the immune system doesn't involve any "figuring out". It's purely a mechanical reaction: this, triggers that, triggers the other thing. Independently in lots of cells. I don't think there's any evidence for any central coordinating agent that goes, "Hey, I need to think about what to do about this, but I can't really think about that at the same time." Such an anthropomorphic analogy seems only misleading, to me. Ds would have been vaccinated for MMR a year earlier had the individual doses been available, but the government and medical establishment doesn't seem to want to trust people with choice. Don't get me started! There's certainly a deliberate effort to coerce and convince and persuade people, in all sorts of ways, to get vaccinated, because a large part of the benefit from vaccination is to other people, not to the recipients of the vaccines. So society sets up systems to try to get people to do that, in the same way that we have systems and incentives to get people to do lots of other things that benefit society as a whole. The motivation of laws requiring vaccination isn't unlike that of laws against speeding, or requiring polluters to clean up their output, or setting licensing and performance standards for service providers, etc. Whether that's a good idea or not, in this particular case, is of course open to debate. David desJardins |
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USA source of monovalent MMR equivalents??
Robyn Kozierok wrote:
In article , Richard wrote: Thanks, Karen. At least we (just barely) escaped the new combined five-component pertussis-diphtheria-tetanus-inactivated poliomyelitis-Haemophilus b conjugate vaccine. I'll probably be sorry I asked, but what is the advantage of / obsession with uncombined vaccines? The above combination represented 3 jabs for my kids, and I'm sure *they* would have preferred a single shot. They had them all at the same time anyhow, so in our case it would have been just less pain, unless there is some disadvantage to mixing them in one shot that goes beyond having to get them all at once. I presume there is some theory that it is safer to get them in separate jabs, possibly at separate times? Is there any research to support this? We're done with vaccinations for a couple of years now, so this is mostly just curiosity. DD had a reaction to the Haemophilus vaccine -- although I thought it was the Haemophilus A, not the b conjugate vaccine (whatever that is -- it's been a while ) With 5 shots in one, it's kinda hard to tell what's causing what if something goes awry. Her reaction (fever) was fairly rare, btw, and certainly can't be linked to the vaccine, but it did recur each time she got the shot ( there were 2 or 3 of them ) Scott DD 10 and DS 7 |
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