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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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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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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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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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USA source of monovalent MMR equivalents??
Robyn Kozierok wrote:
I guess that was my main point. Is it known or believed that administering the vaccines separately "nullif[ies] any chance of side effects"? Unless parents are skipping the vaccines they consider too risky, which has its own risks. Can't help you there. I think this is one of the points that needs to be addressed by future studies. Many people seem concerned about it, and my gut feeling is that it makes sense the 3 shots in one have a higher risk than 3 separate shots. However, I don't believe the risks are ever truly zero, they are just a whole lot smaller than the risks of your child getting ill with the disease. -- -- Ilse mom to Olaf (07/15/2002) TTC #2 "What's the use of brains if you are a girl?" Aletta Jacobs, first Dutch woman to receive a PhD |
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