Re: sort of OT: MMR research slated on the 'tonight' program

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Hope no one plans to knock on my door thinking they may give outstanding jabs!Alison R

 

Evening all

A bit ironic coming from an autistic but here goes. I'm annoyed that

the tonight program didn't mention that vaccines are available in

single doses for those that wish it. All the program is doing

encourages parents to pressurise other parents into vaccinating their

kids!

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Mumps itself is not that bad, I had it as a child and I know people who have had

it in adulthood. The problem is for males - getting it after puberty can lead to

infertility. Can't tell from your name whether you are male or female - I know

both with your name!

What really peeved me off was that I started my son on single vaccines, he had

his two single measles ones, and when I went back for the next batch I was told

he couldn't have mumps one (because no longer available). I went to my NHS GP

and asked what I should do - given that he had already had two measles jabs, and

they OF COURSE said have the MMR. They are just so damn obsessed with the MMR.

So stupidly I did that - only the one dose. Only afterwards was I looking online

at advice in the US about what to do in this situation and the very common sense

answer was - if its for a girl, do single measles and rubella but don't worry

about mumps as there are no serious side effects of it, and if its for a boy

then wait until he is 8 (i.e. past major developmental stages) to give him the

MMR.

Common sense - totally absent from the NHS. Sigh.

> > Actually it's even worse than that because single vaccines for the MMR are

no longer available (for about 3/4 years now). You can get single measles,

single rubella, but no single mumps. The only company that was producing a safe

single mumps vaccine has withdrawn it from the market. I'm sure that decision

had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the same company supplies the

NHS and the CDC in America with the MMR vaccine....

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> ***ggrrrrrrr what methods can you use to prevent someone getting

> mumps? i doubt at my age of early 30s that im going to catch anything.

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The mumps vaccine is pointless and dangerous, as I understand it, because it wears off after a number of years. So when babies are vaccinated, they don't catch mumps as children, when it's pretty harmless and would give lifelong immunity. As adults, when the vaccine has worn off, they become susceptible to mumps, at an age when there is a risk of serious complications, such as male infertility. So the MMR has transformed mild childhood illness into a serious threat to adult health!Joanne> > > Actually it's even worse than that because single vaccines for the MMR are no longer available (for about 3/4 years now). You can get single measles, single rubella, but no single mumps. The only company that was producing a safe single mumps vaccine has withdrawn it from the market. I'm sure that decision had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the same company supplies the NHS and the CDC in America with the MMR vaccine....> > > > > > ***ggrrrrrrr what methods can you use to prevent someone getting> > mumps? i doubt at my age of early 30s that im going to catch anything.> > > > > > -- > > is> >>