Titers/Was tuna answers and vaccine answers and taurine question

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It might help to " search archives " for " titers " as this topic comes

up regularly. Several months ago Holly posted info on the titers to

run, for example.

>

> > . Regarding vaccines...my 5 year old was due when

> > he started kindergarten last fall, so we had his titers checked

with

> > a blood test, (that tells whether you are immune)...we checked

him

> > for measles, mumps, rubella, diptheria, tetanus and pertussis...

(mmr

> > and dpt) He had high immunity to all from his original

vaccines.

> > The way I understand it is if a child has been vaccinated when

they

> > are little most children are still immune....they revaccinate at

> > school age to cover the very small percentage of kids who do not

have

> >

>

> Thanks very much to everyone for this valuable info! Now my

question

> is....how do you tell the value of what is considered high

immunity? I don't

> want my ped. to pull the wool over my eyes so I want to know what

the scale

> is. Make sense?

> Debbie

>