Re: UPDATE: 12 yr vaccines for my 2 non ASD kids/applicable quote!

[Guest guest]

" They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly

mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single

stubbornness. "

~Louise Erdrich

I think this is how both my husband and I feel as we try to compromise on

vaccines!

Pam

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> Hi everyone,

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> Thank you for your thoughts and suggestions. This is where I am at this

point. I believe I will be facing the following shots:

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> Menactra

> MMR

> DTaP

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> I have talked with my husband about running titers. He has agreed to accept

positive titers. My concern is getting a measles shot, for example, if one/both

are immune to mumps/rubella. Can I get individual shots? Same with tetanus. I

think I can get him to forget about diptheria and pertussis, but my thought is

there is no mercury free tetanus. Are the diptheria/tetanus boosters (Td) for

children?

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> Menactra is just going to happen. I can see that (we lost a colleague to

meningitis; it was brutal. He was traveling in an underdeveloped country

without being vaccinated, but still). Any thoughts on how to protect the kids

before/after this shot?

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> Pam

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[Guest guest]

In all the years I went to school, there was no vaccination against

meningitis. There was one they gave to anyone who came in close contact

with one who was diagnosed with it. My brother had to get the shot as a

classmate of his died of it in fourth grade. But they didn't vaccinate the

whole class, just my brother's class.

In all my schooling years, this was the only death from the disease, but one

child is one child, and it is a bad disease. but I don't remember my son

getting the vaccine you named. He did however get Prevnar, which was full

of mercury, and I think this one added put him at his tipping point.

you are supposed to be able to get individual shots in place of MMR, but few

doctors provide this. It can't hurt to ask.