MMR, anyone?

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 13 Feb 2006, 23:33

I was interested to notethat although they generally make you wait at least a year, you can in fact get the MMR for your child at almost any age...

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 14 Feb 2006, 19:52

mr magnolia wrote:I was interested to note that although they generally make you wait at least a year, you can in fact get the MMR for your child at almost any age...

This is more because giving the vaccine to the baby any younger than 12 months is generally less effective because the mother's antibodies may interefere with the vaccine.

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 15 Feb 2006, 12:07

Well that's a tediously scientific and uncontentious response. Thanks.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 15 Feb 2006, 12:38

mr magnolia wrote:Well that's a tediously scientific and uncontentious response. Thanks.

Well said, lets hope its not infectious.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 15 Feb 2006, 13:56

MMR hadn't been invented when my two were small but they were part of the catch up programme when they were about 5. After the events of this Xmas and New Year (in which my youngest Epykitten had mumps for a full fortnight) I could argue that it didn't work

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 15 Feb 2006, 14:55

When I was a baby I had something they thought was measles and wasn't given the vaccine. Oops.

When I was 8 I got measles for real. I caught it from Brian Logan, but I'm not bitter. We were going on holiday to my maternal grandmother's house in Bexleyheath (20 years later revealed as the home of Soviet atomic spy Melita Norwood) and I started to get really sick on the train.

We had to change at Waterloo, and I was sick on the platform. As this was (1981?) I can remember being worried about making a mess of the platform where Charles and Diana were going to set off on their honeymoon from.

Over the next 2 weeks I was delerious and almost got hospitalized.It wasn't much of a holiday for anyone!

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 16 Feb 2006, 14:44

Porty wrote:
mr magnolia wrote:Well that's a tediously scientific and uncontentious response. Thanks.

Well said, lets hope its not infectious.

It is infectious but don't worry, you won't catch it if you have been vaccinated.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 16 Feb 2006, 14:52

Pal of Porty wrote: you won't catch it if you have been vaccinated.

...or if you've had it already.

PoP - did you know that measles is a very close genetic relative of canine distemper?

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 16 Feb 2006, 23:14

Dadaist wrote:PoP - did you know that measles is a very close genetic relative of canine distemper?

Totally forgotten but when I looked it up, it all came flooding back - in dribs and drabs!

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