Honest opinions about Mmr vaccination and it's timing

Zveri

Hi All,
I have almost 9 month old twins a boy and a girl. They've had all their vaccinations on time so far. But I'm very very wary about the mmr vaccination and it's timing I read on article saying England was thinking of bringing it's vaccination timing back to 12 month from 15 months. But everywhere else I know of east europe,new zealand,america and currently uk it's done at 15 to 16.5months.
So why is it done here so early?
I have a daughter and I truly think I want her to have this vaccination so her future children won't be at risk from rubella and I also don't want to compromise my Son's future fertility if he contracts Mumps.
But why would it not be better to have this at say age four before school but not to leave doubt in mind about it triggering autism (which I know all that research was thrown out and the doctor admitted it was false evidence)
But is there really smoke without any fire?
My husbands not Irish and over there alot of people postpone it til age 6 as it's school doesn't start til age 7.
I'd like to hear from anyone who's a parent
whether they will choose to do this vaccination or not or have done it or want to delay it and why?
Me and my husband will decide what's best for our own children but I'd like to see what is current opinions on this topic.
I've talked to my Gp about this already he said it's our choice but it is recommended.

Thanks in advance

Ayla

My honest opinion (since you asked for that) is that I would do any & all jabs as soon as they become available because the potential consequences of not getting them outweigh any misgivings I may have about possible side effects.

In this day & age when many kids are exposed to the various threats through going to creche, montessori, play groups, etc mean that they are exposed to the diseases long before they start official school. Their exposure does not start at age 4, so why should their protection?

I had both of my girls immunized asap for all their possible jabs - to me, it's not worth the risk.

January

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mrsfive

You can delay, and get titers done to see if he has immunity to mumps when he is 12 or so. Just my two cents!

RobFowl

mrsfive wrote: »

You can delay, and get titers done to see if he has immunity to mumps when he is 12 or so. Just my two cents!

By that stage he could be left infertile as a result of Mumps.

locum-motion

But is there really smoke without any fire?

In this case, all smoke, no fire.

opinion guy

January wrote: »

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Oh yeah an MMR autism thread.
Thanks a bunch

:pac:

RobFowl

Zveri, FWIW I'm a GP and all my kids have had all the vaccinations on schedule.
There is no concern abut autism at all. The paper written by Andrew Wakefield, which set off the confusion has since been withdrawn by the Lancet as they accept it should never have been published (because it was so poorly done). Also numerous other labs around the world tried to copy his research but got completely different results.
He is also under cersure for the British medical council (has been struck off) for publishing fraudulent material.

Ayla

RobFowl wrote: »

There is no concern abut autism at all. The paper written by Andrew Wakefield, which set off the confusion has since been withdrawn by the Lancet as they accept it should never have been published (because it was so poorly done). Also numerous other labs around the world tried to copy his research but got completely different results.
He is also under cersure for the British medical council (has been struck off) for publishing fraudulent material.

If you read the OP carefully you'll see the autism scare was dismissed as well:

(which I know all that research was thrown out and the doctor admitted it was false evidence)

I don't think this thread need go down the route of the autism argument - as I read the OP that wasn't her primary query anyway.

Nonoperational

I'd get it done as per the recommended schedule to be honest. It's an incredibly safe vaccine.

Dave!

Ayla wrote: »

If you read the OP carefully you'll see the autism scare was dismissed as well:


I don't think this thread need go down the route of the autism argument - as I read the OP that wasn't her primary query anyway.

The OP then goes on to ask "But is there really smoke without any fire?", so clearly there's still some lingering doubts in their head, which are worth addressing.

As was already pointed out, the Andrew Wakefield study was completely fraudulent, but furthermore lots of huge studies have been carried out since then which have failed to find any link between MMR and autism.

There is absolutely smoke without fire - and the smoke was generated by one man (and the media response to his 'study').