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Did I get the Bcg when I was a kid?

  • 11-04-2020 7:27am
    #1
    nokiatom
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    Can I find out if I got the Bcg as a kid?


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  • #2
    willowthewisp
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    nokiatom wrote: »
    Can I find out if I got the Bcg as a kid?

    Have you a couple of marks on your shoulder?


  • #3
    nokiatom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭nokiatom


    willowthewisp wrote: »
    Have you a couple of marks on your shoulder?
    I had one time but nothing there now. I'm wondering is it on record that I got it


  • #4
    Loveinapril
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    If you Google 'vaccine schedule' and the year you were born you can check if it was a standard vaccine. Then check with your parents if they followed the full schedule at the time.


  • #5
    echo beach
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    The BCG was generally given at birth in the hospital so if you were born in hospital in the Republic of Ireland you would have been vaccinated unless your parents specifically requested that you didn’t get it for some reason.


  • #6
    nokiatom
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    echo beach wrote: »
    The BCG was generally given at birth in the hospital so if you were born in hospital in the Republic of Ireland you would have been vaccinated unless your parents specifically requested that you didn’t get it for some reason.
    I've got a feeling I got it in school about 50 years ago


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  • #7
    0lddog
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    echo beach wrote: »
    The BCG was generally given at birth in the hospital so if you were born in hospital in the Republic of Ireland you would have been vaccinated unless your parents specifically requested that you didn’t get it for some reason.

    Well, I dont know what generation you are think of here.

    In my case I'm pretty certain it was done some years after birth


  • #8
    nokiatom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭nokiatom


    0lddog wrote: »
    Well, I dont know what generation you are think of here.

    In my case I'm pretty certain it was done some years after birth

    same here...i think i got it in school and we were **** scared to get it lol


  • #9
    0lddog
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    nokiatom wrote: »
    same here...i think i got it in school and we were **** scared to get it lol

    LOLs, F***ing big syringe straight out of a Carry On movie ? :D

    Did you have the polio vac later on on a sugar lump ? Any idea what age you were then ?


  • #10
    nokiatom
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    0lddog wrote: »
    LOLs, F***ing big syringe straight out of a Carry On movie ? :D

    Did you have the polio vac later on on a sugar lump ? Any idea what age you were then ?
    the sugar lump rings a bell. i reckon it was before the 70's i got them


  • #11
    Seamai
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    I asked my mum the other day if I had got the BCG vaccine, 10 minutes later she WhatsApped me a pic of my vaccination card showing all my childhood jabs since my birth in 1964, had it before I left the maternity hospital.


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  • #12
    Iodine1
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    Up to 70s as far as I know it was given in 6 th class, national school except to those who had history ie tested TB positive.


  • #13
    Loveinapril
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    Seamai wrote: »
    I asked my mum the other day if I had got the BCG vaccine, 10 minutes later she WhatsApped me a pic of my vaccination card showing all my childhood jabs since my birth in 1964, had it before I left the maternity hospital.

    That is a woman on top of her game!!


  • #14
    nokiatom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭nokiatom


    Loveinapril wrote: »
    That is a woman on top of her game!!

    well i wasnt born in a maternity hospital!


  • #15
    echo beach
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    Iodine1 wrote: »
    Up to 70s as far as I know it was given in 6 th class, national school except to those who had history ie tested TB positive.

    In the 70's there were checks in school to see who had antibodies as not everybody who gets the BCG will respond. They used a small circular punch to scratch the inside on the lower arm then came back a week or so later to check if the bumps rose. I remember it well. Even if you had the marks on the upper arm where the injection was given you still had to get the test.


  • #16
    khalessi
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    The BCG vaccine can wear off. I had it as a child and was tested using a Mantoux test before starting work as I needed it to deal with the public. It turns out the test showed I needed to be given it again. It is now more then 19 years since I had that second one done and presume it has worn off again.


  • #17
    Water John
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    Remember the punch test and the sugar lump in NS. I'm in my early 60s.


  • #18
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Seamai wrote: »
    I asked my mum the other day if I had got the BCG vaccine, 10 minutes later she WhatsApped me a pic of my vaccination card showing all my childhood jabs since my birth in 1964, had it before I left the maternity hospital.

    Fair play to your mother.

    I asked my mother and the best I got was 'I think you where', but I don't have the three dots on my shoulder.

    Its a pity there's no a database where people could check online.


  • #19
    Loveinapril
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    Wilson Famous Strapless wrote: »
    Fair play to your mother.

    I asked my mother and the best I got was 'I think you where', but I don't have the three dots on my shoulder.

    Its a pity there's no a database where people could check online.

    When I was pregnant, I got checked and it turned out that I wasn't immune to rubella, which can be serious if contracted in pregnancy. The hospital asked was I inoculated and I asked my mam and like you, it was "I think so". She basically said that whatever was standard back then, I got it. That's where I learnt about the vaccine schedule.


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