Is the MMRV vaccine this available? Or is the varicella vaccine now administered separately?Baby's one year appointment is tomorrow. Nervous about getting the MMRV or MMR vaccine.
Niiiiice, really nice to the lady who claims to be a nurse. I thought people in the medical profession were all about pushing the vaccines? No, as a matter of fact, I do not want to give my baby the MMRV vaccine. But what the hell am I supposed to do? I certainly dont want her getting measles mumps or rubella either. So thanks for the angst and anxiety. It's so lovely to be a parent in this day and age.
Answer by beetlemilk
Wait, you want to give a live vaccine and add another component to it and give it at the youngest possible time (MMR given 12-18m)?
Why take the highest possible risks? And on a winter baby? Let me guess this is a boy right, making the risks as high as possible?
Well that is good news that its a girl.
Actually medical professionals have the lowest compliance rates of vaccines, and children of doctors have the largest subset group of unvaccinated children. The flu shot for example has a 40 percent compliance rate by healthcare workers.
What are you supposed to do, don't get it tomarrow, delay it. When you do get it don't get the MMR together, break it apart. Get the measles portion at the 2 yr old visit.
If you really want to know why I am so wary about this vaccine my oldest son got it at 15 months and then promptly stopped talking, walking, sitting, then got so sick we had to have last rights given from the kawasaki disease, then again when he got scartlet fever twice, and then rheumatic fever.
My q and a are available and I talk of this alot.
look into Dr. Sears delayed vaccine schedule
From Dr. Cave's book what your doctor may not tell you about childhood vaccines:
MMR-recommend getting it in 3 seperate vaccines starting at 15 months of age and give measles first, rubella to be given 12 months later, then mumps 12 months after that. For the preschool MMR booster shot given at 4-6 years, recommend drawing titers to determine immunity (page 277)
Answer by andmic510
My son had his MMR but has not had his varicella yet. He is 20 months. We were having an outbreak of measles at the time of his vaccine, which is why I got it. I was going to wait, but I know the benefits far outweigh the risks when it comes to measles and the vaccine. I just insisted that was the only vaccine he would be given that day. I have spaced out his vaccines so he is getting them, just not all together.
Answer by Lisa
MMR is most effective if given at 18 months or older. So over her lifetime, she will be more protected from measles, mumps, and rubella if you wait until at least 18 months.
MMR is no longer available as separate measles, mumps, and rubella shots.
But, definitely DON'T get it combined with varicella! The MMRV has been proven to cause more side effects than the MMR and varicella shots given separately, even in the same visit.
My advice is to skip the chickenpox shot. Let her get chickenpox naturally, and be immune for life. And why are you worried about her getting rubella, which is so mild in children, it usually shows no symptoms? I know you have no choice on rubella if you want a measles vaccine, but while you wait until 18 months, you can cross rubella off your list of worries!
Get the facts on the chickenpox vaccine, treatment, causes (varicella zoster virus, VZV), symptoms and signs (itchy, red rash).
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