<p>Just a friendly reminder (among the myriad tasks before us) that we all need to get this done. The text below is copied directly from the Student Health Center website:</p>
<p>Immunizations
Entrance Requirements</p>
<p>Before you can complete the registration process for class, all new students regardless of classification, must have:</p>
<p>Proof of the meningitis vaccination (Manactra and Menomune)</p>
<p>If you were born after 1956, proof of two (2) measles containing vaccinations. One of these vaccines must be an MMR vaccination after 1980</p>
<p>Acceptable proof of tuberculosis screening within the last year.</p>
<p>Your health care provider complete and sign the immunization form as acceptable proof of immunizations and TB screening. This form should be returned to the SHC during student orientation, faxed, or mailed to the contact information below.
All vaccines and tuberculosis screening are available at the Student Health Center but MUST be completed prior to moving into campus housing or start of classes.</p>
<p>Immunization Control
Box 870360
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0360
Fax: (205) 348-0630 or (205) 348-8611</p>
<p>Here’s the link to the required immunization form:</p>
<p>Our doctor didn’t keep the meningitis vaccine on hand, so we had the Bama student health center give our boys those shots at Bama Bound.</p>
<p>Try to do the TB test at home before you go to Bama bound. It requires a health professional to look at the results on your arm a couple of days afterwards. They mark the results on the card and those get submitted.</p>
<p>^^^Good to know, but I’m not sure it’s worth risking your spot in the registration queue in the hope that the SHC will be so lackadaisical this time around.</p>
<p>For the meningitis vaccine, our doctor recommended that we call him about a week before my son’s physical. Then, he called in the prescription for the vaccine, and we picked it up on the way to his office. The shelf life of the vaccine is very low, which explains why most doctors do not have a supply in their offices.</p>
<p>I took my daughter yesterday for her physical and to get the SHC form filled out. They told me she needed a TdaP (Tetanus + Persussis) booster. Apparently she received the Td at age 12, but the CDC has changed the guidelines due to the increase in whooping cough (pertussis) cases in the past few years. I checked it out on the CDC website and found the recommendation for a TdaP booster.</p>
<p>The SHC form doesn’t require the TdaP booster, however, I decided for her to go ahead and get the protection against whooping cough, since college campuses tend to breed disease!</p>
<p>I seem to recall a tetanus (TdaP) shot within the last 10 years being a requirement last year, which is why I needed it done. The meningitis shot was easy to come by, but a TB is not usually required of college students where I’m from, so that was more difficult to find.</p>
<p>^^^Bumping this up as another reminder so that nobody attending the upcoming Bama Bound sessions this month slips between the cracks. We faxed in our form this evening.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to the Immunization requirements. The links to the immunization form, as well as the (optional) medical history and prescription forms are contained within. </p>
<p>^^^Thanks, NJBama. I just copied and pasted from my original post. Somewhere between April 22 and today things changed on the website, I guess. My bad for not checking first. Sorry, folks.</p>
<p>We’re going to bama bound June 1. Can anyone give tips about getting the form to the student center? Is it best to mail it beforehand, or will we have time to go there ourselves and hand deliver it? Even though we check in the day before, it’s memorial day, so I doubt the health center will be open. will have the form done by Friday when we get the TB test read, so can mail it off as early as Saturday, May 15, and BB session is June 1.</p>
<p>Any thoughts on this?</p>
<p>Oh, and while I was at the doctor’s office, I did get son vaccinated for H1N1. Remember all the horror stories from last fall. Of course, there will be a new strain next year, but wanted to take the precaution since we’re OOS.</p>
<p>Last June, the student health center set up a table in the Ferg. Parents/students could turn in their forms at that time, so there was no need to go to the health center.</p>
<p>As for the H1N1, Alabama set up centers at the Ferg, Ridgecrest and Tut to offer students the vaccine. The school also offered flu shots to students.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. I was hoping that would be the case, there would be a table set up to turn in forms, especially since the health center is on the other side of campus.</p>
<p>Good to hear about the flu shot offerings. I’ll check with my doc to see if and when he’ll need a reboost of the H1N1. He’s had several regular flu shots, but will check into when he can get that.</p>
<p>Son has asthma and hasn’t had an attack since Age 5, but since he’ll be living in a different place and doing a lot more walking than usual, want to be on the safe side.</p>
<p>Doc gave us a fresh script for an inhaler, to keep it handy.</p>
<p>Any other asthmatics might want to take the same precautions.</p>
<p>Here’s a funny story. I came in to UA, graduated, started grad school (a time span of five years). One day, I got burned in a lab accident (my own fault), so I had to go the SHC. Well, when I check in to see a doctor, the receptionist informs me that I don’t have have an proof of immunization on file. To be honest, I didn’t submit one because I was never asked to. Well anyway, she tells me to submit one soon. Well, that was a year and half ago, and I still haven’t done anything about it.</p>