<p>before they head out?</p>
<p>I know the MMR and an updated Tetnus shot?</p>
<p>My daughter just went in for her physical, got the updated Tetnus (with whooping cough) and the menigitis one. She'd already had the Hep A/ Hep B series.</p>
<p>Just the meningitis shot. The rest are up-to-date for school and trips anyway.</p>
<p>The only one I needed was meningitis. My pediatrician was out of the vaccine when I went in late summer (and the new shipment was coming after I would have left), so I got it at my student health center on campus. Think about adding the HPV vaccine to the list now, too.</p>
<p>Meningitis and HPV. And watch out for any news pertaining to chickenpox vaccine. There's some scientific data coming in that says that it doesn't last forever. Probably within the next year or two, an official recommendation will come out saying that those who got this vaccine in childhood need to get a second shot later on.</p>
<p>Curious to know if many of the current class getting ready to head to college received the chicken pox vaccine. My kiddo actually had the chicken pox, I think she was 4 at the time, so about 1993.</p>
<p>She's had all the other recommended vaccinations.</p>
<p>both my Ds had chicken pox- when they were 4 or 5
Older D had Hep B vaccine- I should check to see if she has had tetanus, her sister probably should get one as well- although how long are they good for- 10 years? She had one when she was 9 ( stepped on a nail)</p>
<p>Both my kids had the chicken pox vaccine. (Husband was traveling a lot and the thought of being house bound for a couple of weeks was overwhelming.)</p>
<p>Both my kids had chicken pox, at ages 4 and 1. Just started HPV for my daughter (HS jr.), and my son got the meningitis vacc. before he moved into the dorm, plus the heps, etc.</p>
<p>We had this chat with our ped last week -- he gave DS the meningitis shot, said Hep A is required by some schools, but not others.</p>
<p>Both my kids had cheicken pox as toddlers (consecutively -- what a glorious month that was!). Our ped said that while the new recommendation is for kids who had the shot to be re-immunized, the word is not out on those who actually had the disease. He thinks they might require kids who had the disease to get the shot as well, but to stay tuned. The thinking seems to be that even if one had the disease, one is not exposed to it as often as one used to be, and they don't know if those occasional inadvertent re-exposures help boost immunnity over a lifetime or not.</p>
<p>took both my kids to the health department last month (for vacc for out of country travel) and the RN said that there has been a change and both boys needed a second chicken pox vaccine -- so they each got one more shot than they had expected (and weren't happy about it).</p>
<p>When my kids had chicken pox ( they are 8 years apart- so not at the same time), it wasn't really that bad, although it was stressful waiting with the 2nd one, to see if the pox was going to clear up in time for us to take our annual family vacation.
( It did)</p>
<p>My oldest had it before the vaccine, and parents in her co-op would have chicken pox parties, invite the kids over to get sick to get it over with.
She actually attended one of those parties, but that wasn't when she got it, I don't think it is as contagious as its reputation.</p>
<p>My "kids" are 21 and 17, and both had the shots while in elementary school, after failing to catch the disease despite being exposed over and over and over.</p>
<p>I have warned both of them repeatedly that they are much older than the cohort of people who all had the shots and that therefore it's their responsibility to specifically tell doctors that they had the chicken pox shot and not the disease, just in case any new recommendations come out. For my older kid especially, I don't think that a doctor is likely to realize that he might have had the shot because so few people born in the mid-1980s did.</p>
<p>My three kids were in the original study for the chicken pox vaccine. They get yearly titers for the study (actually for the money) and now their titers have dropped. The recommendation is to get s booster. Also, absolutely make sure your kid gets the meningioccocemia vaccine and go now since we frequently run out by mid summer ( I'm a pediatrician). I would also not just get the tetanus booster but the new pertussis/tetanus booster. I have seen several outbreaks of pertussis (whooping cough) at our local No Calif UC's</p>
<p>I guess I should have DD get another Chicken Pox shot. She also was repeatedly exposed...and on purpose too and never got the pox. When I was young, I had a very mild case (6 chicken pox, all on my tummy) at age 12. I've always worried that I will get them again...I'm a teacher in a primary school, so I think I would have gotten them by now. DD just never got them at all. Before college she also had boosters (which happened to be due) for DPT amd MMR, and had the meningitis shot. She is completing the HPV series this week.</p>
<p>I would definitely get the HPV. My 14 year old starts her series this summer. Luckily she will never be exposed to anything until she is married but you never know where the new husband has been.
No, seriously what could be better than a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer.</p>
<p>The thing about the HPV and fall freshman is starting them now, they get their first shot in May, the second in July, and the third should be in Nov/Dec. Well, off she goes to school in September, we are expecting her to spend Thanksgiving with the nearby grandparents rather than come home in Nov, and in Dec she only has two weeks, one of which the doctor's office will likely be closed or on skeleton crew. And if in the whirlwind which is the holiday, if we forget to get her HPV then she needs to start over. We are leaving this one for the college infirmary.</p>
<p>Futureholds, what is the medical thinking on HPV vaccine for young men?</p>
<p>Moominmama---since HPV is protecting from cervical cancer, I don't think it's given to men (but I'm no doctor....)</p>
<p>D got meningitis and Hep A vaccines (school requires them or a signed "I-know-I've-been-really-encouraged" waiver form). We're waiting a year or two on HPV, to make sure there's no side effects that emerge, as seems to be the case with too many medications. I've had some questionable experiences with drugs that are new to the market, so I'm wary of the nation's drugmakers, I'm afraid. However, D was the one who said she wanted to wait and check it out. Apparently she and her friends have talked about it. Dr. lectured daughter that it is really MUCH more effective to get the immunizations before becoming sexually active. (but still effective once sexual activity has begun, assuming that the virus hasn't already been passed along).</p>
<p>Yes, but if men are the carriers, it seems to me that the vaccine would also be a good idea, so that the men don't pass it on to unvaccinated women. (But I'm no doctor as well.)</p>