<p>Even some doctors are total morons. About ten years ago a doctor swore that my son and I couldn’t possibly have whooping cough because we’d been vaccinated, and how dare we think that we knew more than a doctor? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>We quickly found another doctor who didn’t have her head up her posterior, and (surprise, surprise!) we definitely had whooping cough.</p>
<p>I don’t know exactly where I stand on this. I vaccinated all of my kids, with some misgivings. Turned down one vaccine once, a rota vaccine, which later was discontinued because of side effects. If memory serves. But, the idea of sending all the unvaccinated kids to the same school is an interesting one. Hah. I bet a lot of people would change their minds about not vaccinating if they had to do that.</p>
<p>And if a pregnant lady contracts these measles, her fetus will be damaged.<br>
I don’t get it, I’ll never get it as long as I live. That criminal Westfield (?) has no idea what havoc he has wreaked on us all. I think he should rot in prison. His false information + the internet has led to ridiculous consequences.</p>
<p>I’m sympathetic to the pediatricians. Although I don’t like the idea of denying medical care to kids, I’d hate to be the pediatrician whose immune-compromised cancer patient, or whose premie too-young-to-vaccinate patient, caught measles or whooping cough from some perfectly healthy child whose lala parents didn’t want their special snowflake to get basic vaccinations. The death rate for whooping cough for kids too young to vaccinate is horrifying high. >>>>>>></p>
<p>Thank you. How incredibly selfish can one be?</p>
<p>Here’s another thing…it’s becoming forgotten. Folks crippled with polio are still among us. The younger generations, including myself, don’t remember pertussis epidemics. My mother does. She remembers several area babies dying during one.</p>
<p>I confess my daughter’s pediatrician had to sweet talk me into giving her the HPV vaccine because Katie Couric reported on adverse effects of the vaccine.</p>
<p>It is not just other children who at risk. About 30 years ago a good friend of ours who had never had measles as a child or been vaccinated as an adult and was a middle school teacher caught measles from one of his students. He was deathly ill for two weeks, running a dangerously high fever that almost caused him to be hospitalized…and oh yes, he and his wife were the parents of a one year old at the time. It was really a difficult stressful situation. I don’t know how that child’s immunization record fell through the cracks as back in those days you had to show proof or your child’s immunization history to register to attend school and it needed to be updated on a periodic basis, at least here in NYS and in particular in the NYC school system.</p>
<p>When the news is taliking about a measles outbreak, is it * Rubeola?* or * Rubella.*?</p>
<p>I bet the pediatrician’s office caught the attention of those parents. Imagine if all pediatricians took that stance?</p>
<p>I always got my kids vaccinated as soon as possible. But when D applied for a hospital job she was tested for her immunities and it turned out the Hep A (or was it B) vaccination she’d gotten as an infant was no longer ‘working’. So she had to be re-vaccinated. </p>
<p>I hope all you adults here have gotten your shingles vaccination. My dad had shingles and said it was the worst pain of his life.</p>
<p>The only vaccine that I personally get is Tetanus, although my youngest has been vaccinated for quite a bit because she travels to developing nations.</p>
<p>I had all my children vaccinated for the typical diseases and even the atypical (HPV, Meningitis, Typhoid, etc.) by age 2. It is about prevention, even when the disease is rare. My colleagues thought I was crazy until there was a meningitis outbreak at a daycare.</p>
<p>^^^The more you know…</p>
<p>My husband had meningitis and I would never skip that one.</p>
<p>Didn’t get a flu shot. Feel free to brand me as an anti-intellectual, freeloading nutjob. :p</p>
<p>I do feel all kids should get the run of the mill vaccines when they’re…you know…young and vulnerable.</p>
<p>Niquii
I didn’t get the flu shot either…until I finally got the flu one year.</p>
<p>I hate shots, so I get the flu mist. Easy</p>
<p>They don’t give tetnus shots anymore - they only give DPT boosters instead - even for adults (found out last year when I needed one). This way if your childhood immunity has worn off for those diseases you are covered now as an adult.</p>
<p>My daughter has gotten all her vaccines without incident, until this summer when she had a bad reaction to the first shot in the HPV series- so she is not going to get the next two in that series. When she spoke to the doctor about it (she is 19 so I am not in charge of her medical treatment anymore) - the doctor agreed she should skip them.</p>
<p>There’s a mist? </p>
<p>I’ve probably had the flu once or twice in my lifetime. The thing is I don’t get fevers so my illnesses have always been passed off as a “cold”. There just hasn’t been a need for me to get the shot.</p>
<p>You haven’t gotten the flu flu. You KNOW when you get the FLU.</p>
<p>You’re lucky. You’re also a potential carrier for those who are too immune compromised to get the vaccine. </p>
<p>That’s what ****es me off about those who don’t get vaccines for themselves. I don’t really care if you want to hurt YOURSELF but can you spare a thought to how you’re endangering the lives of others? </p>
<p>I admit, I was a hypocrite this year and didn’t get my vaccine until very late. I couldn’t afford it (no insurance). It was a terrible excuse.</p>
<p>it’s going on four weeks now, and I still have alternating pain, intense itching, and weird numbness from shingles. I can’t wait to get a vaccine and never go through this again, and hope it goes away at some point.</p>
<p>I had never heard of the vaccine until this happened.</p>
<p>romani, I don’t feel you not being able to afford your vaccine is a bad excuse. I vee it as a reason. I mean…you still got it.</p>