I am on an alternate vaccine schedule due to the concerns of too many vaccines at once and the ammount of chemicals found in vaccines. I am also going to decline the MMR and the Chicken Pox vaccine, the first due to my two younger sisters having bad reactions to that vaccine and the second because it is not a complete vaccine and if they do get it later in life it could be worse due to the vaccine not working anymore. I had chicken pox and it was just fine. I barely noticed them and I was 11 at the time. I would rather my son go through that then get it as an adult like a family member of mine who had an awful time with it.
They do, but it's often considered irresponsible, because if you vax when they say to, your child will be needing a booster around early adulthood, the time when they're often unwilling to get the booster, forget, or don't have health insurance to pay for it. CP is already worse when you're an adult, but apparently it's even worse if you've been vaccinated for it and then don't get the booster--so many people are passing on the vaccination.
We don't routinely do it in the UK but it is available. As I didn't have chicken pox when a kid (despite all my friends getting it), I was tested when I wanted to start ttc-ing to find out if I was immune as chicken pox in pregnancy can be very nasty for the baby. Luckily I had immunity otherwise it would have been a course of two injections, three months apart and not being able to start ttc-ing until a fe months afterwards because the vaccine is a live one.
I have been to three different colleges/universities. For all three of them either MMR vaccinations were required or you had to show proof of immunity (titers showing that you are immune to them... I had to do this because I lost my immunization records) There was no option to opt out of them like there is for public K-12 schools.
I mean, there is no reason your kids can't wait to just get the vaccine then, but keep in mind that even if you can waiver out of it for school when their kids, you might not be able to if they want to go to college.
Oooh, one of the three has added a religious expemption. There is a medical expemption for that one to, but only if you can get a doctor to say you are allergic to a component of the vaccine. The other two have not implemented any exmption policies it looks like.
Im in the state of California and and I have been enrolled in 4 different colleges and not a single one wanted my Immunization records so I guess it just depends on the state. Also here in California, you can deny many vacc. if you sign responsibility waivers. He can decide if he wants them later.
Yeah, looking at all of the UC school's websites, they seem to just require Hep B. My MMR requirement experience comes from schools in Oregon, New York, and Maryland.
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We don't routinely do it in the UK but it is available. As I didn't have chicken pox when a kid (despite all my friends getting it), I was tested when I wanted to start ttc-ing to find out if I was immune as chicken pox in pregnancy can be very nasty for the baby. Luckily I had immunity otherwise it would have been a course of two injections, three months apart and not being able to start ttc-ing until a fe months afterwards because the vaccine is a live one.
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I have been to three different colleges/universities. For all three of them either MMR vaccinations were required or you had to show proof of immunity (titers showing that you are immune to them... I had to do this because I lost my immunization records) There was no option to opt out of them like there is for public K-12 schools.
I mean, there is no reason your kids can't wait to just get the vaccine then, but keep in mind that even if you can waiver out of it for school when their kids, you might not be able to if they want to go to college.
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