chickenpox and mmr vaccine

we have our 18 mo WBV coming up and they are due for both vaccines bc i declined them at their 12 and then their 15 month appt. LOL.
i was thinking of just doing the chickenpox because i work in a school and was worried i might bring the virus home.
any thoughts? one of my LOs is still not really speaking and doing anything else, (vaccinations) makes me nervous.

did any of your LOs react to the chickenpox? any reason not to do it?

 

I'd do both... the link between autism and vaccines has been disproven. The only study that officially linked the two was officially retracted and the lead author has been widely discredited. The risk of measles, mumps and rubella are very real though. We had a couple cased of measles in the city just a few months ago and outbreaks do happen.

I know that this is something you struggle with, and honestly, I do too. But if your kids are getting out and playing with other kids and living their life they're going to be exposed to all kinds of things. It's just safer if they're vaccinated.

 

I agree. I know you are worried, but the reality is that there is no reason to be. The risk of a bad result from measles or mumps far outweighs the risk of a bad result from vaccines. There is just no link between vaccines and autism.

 

I agree w both pp get them vaccinated!

A short story... my friends dr accidentally gave her ds2 the chicken pox vaccine, her ds1 didn't get it. Well wouldn't you know ds2 got chicken pox very mildly (both my girls did as well) and her ds1 ended up in the hospital w flesh eating disease along w a horrible case of the pox.

 

I agree with all the PP's. There is no link between vaccines and autism. The only effect my two had from vaccines (and this was all of them) is that they would get a low fever and be sleepy for the next 24 hours. Good luck!

 

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I spaced the two out because my kids have a history of reacting to everything. Henry gets a cold and he gets hives. Since he was guaranteed a rash, I spaced them out to make sure it wasn't an over the top rash. My older son had the over the top rash. We got MMR at their 15 month appt and will get the chickenpox at their 18 or 24 month appt.

 

I remember worrying about this when my boys approached 15/18 months old. I emailed my good friend-who works with severely autistic children. She's worked for the May Institute and she now has her PhD. She's a behavioralist of some sort. All I know is, she now works for school systems, she has her own private consultation business, and she is also a professor at a local college. Whatever she has, she is one of the few in the region to have the credentials.

That said, I felt very comfortable talking to her about the MMR vaccine and the like. It certainly put my mind at ease. I agree with pp, get the vaccines. All of my kids got the chicken pox vaccines. I had them when I was younger, and I know how severe the cases can be. Good luck. If anything, you could definitely space them out if that makes you more comfortable.

 

My girls have all their vacines up to date except the mmr. While I know the study was disproven, I want it to be the only shot they get since the mmr shot is similar to getting 3 shots. I just want to make sure their immunne systems are up to be able to have their body adapt to it without too much reaction. One of my girls at the 3 month visit (lots of shots) had a bad reaction, which is why I want it to be the only shot they get. So since they are caught up on everything, their next visit they will get the mmr.

My husband's cousin is a pediatrician and refuses to accept new "patients" if the parents will not get them vacinated because she knows she will have to treat them for something that one of the shots could have prevented and she doesn't like to see the kids suffer.

 

We got both and I agree with the pp about Autism and the link to vaccines not being valid. If I were to not get one of those vaccines it would be the Chicken pox one... But I chose to get both. Good luck in your decision

 

I agree with everyone else, all my kids have been vaccinated on the ped's schedule, although I'm not averse to spacing things out, I do think vaccinations are important

 

TY EVERYONE!