Comments on: Vax, tonsils and other health related worries

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:50:17 +0000

yeah, think its stuffed in with diptheria pertusis one

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:53:14 +0000

Tilda got drops about a year ago. She had 2 jabs anwyay for the preschool thing, does the polio go in one of them then?

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:02:14 +0000

polio now a jab rather than sugar lumps as no longer a live vaccine [i think!]
i was surprised by just hiow well sb took it though

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:12:59 +0000

Keep meaning to go and give blood again too, maybe that would help as well?

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:12:14 +0000

I wonder if I made you register at ours, then took Lije along to see C get hers done, if that would work?

Honestly, Poppy and Tilda, though seemingly ok about it beforehand, were awful. They’ve both seen me have blood taken millions of times and seen little sibs get jabbed no problem. Poppy threw a complete mental at her pre-school one, I just had to hold her arm still in the end whilst she screamed – and then admitted immediately afterwards that it hadn’t hurt at all. Tilda got through the jabs, and then went ape at the bloody polio drops! (Just looked that up on my blog actually, and I wrote “next time I’ll take my own sugar lumps” – someone remind me!)

I have gone before for the ‘informed consent’ route – the ‘ignorance is bliss’ option is appealing – take him in, in the summer perferably so he’s only in a T shirt and just get jabbed before he knows what’s going on – only drawback is the second one, lol! And of course the fact that he would then hate me …

By: layla

layla — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:13:25 +0000

oops sorry

By: layla

layla — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:12:51 +0000

C has had the full schedule (inc. BCG, though I couldn’t persuade them to let her have HepB (my major paranoia since I’m a non responder and was exposed to lots of blood in East London) that was when she was going to go to nursery full time at 3 months old and I was really worried about TB & HepB) – it isn’t something that I’ve agonised over, I am sure she’s safer vaxed. C hasn’t minded any of them – she had a HIb booster last year & knows that she’s due the MMR booster soon.

I have a horrible fear about an un-vaxed baby catching measles from older un-vaxed kids. Measles encephalitis terrifies me, SSPE is the stuff of nightmares.

By: layla

layla — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:12:34 +0000

I have a horrible fear about an un-vaxed baby catching measles from older un-vaxed kids. Measles encephalitis terrifies me, SSPE is the stuff of nightmares.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:04:47 +0000

helen btw.
LOL re hair brushing. though I can remeber me and my sister having a veruca, and getting the stuff out on, and then mumscraped it and dead skin off with a knife. I remember it being not painful, but my sister always screamed at her loudest ‘don#t do it mummy, not the knife, please’ and various other knife related screamings!
I got bored with my veruca in the end, and cut it out with razor blade – nor that *did* hurt!

By: Joyce

Joyce — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:52:37 +0000

Hannah is frighteningly matter of fact about having medical stuff done. She does her hypnosis, and then just closes her eyes and says “do it but don’t let me see it or tell me what you are doing”, and then puts her face in my neck till its over. However, I did ask her this morning if she had any tips, and her view was that you HAD to scream about something, so she made a fuss about hair combing, and maybe other children did it about jags. I’m not sure I quite follow her logic. But she does scream every morning when she gets her hair combed, accompanied by cries of “mummy mummy, please stop, don’t do it to me again, I can’t bear it”, at full volume, and usually near an open window.