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Mar 18th 2009 | 9:14 am

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Re: Vaccinations for school

Kids definitely need the Hep B to enter school. I would talk to your GP office and ask them if you can have the course in a shorter period of time - it is possible.

Mar 18th 2009 | 9:19 am

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Re: Vaccinations for school

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Originally Posted by neil

We're also trying to spread the necessary ones out more than the official schedule and we haven't run into problems yet, but luckily our daycare isn't in your face about getting their records updated until they are forced to hand it over.

Once we have kids, this is what we plan to do. I glanced through the vacc schedule one time at the dr's office, and I could not believe the number of vaccs kids are getting today! I know I did not get anywhere near that many! I'm not a child development expert by any means, but even I would think so many vaccs in a very short period of time could have unforeseen consequences. I have no problem with the vaccs themselves, I just want the option to give them to my child when I chose to, not when some government official says (who is probably owned by the pharmaceutical comps anyways).

Mar 18th 2009 | 11:30 pm

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Re: Vaccinations for school

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Originally Posted by Englishtart

...I would not let him have the MMR if I was a new Mom today, I think there is too much of a risk for autism with that one.

Actually the MMR-autism link was massively discredited in recent months when it was discovered the 'scientist' faked his research on the link between the two. There was a good series of articles in the Times a few weeks ago.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle5683671.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle5683643.ece

Mar 19th 2009 | 12:25 am

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Re: Vaccinations for school

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Originally Posted by penguinsix

We were planning to do the single shots rather than the MMR but not for the autism reason, but because they are apparently more effective separated. However, only one company makes them and everywhere is out of stock, and the company isn't planning on making any more until next year apparently. We're going to Europe next month and there's been a high incidence of measles there in recent months so we had it done so she's covered.

Mar 19th 2009 | 12:29 am

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Re: Vaccinations for school

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The other thing that can suck doing it that way is that sometime insurance won't pay for it. We had an option for some shots recently and the doc was like 'you can get the standard 3 shots or you can have this new wunder-shot that does it all at once'. So we called the insurance to see and they're like 'no, the new one isn't covered. You have to get the old version of all three.'

What a pain in the butt...(literally for the kid).

Mar 19th 2009 | 12:42 am

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Yes, we would have had to pay for the separate ones, and we had to find them ourselves - which was the tough part as nowhere has them.

Mar 19th 2009 | 1:58 am

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Re: Vaccinations for school

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Originally Posted by Dougster75

BTW we got notification from attorney that L1B all approved today! Interview next...

When we were in the US, the missus visited a prospective school who gave her a list of necessary vaccinations for the kids to have done before they could start. It included 3 doses for Hepatitis-B.

So she visited the local nurse today to see about getting the kids jabbed for Hep-B. In order to do 3 doses, they could have 1 now, 1 in a month and the last in 6 months time.

The problem is that we are hoping to move out before the end of this US school year and so wouldn't have time for the final one. Does this mean the kids wouldn't be able to attend school until 6 months away?

Appreciate any advice or experiences. I did do a bit of a search but couldn't find anything quite right...

Thanks,

Doug.

Another one to look out for that we got caught out on with our girls is the chickenpox immunization, if your kids have had chickenpox I would get a letter to confirm this from the doctor/nurse or you will be required to have the shot for school also.

Mar 19th 2009 | 2:46 am

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Re: Vaccinations for school

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Originally Posted by robskatie

Chickenpox is an interesting one. We will try to wait as long as possible to give that one, but I was reading an article where a doctor was saying even though his kids had chicken pox he will still make sure they get the shot. The reasoning was that with the shot so widespread there are less occurrences of chicken pox and therefore you will not be exposed to it as much and this means that the natural immunity you get from having had it is not maintained as it would have been in the past when the vaccine wasn't given. Makes sense really.