College needs my shot records to attend but I do not have any
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OP, check first with your school to see exactly which vaccinations you are required to have to attend.
For example, the U of MD requires students to provide evidence of vaccinations for Measles, Mumps and Rubella (or have titers drawn). That's it -- they don't require proof of DTaP, Varicella, etc. but they are listed as "optional for your good health" If you will live in the dorms they want you have a vaccine for meningitis as well. Then there's a screening for TB. Your school might be similar -- just because they ask you about DTaP etc doesn't mean it is required for admission. |
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| Aren't you supposed to get boosters every 10 yrs or so? If you have no idea when you were vaccinated, then it was long enough ago that you need a booster. Go get it. You pass things on, like whooping cough, to an unvaccinated infant without actually getting sick yourself. Just get vaccinated and be done with it. You'll be up to date and you'll have the records going forward. You'll be immune against tetanus if you cut yourself in the kitchen. |
Anonymous
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If your parents are no longer around or do not have your shot records in their possession, then let the school know.
They may recommend you see a Dr. and/or receive the shots all over again. Good luck! |
Anonymous
| Elementary/ middle/high schools may have the info as well. But I agree, get Torres drawn and just get what you need. |
Anonymous
Not the OP, but the OP needs to think outside the box with logic like this. I started a 4 year school beyond the norm, and had to provide shot records as well. My mother had them, and I got a few boosters from my primary care physician and had no issues with the college after that. I can't believe the OP's parents don't have this. There are certain things that parents should hold to or give to their kids when they are on their own, this and original birth certificate are two of those things. |
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Wow, you don't understand autocorrect, do you? - NP |
Anonymous
It's not hard to believe. I only have my childhood medical records because I had to submit them when I applied to the Air Force. However, I knew where to get them because (1) I had the same doctor throughout childhood; (2) his practice was still around; and (3) my parents are very educated people who know these things and told me what to do. Not everyone is so lucky with any of these counts. If I had to supply records from my college and law school years, when I sporadically saw nurses at the awful university clinic, it would be much harder. OP, since you don't know whom you saw as a child, here's what you should do: 1. Find out exactly which vaccinations the college requires. Look on the form or call whoever is listed on the form and ask. 2. Go to CVS or urgent care and get titers drawn to see if you are immune for the various disease listed on your form. Call ahead to make sure they can do this so you don't waste a trip. 3. Get vaccinated for the ones for which you are not immune. CVS or urgent care can do this. 4. Keep copies of your titer results and vaccinations in case you have to provide proof in the future, and so you remember to get boosters as needed. 4. Establish a relationship with a primary care provider going forward so that you have someone to coordinate this stuff. Now you are 30, you may start thinking about things like kids or what not in the future that will make your own health more of a priority, and most specialists ask for a primary care doctor for their records. |
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| I'm 40 years old and if I had to produce my shot records from when I was a kid I would have no idea where or how to get them. I do vaguely remember my parents having a physical "shot card" that was stamped with various things when I was a kid, but we moved around a lot because my dad was in the military. It isn't unbelievable that the OP doesn't have easy access to their shot records. |
Anonymous
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OP I'm a school nurse. Find out the required shots, go to an urgent care and get titers drawn. Whatever you are not immune to get the shots. Done.
PS - cvs can't draw titer levels |
Anonymous
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I work in university health- DC does
Not require this For students over 26 unless you are maybe doing healthcare work and then you can have titers drawn to show immunity- usually what they care about is chicken pox, mmr, and hep b. They may also want a tb test for clinicals. DC has among the most stringent vaccine requirements and at 30 years old even they don't require you track down your polio and hib vaccines from childhood. Univerdities have a lot of international students, many without health records. They've gotten this figured out. |
Anonymous
Try contacting the university health center-they can draw what you need probsbly |
Anonymous
| Seriously op if you can't remember getting boosters as a teen then you're long long overdue and need to get boosters. Just go get them. Keep yourself and everyone you come in contact with safe and healthy. |
Anonymous
When I needed my childhood immunization records at 42, I got them from my high school. It took them a week to pull them off the microfiche, but they had them. If you can't find them, ask your doctor to run titers for all of the diseases they need vaccines for. That will show that you are immune to them, or that you need new shots as boosters. |
Anonymous
You are very sheltered. |