Reply to How do you handle your kids being around unvaccinated children?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "How do you handle your kids being around unvaccinated children?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well...if your kid is vaccinated, then you have nothing to be concerned about.  It’s not like being unvaccinated is catching or anything.  [/quote]

Vaccines aren't 100% effective.[/quote]

This. At age 5 we discovered that my daughter had no DTAP immunity. This was done through blood titre trying to solve another issue. The dr said up to 20% of vaccinated kids don’t reach full immunity. We had to do extra DTAPs on top of the required schedule. She is just now at baseline but not “robust”- this is why EVERYONE who can be vaccinated should be vaccinated. Herd immunity is hard to achieve.  If I met a mom who didn’t vaccinate I wouldn’t be friends with her. I don’t have time for stupid.

[/quote]

But anyway, the "aP" part is pertussis (whooping cough), and the vaccine for that usually doesn't last longer than 12 months. I was getting my titers drawn a while ago to check my current status and my doc said not to even bother testing for pertussis even though I had one within the past few years, because unless it was literally within the last couple of months then it's almost certain that the titer wouldn't be high enough. That's why they tell women to get it every pregnancy, even if you have kids back-to-back, because the protection doesn't last long.[/quote]

I don't think Dtap should be made mandatory for school for this reason.  #1) my Ped said that there is literally no diptheria in this country right now and the odds of getting that are basically 0.  #2) my ped said that a child getting tetanus is extremely rare and almost 0 chance, #3) my ped said exactly what you are saying about the pertussis immunity part.  We got my daughter's titers checked at age 6 and included the pertussis and tetanus in the titers.  She had almost 0 immunity to pertussis but lots of immunity to tetanus.  She received the entire Dtap series.  Her ped did not recommend another Dtap since she had completed the series.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics