[Solved] MMR good or bad?

I love this bit from the BBCs report on this: "And the panel hearing the case took exception with the way he gathered blood samples. Dr Wakefield paid children £5 for the samples at his son's birthday party."

..."so little Johnnie did you have a nice time? Goodness! Five pounds! That is a nice party bag. So what did you get up to?"

All of ours had the MMR. We researched it (news, Internet) for our eldest and decided it was scaremongering. Quite often with this sort of thing, we also ask the opinions of the nurses at our local surgery. I always kinda feel that they don't have an agenda, but do have an informed opinion. Of course, I'll review this theory at the point when extra arms start to grow from my children's heads.

My biggest issue at the time was that I felt the government maybe could have done more to quell the rumours. It's important to vaccinate against disease; that's how we make it a thing of the past. The respective diseases, M, M and R were pretty common when I was young, but I know no one who has contracted measles or mumps since being a parent. I'm not aware of anyone having rubella either; although obviously there are more scares because of the implications during pregnancy.

We had both our kids done as the thought of them getting any of these was too much, mumps for boys is very serious and as I havent had it I would be very worried about them catching it.

It has been sensationalised and that is wrong - the welfare of our kids is the primary concern.

We spoke to our doctor prior to him giving it and he was excellent in re-assuring us

Mario

My kids had all of them - it's the same with any disease and vaccination etc, you are playing with statistics and you just have to decide which way you are going to 'place your bet'.

My sister didn't have her children vaccinated - she is a pharmacist and very well read on a lot of things and didn't see the point of having her daughter vaccinated against mumps when it affects boys mostly. I know she wasn't against the separate vaccinations, so I'm not sure if they were vaccinated for some of the diseases.

Both of ours got the MMR. We did not anguish about it too much, as everyone we knew who had it was fine. We also thought that not having it and worrying about them catching Measles was not worth the chance, especially with Measles on the rise.
Our nurse was good about answering our questions as well.

Have to say, glad that we got it done.

None of my 3 had the MMR, my youngest because she had kidney reflux problems and the consultant she was under at the time said it was not advisable.

If an H+NHS consultant says no don't do it who am I to say go ahead.

Touchwood she is 14, healthy and none the worse for not having the jabs.

But I did get many comments and knowing looks from health practioners when I said she hadn't had the jabs and wouldn't be having them

mags