Hi to cut a long story short i decided not to allow my 1 yr old to get the MMR. Yes yes i know the study has been discredited and all that but in my opinion there are enough parents out there complaining about its side effects for me to decide against it. So i decided to give to my son the individual ones instead (go private) only to find out that the manufacturer of the single mumps vaccine does not produce it anymore, effectively forcing parents to go with the MMR option, which i simply will not do. Now i know that most of you will tell me off and start explaining the benefits of the MMR but please remember that i have made up my mind. I will still give my child the measles and rubbella individual vaccines but as the mumps vaccine is not available i am opting for natural immunity, which means i want my child to catch mumps at a young age (as it is only dangerous if caught in teenage/adult years). Thus i come to my question/request. Please let me know if any of your children currently have mumps as i am willing to travel to you with my little boy to ensure he catches it young.
PS i am not some weirdo i just want to protect my son the natural and safe way
Thanks
I am in the UK
Dear Elf. . . . . insulting me or my choices as a parent does not make you clever. if the rest of the population is immunised anyway (as all of you appear to think) then noone will be in danger because of my little boy having mumps. In any case mumps does NOT kill and is not dangerous at all when caught young. . . .
Ooh my god. . . you people re so misinformed! Mumps is not that dangerous and is only dangerous in teenage/adult years as i said before. if my child does not catch mumps by the age of 10-11 (and assuming the single shot is still not available by then) then i could safely agree to the MMR anyway as his neurological and immune system would be fully developed thus eliminating ANY risk. You are all so pro vaccines but do you actually know that the MMR does not provide immunity for the rest of your lives?? You need to keep giving yourselves boosters every 10 years!! Are you telling me that you are doing that? if not then you are at risk yourselves and the you put the rest of the population at risk anyway. Life long immunity is only given if you actually catch the disease,,READ UP ON THINGS. And before you call me silly, misinformed or simply stupid let me tell you that i have a PhD in biology and i work in the pharmaceutical industry. . . Yep thats right i work in the pharmaceutical industry!
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8 Responses to “Mumps party……………………….!?”
why wantyou let him have t eh mmr
Just use statistics and see what your child chances of dying are… being vaccinated (less virulence pathogen) or getting infected with the live virus (more virulence pathogen).
“The Natural Way” might not be the “Safe Way” as you seem convinced.
BTW, I had mumps the “natural way” and didn’t die.
How about using your scientific findings (parents complaining about side effects) to refuse antibiotics for infections as well. Are you going all the way and really gamble or just limit it to Mumps?
How does antibiotics side effects stack up against the MMR? I mean, using your research algorithm.
pattyjo1999 seems so typical. It’s been over a decade that Dr Andrew Wakefield claim that MMR causes autism has been discredited. Actually happens sometime well before birth… within the first few weeks of development. And the “suggestion” still continues through the non scientific community. For instance: Doctors thought she was a nut because she was an advocate for anti-nuke. Yeah, right, that would make a “nurse sneak up on her kid” and commit a federal crime by injecting a child without parent’s approval. Now let’s see… how many millions of dollars could she win in a lawsuit proving they gave her daughter autism? And the punitive damage from the criminal behavior of the nurse… maybe another 10 or 20 million. No tort reform here in the USA… if you can prove it, you get rich, rich, rich.
Let’s see… what are the chances of you reading a “weirdo’s claim” on the internet verses having a child develop complications of MMR?
“There is no evidence that giving the vaccines separately is safer and no country currently advocates doing this. In fact, giving the doses separately means that it takes much longer for a child to be fully immunised meanwhile leaving the child unprotected from infection. ”
Once again we have a mother smarter than the experts and want us to believe it isn’t “ignorance” but simply a “weirdo.”
She can not show us statistical evidence that infecting her child with a virulence pathogen is safer than the MMR. She is simply guessing since she does not have the ability to prove her “guess.” So instead of gambling with her money not knowing the “odds” she will gamble with her own child.. also not knowing the odds.
It’s simply amazing. You see all things around here.
Wow, I doubt anyone who uses the internet will admit they skipped the shots.
In America they gave my daughter the MMR twice because they thought I was a nut job who forged the shot certificate in order to avoid the shot. A few seconds after the second shot the fax from my old pediatrician came into the new one’s office with documentation of the first shot.
Did I complain? A little, but all the three pediatricians I talked to said it’s better to have two than none, and since I was an advocate for anti-nukes, and well known for it, they assumed I was a no shot person too.
The nurse literally snuck up behind me and shot up my kid while I was folding up my REAL vaccine records. She still works there.
You guys have a lot of freedom when it comes to kids, now don’t you?
i know there is a lot of discreditably of the MMR jab, but i believe that the jab has not changed since i had it and there is nothing wrong with me. i also believe that if you are going to get some form of illness/disability (or whatever you want to call it) then you will get it regardless, therefore it is just coincidence.
I grew up before the mumps vaccine was available so my mom had her own mumps party.
My oldest brother caught it, so he, and me, and our two other siblings had to share a room until we were well and infected. We drove him nuts being well and in his room while he was sick, then later he drove us nuts when all three of us were sick, and he was well, parading outside the bedroom window.
Mumps parties, chicken pox parties and the like were quite common before the vaccinations were available.
With all that being said – odds of you finding someone with mumps these days are very slim. Nearly everyone is vaccinated, and as a result, people just don’t come down with mumps like they used to.
I will say nothing about your decision, because it is your decision to make.
u have lost the plot!!!!
u need to re-evaluate ur prioritys.
wot if he doesnt catch mumps at this age? wot if he does catch them wen he’s a teen/adult???
u are leaving him wide open all for some minoritys belief.
get a grip, i have never heard anything so outragous as a mumps party
Known complications of mumps include:
Infection of other organ systems
Mumps viral infections in adolescent and adult males carry an up to 30% risk that the testes may become infected (orchitis or epididymitis), which can be quite painful; about half of these infections result in testicular atrophy, and in rare cases sterility can follow.
Spontaneous abortion in about 27% of cases during the first trimester of pregnancy.
Mild forms of meningitis in up to 10% of cases[17] (40% of cases occur without parotid swelling)
Oophoritis (inflammation of ovaries) in about 5% of adolescent and adult females, but fertility is rarely affected.
Pancreatitis in about 4% of cases, manifesting as abdominal pain and vomiting
Encephalitis (very rare, and fatal in about 1% of the cases when it occurs)
Profound (91 dB or more) but rare sensorineural hearing loss, uni- or bilateral. Acute unilateral deafness occurs in about 0.005% of cases.
another good example of an irresponsible parent when it comes to vaccines. If you’re going to do the measles and rubella anyway then why not just do the MMR and be done with it? Good grief. This is the dumbest and most messed up thing I’ve read from another parent. No wonder kids get sick and spread germs all around everywhere.
There is no guarantee that you’re kid would even contract mumps from being exposed somewhere either. If you’re going to do the “natural way” then why vaccinate for measles? rubella? polio? anything. This kind of logic of “vaccinate this not that” makes no sense.
It’s because of parents who don’t vaccinate their kids that I vaccinate mine. My son has had ALL his shots, even the MMR they offer for younger kids and there were no side effects with it. Besides, how many sane, normal and responsible parents do you know that would tell a stranger on the internet “sure come on over. My kid has mumps and you can move in with us for a week so yours gets it too”.. I don’t think so.
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