hiya

just been watching the local news and there's been an outbreak of measles again

I don't know if your kids have all had their MMR injections or separate ones but this disease scares the life out of me

when I was 13 one of the girls in my class got measles as did her 4 year old twin brothers - Kevin died and Stevie was left totally deaf!

rubella can be really nasty too and can cause awful deformities in unborn babies

both mine have had their MMR so hopefully should be safe from the new outbreak

what does everyone else think? or am I being paranoid because of what happened when I was a kid

I don't think you're being paranoid at all, it is a nasty disease and more serious than I think most people realise, I used to think it was along the lines of chicken pox etc but it is so much worse. Both my children had the mmr, unfortunately though both time I had to take them for it were the 2 times there was loads in the news about the mmr jab and I was in tears while they had it thinking what I could be doing to them BUT I know that the diseases are worse than the possible side affects so I'm glad I did it :grin:

Both of mine had the MMR, we did consider paying for them to have the seperate Jabs, but the MMR has been around since the early 1980's (at least) surely if there were issues with it, then they would have been proved and sorted long ago. My mate was telling me this last night, she lives in London, I don't watch the news so not sure if it is around here also.

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i saw this on the news and i said back when people were refusing the jabs that we would end up with an epidemic. It said surrey i think was worst. 70 something cases last year and already this year there has been 440 something with a 13 year old dead!! surely the fact that the risk was never proven and that we know for certain the dangers of measles that should be enough for people to want their kids immunised? i think it was more of a jump on the bandwagon rather than an actual fear , at least with the mothers i spoke to who were refusing it it appeared to be

Both my kids have had the MMR jab, i think mothers that deny their kids it are irresponsible, listening to something that isnt proven is stupid rather than protecting your kids from something as dangerous as measles!!

i agree lewis is due his MMR now he is turning one i had a letter onyl yesterday about it

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I was actuallt naive to think that parents opting out of the MMR would have arranged for them to be immunised with sperate Jabs, fair enough... but it didn't actually occur to me that people would just leave there kids without immunisations and put them at risk

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that bloody doctor who wrote a report on the link between MMR & autism has a lot to answer for thats all I can say. I was in tears when liam had his in 2003, & I'm dreading Charlie having his, but he will. Its the doubt that gets me. I have 2 friends, not close, whose children have mild autism & they're both convinced it was the MMR. It frightens the life out of me

mothers whos children are diagnosed as autistic i think are just looking for a reason rather than it just happening for no reason if you know what i mean? Its just that it all happens at about the same time too as kids cant be diagnosed before that age!

scares the life out of me

trouble is autism doesn't show itself until around 12-18 months which is when children have their MMR

a friend of my Mum's son was OK til he reached about 15 months then developed autism & he didn't have the MMR as he will be almost 40 now