My grand daughter is due to get the MMR vaccine and my daughter is in a quandry as to what to do?

Should she have it or not? She is concerned with the possible connection between this vaccine and autism.

There is no established link between MMR & autism. However, there is a link between measles & blindness or death in children, between mumps & sterility, and between rubella and deformed births. Get the jab!

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I studied the MMR vaccine scares in Biology... there is nothing to worry about it.

Have the vaccine, it could save her life one day.

Have the jab, my daughter in law was in the same quandry but grandson OK.

she could pay to have it as 3 seperate injections.

Get the vaccine.

Measles is on the rapid increase and can kill a child. My friend's daughter caught it at a year old because another child wasn't vaccinated. Thankfully she survived it.

Please ensure she gets the jab and also must have the booster at around 4.

There is zero link so far with autism.

Well all three of my kids have had it, they're fine.

There is no point worrying about things like that, give the kids their vaccinations, buy some Calpol and get on with it. Its just one of those things that you do, vaccinate your kids, what are the chances of autism following vaccination, not alot, autism could happen without the vaccination, the child could get run over by a bus, could fall over a wall, anything could happen, stop worrying and vaccinate the kids.

PLEASE!
Don't let isolated or radical and unsubstantiated rumors stop her from getting your granddaughter inoculated. The MMR is required to get into school and for activities her whole life.

Get the shot. It will protect her from terrible illnesses.

She has to get it if she is going to go to school. And, there is no connection to the vaccine causing autism.

That autism stuff was unproven bollocks, and the situation was made worse by the Daily Mail getting hysterical.

My daughter had it, there's nothing wrong with her. In fact, nothing bad has happened to any of the kids I've known to have the vaccine.

I think it's pretty selfish NOT to have it, because it's promoting the spread of an infectious and potentially life-threatening illness. Is the tiny/non-existent risk of mental illness preferable to a dead child - or more than one?

If there is no connection between the MMR and Autism, then the BMA has a funny way of showing it.

Providing separate vaccinations for those who were concerned, would have reassured everybody that the potential existence of a problem was being taken seriously. Very few people would have exercised this option, because a single vaccine is more convenient. Most would have been reassured by the 'weight of evidence' in favour of the safety of MMR.

By refusing to allow access to the separate vaccines (which are privately available), the government and the medical authorities have portrayed themselves as commercially biased. The decision has caused many people to doubt the validity of the safety evidence.

('Safety evidence' must be provided by all pharmaceutical manufacturers, in order to get any medicine approved for use. The list of cases where this evidence has been faulty, or even fictitious, but has still led to a license, is very long.)

There are support groups for parents of children affected by vaccines, including those who believe that MMR triggered autism. Comparing their campaign material with the official campaign for the single vaccine (and general vaccination as a whole), would allow an informed decision to be made.

See :

www.speakout.org.uk

www.jabs.org.uk

www.mmrthefacts.nhs.uk

www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page286.as...

www.vaccinetruth.org/mmr.htm

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I believe they just had a study that showed autism was at 17% in one form or another, for both children that received the MMR and those that had not received it. Most schools require it.

The Health Protection Agency carried out research amid concerns that many parents are not immunising their children.

Research linking MMR to autism has been widely discredited in medical circles.

The latest annual figures showed just 62% of toddlers in south-east London, had been immunised. Health experts say the figure should be 95%.

The World Health Organization says that is the level needed to provide "herd immunity", protecting everyone against the diseases.

I am afraid the arguments for single vaccines do not hold water, In case you didn't know it the doctor who started this whole disaster 10 years ago, is currently under investigation for his practises by the GMC. No other country in Europe, nor the States where litigation is so rife, feels there is a valid issue with regards to the risk benefit ratio of MMR.

Single vaccines are illegal in UK and doctors who administer or supply them are at risk of censure. There have been concerns about the quality and lack of safety data for some of these single vaccines, many of which apparently are illegally imported from the old Eastern Bloc. Additionally because of parents understandable, but unfounded, concerns there is currently a significant epidemic of measles. A number of the children who do get measles may be permanently damaged.

About a million people a year DIE from measles worldwide. Most of them are children.

In the United States, most younger people have never even seen anyone with measles.

If parents who (blessedly) have access to the vaccine continue to act upon unsubstantiated claims of damage from vaccinations, those younger people will not only begin seeing kids with measles, but attending their funerals.

Lazla
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Your daughter should absolutely get her daughter vaccinated! If people stop vaccinating thier children then the measles and mumps which were things of the past will reappear and will have the potential to be deadly.
If she does not get her child the vaccine I hope she's prepared to home school her child.
There is no proof that vaccines cause autism! What's worse? Having the child get autism or ending up dead from a preventable disease?

if she wants her to ever go to school she has to get it