do u give shots if your child is sick?

Re: do u give shots if your child is sick?

• Assembly_Reqd member

  October 2011

  If Nate has a fever of ANY sort, I will postpone vaccinations for another day. If it is the sniffles, probably not. I would call your pedi and ask to reschedule. I wouldn't want to push my child's immune system too far if he is already fighting off something more than sniffles.

  I think a lot of the answers you will get from here will depend on what 'other' diagnosis their child has (i.e. epilepsy, neurological deficits, immunity disfunction, etc)

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• kar5162 member

  October 2011

  I postpone for anything but sniffles.  Diarreah, fever, hacking cough, etc.  I try to reschedule 2 weeks out so I don't delay too long, but I don't want to take the risk of overloading him when he's already sick.

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• ToastieSimons member

  October 2011

  I do not give shots if my child is sick.  He has pretty severe reactions to vaccines and also to illnesses, we never have a case of just the sniffles.

  I'm not sure what you're story is but DS has enough going on that he doesn't need to be building up antibodies to a vaccine while trying to recover from an illness.

  We just postpone it. 

  However, DS is not in daycare and isn't exposed to much so I don't feel it's *that* big of a deal to delay vaccines by a month or two.

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• MaxandRuby member

  October 2011

  Our pediatrician will not do the vaccinations if the child is sick. If I had a choice of having them done or not, I would not vaccinate if my child was sick.
  

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