Will you vaccinate?

Airynn Chica · March 2014

Insurance covers vaccines in the US?????!! That's awesome--not here

ksulli · March 2014

We had a fully vaccinated child at DD's school who had measles. Not a good time. All the other kids needed to go finish their vax ahead of schedule, and I have no idea what the recceomendation was for infants who hadn't received any of the set yet.

HNRomance · March 2014

LalaMama81 said:

AcaAwkward said:

We spread them out a little bit but we vaccinate.

This. I don't get 4-5 vaccines at a time for my infant, but they are fully caught up by the time they start preschool.

I think people are right to initially question the process - how many shots, what are they for, what is the schedule, why is it like that, etc. The issue is often where they get their info from, if they are saying, "but autism!" and the like. I choose not to do anything blindly and w/o asking questions or reading - from my maternity care to my well-baby visits to the rest of my own health care. Vaccines included.

agreed to all this. we will space out schedule

Pandamom416 · March 2014

I understand the reasons behind people not doing chicken pox (not what I will do but I understand) but please make sure your child gets either the natural disease ( which is less and less common due to the vax) or the 2 doses of varicella before adolescence. Chickenpox as a disease course gets worse the older you have it. It's less and less likely your child will contract chickenpox naturally these days. Just FYI.

ekf25 · March 2014

ColleenSwerb said:

To be fair most of them also don't think the diseases are that serious, or they know they can mostly rely on herd immunity.
Which is crazy (to me), if you look up the diseases. And correct me if I'm wrong, but generally if a vaccinated person gets say, measles, isn't it a less severe case than if an unvaccinated person gets it?

It should sound crazy! People, especially pregnant mothers and infants, are hospitalized and die from these diseases!

As for partial protection for vaccinated people, the general idea is that it will reduce severity. Assuming the individual is not immunocompromised (which could mean the vaccine did not effectively produce memory cells) they will mount an immune response faster than a non-vaccinated person. The reason they were not fully protected is that the virus has mutated one of the parts that your immune system recognizes (antigens). However, vaccines prime your immune system to several key antigens to try to prevent this possibility. So a mutant form will likely still trigger some of your memory cells and your immune system will be faster at mounting a full response. The faster you mount an immune response to an infection, the faster you'll get better!

In short: even if a vaccine fails to prevent a disease, it will still help your immune system respond faster.

LittleLady77 · March 2014

^ great info. I guess I was pretty uneducated on the topic.

snowclouds · March 2014

ekf25 said:

ColleenSwerb said:

To be fair most of them also don't think the diseases are that serious, or they know they can mostly rely on herd immunity.
Which is crazy (to me), if you look up the diseases. And correct me if I'm wrong, but generally if a vaccinated person gets say, measles, isn't it a less severe case than if an unvaccinated person gets it?

It should sound crazy! People, especially pregnant mothers and infants, are hospitalized and die from these diseases!
As for partial protection for vaccinated people, the general idea is that it will reduce severity. Assuming the individual is not immunocompromised (which could mean the vaccine did not effectively produce memory cells) they will mount an immune response faster than a non-vaccinated person. The reason they were not fully protected is that the virus has mutated one of the parts that your immune system recognizes (antigens). However, vaccines prime your immune system to several key antigens to try to prevent this possibility. So a mutant form will likely still trigger some of your memory cells and your immune system will be faster at mounting a full response. The faster you mount an immune response to an infection, the faster you'll get better!
In short: even if a vaccine fails to prevent a disease, it will still help your immune system respond faster.

That is a great explanation of how vaccines work. It makes it easy for us, the general public, to get it.

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