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Originally Posted by DPline
My understanding (as a Mom, not a medical professional) is the concern is for children who have been immunized but the immunization wasn't effective (not many people have titers done to see if their child has full immunity) and younger children who have not had their full schedule of immunizations yet. And then also adults who are immune suppressed due to diseases, medications, etc.
(I do understand that their are valid reasons at times for not immunizing children or following a delayed schedule. I am just responding to SupaModel's statement. It is not ment as a critcisim of anyone here's choices, as I don't know your particular situation.  ) |
I am an RN who has been vaccinated for measles MULTIPLE times. I am not immune. There was recently a measles outbreak in our city. One of my patients had a theoretical exposure to the measles. I was unwilling to get the vaccine again given how many times I've had it. Mainly I was unwilling to get it again because I am nursing my son. According to the vaccine manufacturer, a nursing mom can give all three of the diseases to their nursling. Although I was not too concerned about my son getting measles, I didn't want him to have the theoretical chance to have all the diseases at once. Even bigger than that, we never know when we'll get THE call about a baby. Since I will nurse the baby, I could not even risk the theoretical transmission of even one disease to a newborn. I could also not risk getting measles from my patient and giving it to a newborn. I was not concerned about my 2.5 year old getting it, but for a newborn it could be devastating. So, I stayed away from that patient during her theoretical contagious period. Of course she never got the disease and my paycheck was short and the baby never came, but oh well.