My Childhood Vaccinations. Wow.

[anewmama]

I am somewhat stunned. I have looked at my vax record but not in great detail. Even while I have been reading all this, I just have not wanted to ever really study what is written. The dates are kind of all over because this is how the record is. A piece was stapled onto the booklet and at the back. so some of the following dates are out of order.

I was born on 9/6/1964. I lived in Virginia until I was 6 and then we moved to Africa.

10/64 Sabin I (one month after I was born)
12/64 Sabin III
1/65 Sabin II (not sure why the order is written like this, 3 before 2)
6/65 Measles
4/66 Trivalent B (? no idea what this is)
8/21/69 Trivalent B
9/66 DPT (booster)
3/8/68 Tetanus
7/2/68 Mumps
2/6/68 TB Tine
5/1970 Rubella
10/28/ 1970 Plague #1
11/27/1970 Plauge #2
1/18/1971 DPT (booster)
5/3/1971 DPT (booster)
10/2/ 1971 Typhoid #1
11/20/1971 Typhoid #2
11/13/1972 TB Tine
12/27/1973 Typhoid
7/22/1974 Trivalent Polio
8/5/1974 GG (Gamma Globulin)
11/15/74 Diptheria / Tetanus
1/17/1975 GG
5/9/1975 GG
9/26/1975 GG
1/16/1976 GG
1/16/1976 TB Tine
5/28/1976 GG
9/30/1976 Typhoid
4/11/1976 GG (I had Hep A... I think this might be for so many in this time period)
4/7/1977 GG
9/8/1977 GG
8/10/1978 GG
10/21/1978 Diptheria (hard to read)
11/2/1978 Typhoid
1/29/1979 GG
6/8/1979 GG
11/17/1980 Typhoid
11/17/1980 GG
11/17/1980 TB Tine
6/15/1981 GG
5/25/1982 PDD (? Tuberculosis skin test?)


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Card #2

11/2/1970 Yellow Fever

11/20/1970 Smallpox
5/21/1974 smallpox

10/?/1970 Cholera
11/3/1970 Cholera
12/11/1970 cholera
8/11/1971 Cholera
2/22/1972 Cholera
8/17/1972 Cholera
2/12/1973 Cholera
9/2/1973 Cholera
1/11/1974 Cholera
7/22/1974 Cholera
1/10/1975 Cholera
6/2/1975 Cholera
12/9/1975 Cholera




This does not include the rabies vax that my mom started us on but we screamed so much that she did not take us back. I think she got it as well and it really hurt?



So Can you say EXCESSIVE GG?

If I read this right, I was given oral polio at one month of age? Sabin? I thought the Sabin was one dose of oral? I don't know what else Sabin would be for in this case. Anyone? But then I was given Polio again later in 1974. Probably the inactivated one?

I see a DPT booster in 9/1966, but no primary one. So not sure if they missed noting the first shots? Have no idea what Trivalent B is. Might that have been something with DPT? The first Trivalent was given 5 months before the first DPT which was given in 4/1966.


I had SEVEN Typhoid shots. But I guess it only last 3 years and we lived in Africa until I was 12 and then Haiti until 17 so I guess they were just continuously boosting it.

And per this page on Vaxes for Uganda, GG only lasts for a while so hence so many.

http://www.ugandamission.net/health/immunizations.html

Wow.

[newmum35]

Holy Cow. It is a wonder you have lived to tell about it lol

Do you remember getting most of these, since you were old enough (after the move at least) I assume you do?

What is GG?

[Tanibani]

Wow is right. I was born in 1969 in NYC and mine isn't THAT long. I'll post it when I get a chance.

[MissRubyandKen]

anewmama-

Was your family in the military?

[amnesiac]

I think your trivalent is actually oral polio. In the early 60s a monovalent OPV was licensed & then in'63 the trivalent OPV was licensed. Yes, Sabin is OPV but it was given as a series, not as just one dose, and 5 doses would have been common. Your 1974 dose would have been live, OPV.

You are correct about the typhoid - the duration is short so it does get repeated during continued exposure risk.

You may have gotten a DPT primary series that wasn't documented but looking at the number of DPT/DT etc that are documented, the "boosters" could possibly have actually been primary doses.

Since there wasn't hep A vaccine maybe they chose to use frequent GG as hep A prophylaxis instead. But after you recovered from hep A you should have been immune so it wouldn't have been necessary for that purpose - unless they didn't know that & thought you could get it repeatedly. But I believe that at certain points in history, GG has been used in high risk exposure situations like yours probably was for prophylaxis against other things like polio & measles.

[A&A]

GG is a shot but not a vax, technically. It's an immunity-booster (made from human plasma--scary.) I received GG every two weeks for several years. I STILL have the "track marks" on my hip to prove it.

[anewmama]

My father was in the foreign service, USAID.... not military. Though we did have access to the military bases where we lived if there was one. In Italy, where I lived after Haiti, we went to Naples and in Haiti, we were able to go to Guantanamo. Military planes brought military families to Haiti for a break and we go taken back to the base where we could shop in the PX for a day. Then they took us back and then brought back the military families. both places were so dismal that it was considered a "break" for everyone! *lol* but... of topic.

The GG part has me amazed that I didn't end up with some blood disease as I am sure blood screening was not as sophisticated as it is today.

[kittynurse]

Wow! That is a lot of vaccines!

To answer your question about Rabies vaccine - yes, it hurts like heck and makes you feel like crap afterwards.

I'm a veterinary technician and had to get the vaccine in order to attend my school. Fortunately for me my immunity always stayed high enough that I never needed to get a booster while I was working. Now that I am a SAHM, I haven't been checking my status.

Martha