just my random musing after reading another thread...
my ds1 got one dose of oral polio in 1994. the nurse told me she could do a shot or let him drink a vial of sweet yummy liquid. i was 17 and didnt know a thing about anything, but in my mind avoiding the pain of even one prick was something good i could do for my son, so he got one dose of oral polio (next booster, they told me they had stopped using it and went 100% to the shot, never told me why, i learned it here a decade later)
no one ever asked me if my son would have contact with an immunocompromised person. my mother was in the end stages of AIDS at the time. she died when ds was 3.5 mos old, would have anyway, but it just hit me that no one ever mentioned that risk when offering the oral vax.
my ds1 got one dose of oral polio in 1994. the nurse told me she could do a shot or let him drink a vial of sweet yummy liquid. i was 17 and didnt know a thing about anything, but in my mind avoiding the pain of even one prick was something good i could do for my son, so he got one dose of oral polio (next booster, they told me they had stopped using it and went 100% to the shot, never told me why, i learned it here a decade later)
no one ever asked me if my son would have contact with an immunocompromised person. my mother was in the end stages of AIDS at the time. she died when ds was 3.5 mos old, would have anyway, but it just hit me that no one ever mentioned that risk when offering the oral vax.
Sorry
