Nephew had MMR Vax last week and still sick....

[mamamoogs]

This is kinda a two part question, well my nephew who is 15 months old had the mmr vax last week and woke up sometime shortly after it wth a 103 feverand vomiting and my brother and sil think this is normal for the doctor told them to maybe expect this, well now almost a week later is is still lathargic and somewhat sick... I told them this needs to be reported they think i am nuts and overreacting. should it be reported?

Ok next question, my dd is five months old and hasnt had any shots since she was two months, which i regert doing, but she will most likley have no more, now i dont feel it is safe for dd to be around my nephew tonight do you agree or is it ok for to be around him beings he just had his shots last week?

I also will start another thread on how my nephew has hada pain in his ankle and hasnt be able to walk right around the time he had his twelve month shots, but i was post that later.....

Ok

[CallMeIshmael]

The answer to both questions depends on whether this is a vaccine reaction or an unrelated GI virus (there are tons of these going around right now.)

Here's some info from the British National Health Service that does a good job of explaining the timing of MMR reactions.

Basically, one set of reactions consist of an immediate hypersensitivity to something in the vaccine -- this is the classic swollen-throat difficulty-breathing thing that's known as anaphylaxis, and it generally occurs within minutes after the vax.

Then you can get side effects from the virus itself. The earliest you generally see these are 7-10 days after the shot. The reason for this is that you're given only a tiny quantity of virus in the injection. This has to go through a whole process of replication and immune activation, and it tends to take a minimum of a week to do so (average 9-10 days). So the classic viral side effect of the measles component of MMR is fever + rash + feeling generally crappy for a few days starting 1-2 weeks after the shot. Rubella tends to be the same, though less severe. Mumps shows up several weeks later.

If your nephew's symptoms showed up within a few days of the shot, I'd be much more inclined to blame them on an unrelated GI infection -- in all likelihood something he picked up at the doctor's office. The incubation period of these things tends to be 24-48 hours. There might still be a connection to the MMR, though -- his immune system could conceivably have gotten distracted by the vax and allowed another bug to slip through. The IOM reports that this kind of thing is theoretically possible, although I don't think anybody's studied it carefully yet.

Should your brother and sil report it? Up to them. Should you keep your dd away from your nephew? Depends on whether you buy the unrelated-virus explanation or not. MMR and its side effects are not contagious. GI viruses, by contrast, tend to be exceedingly contagious.

[amybw]

so sorry to hear this. I dont have the answers for you, i just have my experience.
MY DS was sick for 2 weeks. Threw up that night, then threw up a weeklater, two days in a row. high fever and then covered in the rash...

someone on here suggested i give him more vitamin c and a. I would suggest that to your family.
Report it? I doubt if my Dr did. He doesnt think it is related I am working on doing it myself.

hope he gets better soon


Amy