Per the CDC National Immunization Program Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule

the 4 month visit includes:

Dtap (does 2 of 5)
Hib (dose 2 of 4)
Polio (IPV) Dose 2 of 4
PCV7 (Dose 2 of 4)
Rotavirus (Dose 2 of 3)


If your child had a reaction after this visit would you post your reaction here. thank you.

My son ran a low-grade fever and was sleepy for about five days following this round of shots. He also acquired a blue-black mark on his leg at the injection site, about the size of a pin. The mark is still there (ds is now 14mo). The ped's office gave me three different answers about the mark until finally settling on this answer: The mark was from a lubricant on the needle, and it should go away "someday". He did not receive Rotateq at this visit.

This was when we decided to stop everything, and he's had nothing since.
I did not report the fever, somnolence, or strange mark to VAERS.

in case anyone needs to see a general thread on reactions.

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=587555&highlight=reaction

here is a DTaP reaction discussion

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=770772

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rotavirus reaction discussion

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=544079&highlight=rotavirus

are vax reactions hereditary---Discussion

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=707507&highlight=reactions

Hib vax reaction discussion

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=574076&highlight=varicella

sleepy,fever above a hundred about not a low hundred a high one

Hi,
My son Gabe had his first reaction to the DpT shot at his two month WBV checkup. He reacted with high pitched screaming that unbeknownst to me at the time, was related to brain swelling.
He also had a reaction to a second dose of DpT given at 4 yoa and a reaction to the flu shot given at 4 1/2 yoa and these will be discussed in the older child thread.

Michelle

My son was inconsolable for hours. He has not been able to relax properly since. He is ALWAYS tense. He never falls into that blissful palms open baby sleep anymore.

My twins only recieved HiB & DTaP at 4 mo check up
this was their second dose......they never had any other vax at any time.

both had low grade fevers. By day 4/5 my son was barking like a dog & wheezing. He ended up admitted for 3 days with RSV, came home & 3 days later he was readmitted with Rotavirus.

during this time of chaos, my dd ( above childs twin)started having brain swelling, which her fontanelle was bulging. She started puking by day 12 after vax, & I brought her in with concern of the bulging soft spot. Ped said it was due to the puking......it was being assumed that she was puking due to catching my sons Rotavirus. He sent us home........even though he knew she had a history of a known brain anomaly. She continued to deteriorate( high pitched screaming, no more babbling, lots of sleeping.....which went unnoticed having twins~ I was thankful for a sleeping child :( ) I took her to ped neurosurgeon......they admitted her then & there & did surgery the next morning.

No more vax since

this is the tread about my situation:

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=770772

Missbuns,
you should know that I have been wanting to make these individual threads for reactins based on well baby visits for a long time. perhaps a year or so. It was after I read your situation that I just sat down...and decided to DO IT. I was so upset about your situation that I really wanted to make it easier and clearer for people who either have had reactions or are concerned about them.

you pushed me over....:wink

Needless to say I have been here on mdc since '02 and have read about the babble stopping many times. Every time it is upsetting.
I am keeping a good thought that your situation improves!

hugs

DS got all shots as suggested up until, and including this round. This was in 04, so no rotavirus shot. He basically was very fussy, and had a red skin rash. Nothing really major, but enough for me to rethink what I was doing to my child.

This was when I found mothering.com and started my research. I got scared into one other shot :( but nothing else. Not really sure what caused his reaction, since they get sooo many at once.

:wink for moms to find.

My youngest had received all the recommended shots up until this appointment. We left after receiving them and she continued to scream and cry for the next 8 hours straight, not whimpering, full blown screaming. She ran a fever of 101 for 6 of those hours. It was after receiving the usual, "she'll be just fine give her tylenol" advice from the doc that I actually opened my eyes and started doing research about vaxes. I can proudly say that was the last time I put her through that. No more vaxes for us. Luckily I didn't see any other symptoms, except that she was babbling less for a few days but then seemed to be fine. She's gonna be 2 in November.

My son is now 3-1/2yo so no rotavirus when he was 4mo.

He had such an alarming reaction to his 2mo shots that the ped agreed to split the 4mo shots. He got them at 5mo (he was born at 35wks not fully developed to gestational age, but not horrible--9 days in NICU/SCN and went home no monitors, etc.). ETA: He received the shots in two doses: the first was for Hib (2nd) and PCV7 (2nd). Two weeks later, he got DTaP (2nd), IPV (2nd). The worst of it was after the second set of shots... I think he was still fighting off the first set.

It was my first child and I was in the hospital from 30wks--just as I learned that I might want to question vaxing. :( So I got bullied. Alot. Shocking if you know me--I'm totally not the type.

At 4 mo. his reactions were excessive mucous production and he would throw it up and it would then cover his muzzle area--causing him to stop breathing. I remember carrying him down the stairs, him vomiting like this, and then FREEZING in panic--barely able to scream for my husband because he was turning blue. His temp dropped (at one point) to 95.9 degrees (ped blew it off to the house being too cold--and it was cool, but...). Slept A LOT.

ETA: The mucous reaction now makes sense: at about 10mo. he was dx'd with a mild IgA deficiency (an immune deficiency) that affects all the linings of the body--many of which are covered with mucous and produce mucous to protect his body. So I don't know if he had it before or if the vaxes shot him down, but clearly his body was trying to fight off something it couldn't fight off. Mucous is often an indication of allergic reaction when found in the diaper; but not sure if it's the same when you're throwing it up.

He spent most of July zoned out. And I mean completely zoned. Like vegetative about 30-50% of the time.

I took him to the emergency care clinic 2 weeks after the shots at which point they said he appeared to be recovering from pneumonia and should've been there 2 weeks ago. The ped returned our 2 calls and never thought she needed to see him. She blew it off to first-mother-panic/paranoia.

At the time, we truly believed he was reacting to the PCV7/Prevnar. Ped wouldn't say anything about agreeing, but I noticed that she changed the PCV7 shot in his 6-month shots (he got half of them and I finally grew a set of balls... and changed peds).

DD stopped eating and speaking. After losing 10 % of her body weight, she was hospitalized and given an NG tube for a few months. She underwent speech therapy for a year.

bump for some moms to find. :wink

My ds had a reaction to the DTap at his 4 mo checkup. He had a temp of 104.4 and he moaned himself to sleep for a day or so. He also had knots on his legs (from the shots) for many months.

Of course, according to the pedi, it was all "normal". :dizzy::irked:

This was my DD's first shot, DTP (before the a), we had three hours of inconsolable crying and fever. I think she got the OPV as well, but my memory has faded.

I posted but somehow it ended in the 6-18 month. DD had one DTaP at 4 months. No reaction other than coincidentally or not, she got a cough that night at around 1 am and has had a cough/cold since. Daycare 2 days a week started 4 days later so it's hard to tell what is making it be persistent. We also have pets.

Otherwise, no reaction. Undecided whether to continue next week at 6 months 2 weeks.

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bumpity, bump.

ds rec'd his "4 month" vaxes in april of 2000 and was hospitalized for several days. his symptoms were vomiting, lethargy, fussiness/crying, fever, and unusual coloration on his limbs. he had spinal taps, and multiple blood draws for testing, as well as stool sample analysis to test for rotavirus. when results were inconclusive here, we were transported up to the medical university for further testing and evaluation. they did many more labs, as well as an ekg etc to check for kawasaki disease... we were discharged a few days afterwards, and supposedly it was just a random virus.


dd never received 4 month vaxes, because she had a reaction at her 2 month visit.

Yep, I'm here, though I could post on every single thread you've started Tracy (up until 6 months when we stopped vaxing.)

I could also post if there were a thread about reactions in utero to a flu shot I was given when 3 months pregnant.

Looking back, I'm certain dds problems began w/the flu shot. Of course, there is no way of proving that and then things really got bad with all the vaccines at birth.

My baby was born with clear skin and bright eyes. A few hours later she was taken for all the routine "stuff" and her eyes were somehow different - darker, hard to explain. Her skin was red and ruddy. She did not sleep and had trouble latching. Her GERD began almost immediately.

The major trouble was that she didn't sleep. I mean, she didn't even sleep in the hospital after birth like almost all babies do.

She didn't sleep more than 90 minutes at a stretch (and those times were few and far between) until she was almost 18 months old.

Okay, well, she did sleep 3 hours at a stretch a few times when she was *almost* 18 months old.

You can read our story in my siggy.

Great thread Tracy! Thanks for starting it. It's important.

ds rec'd his "4 month" vaxes in april of 2000 and was hospitalized for several days. his symptoms were vomiting, lethargy, fussiness/crying, fever, and unusual coloration on his limbs. he had spinal taps, and multiple blood draws for testing, as well as stool sample analysis to test for rotavirus. when results were inconclusive here, we were transported up to the medical university for further testing and evaluation. they did many more labs, as well as an ekg etc to check for kawasaki disease... we were discharged a few days afterwards, and supposedly it was just a random virus.


dd never received 4 month vaxes, because she had a reaction at her 2 month visit.


Did DS have a reaction at his 2 month like dd? just curious.

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ds rec'd his "4 month" vaxes in april of 2000 and was hospitalized for several days. his symptoms were vomiting, lethargy, fussiness/crying, fever, and unusual coloration on his limbs. he had spinal taps, and multiple blood draws for testing, as well as stool sample analysis to test for rotavirus. when results were inconclusive here, we were transported up to the medical university for further testing and evaluation. they did many more labs, as well as an ekg etc to check for kawasaki disease... we were discharged a few days afterwards, and supposedly it was just a random virus.


dd never received 4 month vaxes, because she had a reaction at her 2 month visit.

Hi I'm really freaking here the discoloration of limbs was a reaction here as well I thought it was poor circulation and after being so happy about not having excema poor ds' legs are covered:gloomy: I can't pinpoint it to the shots as he seems to be sensitive to proteins I'm on an ed but it is so strange that there is virtually no excema anywhere on his body except the legs where he got the injections and the leg that had the knot is worse..odd fwiw he got the 2 mo and that was it he is a lil over 4 mo now...still has excema allthough it is clearing and at some points his little legs still look splotchy..not arms or hands just legs and feet I'm baffled and disgusted!!:( eta sorry this should be in the 2 mo section.. my bad

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by the way there are more threads broken down by WBV. If you want more, wirewindy let me know and I'll bump them up.