Anyone Here Not Vaccinated as a Child?

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Just wondering if anyone else here was not vaccinated as a child? I am very much pro vaccines, but my Dad was very anti all vaccines... As a result, I suffered quite a bit as a child ... measles will forever be etched on my mind(delirium from high temperature etc) Generally, quite poor health ... lots of tonsillitis, ear infections too etc

I got the measles the year they discovered the vaccine (1963).

I was never vaccinated for mumps, even after the mumps vaccine came out in 1968. I had all my other required vaccinations when I was a kid.

I received a mumps shot in 1997.

Interesting kk... so how old would you have been when you had the measles? Did you ever wind up with the German measles, or chicken pox? I wound up with chickenpox as an adult(nearly killed me!).

I was 2 years old when I got the measles.

I'm 99.9 percent positive that I never got chickenpox.

I'm 100% positive that I never got German Measles (rubella).

I was vaccinated.

I know someone who had German Measles during pregnancy in 1963, and their baby was born with Down Syndrome. The doctors used to say it was connected, but I think medical science has since disproved any link.

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The bummer----is that German Measles is really a mild illness---except when it comes to it causing birth defects.

Back when I was a kid in the 1960s, getting the measles, mumps, and chickenpox was not considered a big deal. They were called the "usual childhood diseases."

We used to call getting a disease "catching" a disease.

Yes, “catching” is how we’d refer to it. The German Measles was definitely milder, but the measles were really something else! In Australia, I was unusual to have not been immunised, so I later learned, as pretty much all of my peers at school were. Measles in Australia was seen as deadly. Thanks for sharing.

My youngest brother never had the proper injections. There were meant to be three. The doctor started to put in one and he had such an allergic reaction (Found to be caused by atrapine) that he nearly died. His eyes rolled back in his head. He was in a right state for several days. The doctor ticked the form to say he had the proper full dose as he was not allowed to say he hadn't had them.

There's an episode of the "Brady Bunch" where all the kids got the measles.

They didn't make a big deal out of it. The kids actually had fun because their parents were at their beck and call LOL

I actually don't believe the writers on that show really knew how serious the measles could be.

Wow! Your poor brother ... must have given your parents a shock and a half!

Yes. He was about two years old or younger.

He has travelled many countries in the world and never had any injections. He is fine.

I had all my vaccines that were available at the time as a kid. We didn't have the chicken pox vaccine back then, and I got it when I was 12. But even though it's supposed to be more severe if you get it when you're older, I wasn't really that sick from it. I guess it ranges in severity like anything else.

It's embarrassing when I remember how terrified I was of needles back then.

When I get a cold, I like to say it feels more like it caught me.

No matter what, we still need vaccines; otherwise, disease which are very rare now, like diphtheria and polio, will make a comeback.

Glad to hear you were protected. I’m not as clued up on Down Syndrome, as I am on the autism/vaccine link(unequivocally disproven), but if you can find a link to debunk the Down syndrome and rubella connection, please share. I do know that rubella in a pregnant woman can cause congenital rubella syndrome, with potentially devastating consequences for the developing fetus. Children who are infected with rubella before birth are at risk for growth problems; intellectual disability; defects of the heart and eyes; deafness; and liver, spleen, and bone marrow problems. Pregnant women should be vaccinated for it after delivery, so they will be immune during further pregnancies. Thanks for sharing.