Reaction to Immunizations - Rustburg,VA

Read more about vaccination and the diseases they "prevent" at www.thedoctorwithin.com or in the vaccine book by dr. Sears. If you choose to continue, please only do one at each visit so you can see clearly if there are any reactions to a certain one. Report all vaccine reactions to the doctor and online at nvic.org!

Eta: we were helping, by letting you know that reactions, while "common" are not "normal". Please even more so now, research the diseases, likelihood, treatment, and the risks from vaccines in relation. If you read enough, let alone the ingredients, you will see that vaccines weaken the immune system rather than strengthen it. I feel like more parents research carseats than they do medical care!

no it's not normal. You should at least call the dr. and let them know what's going on. I have stopped vaccinating my kids because of reactions like this for them. If you don't want to do that, then you should at least not get so many all at once so that when she does have a reaction, it's easier to find out which one is causing it. Her little system is on over load with so many chemicals going into her body all at once. I hope she feels better soon.

My 16 yo step daughter has brain damage from her shot at 16 months. Within the hour they were in the ER with her. She is permanently disabled.

When my daughter was 10, she got a shot (can't remember which one) and that night after going to bed, she got up, came out looking and acting all spacy and weird, my husband walked her back to bed and she did that every single night for MONTHS. I did not get a shot for either of my kids after that. It freaked me out.

Good luck.

If I had it to do over again I would never do multiple vaccines at once. In fact I would give just about anything to go back 18 years and know what I know now, and do things differently for my kids.

You might want to read about Hannah Poling . . .

Wow...I hope she's feeling better soon. My caught had her 6 month immunizations and wasn't herself for 3 weeks. Really high fevers on and off, would eat food, Barely nursed,really played....just slept and "chilled". She had a weird cough, cold and runny nose -it was horrible and scary. The doctor kept saying it want related to the vaccinations and that wasn't the side effects....but I wasn't convinced. I've gone to a selective schedule where we well break them apart....I think the combo was too much for her. She tolerated the first ones fine and neither of her sisters had a problem....finding a doctor to support this had been difficult. Good luck and I hope she's feeling better soon.

None of my kids had a reaction like that to any of their immunizations. I would take her to Urgent Care or something and have her checked out. What's the worse that can happen? They tell you it's normal, tell you to give her some Tylenol and send you on your way.

My children never got any kind of rash from vaccines. Tenderness from the needle site, yes, but nothing else. You can't use another childs trip to the ER as a basis for what to do with your child. I'd go to the ER. She could be having an alergic reaction and who knows how it is impacting her other than the thigh.

You should have called the day after her immunization with a reaction like this.

My DD had a bad reaction to her DtaP with Polio - she was extremely lethargic and spiked a fever. I took her in to be evaluated in person after talking to the advice nurse. I would have your DD seen, just to be sure it's minor and not something to be more concerned about. I expected some fever, but the lethargy really concerned us.

My cousins, sister and I were talking about it and realized that our kids had been having more reactions (and more severe ones) lately. Sis said that while she usually spaces her son's vaccines more, she didn't last time and he had the same issue my DD did - and this time I did the combo of the DtaP and Polio, where usually DD gets them separately. I will not be doing that gain, even if she had no reaction to the vax before. Something about the combo was too much for her system. (We had already planned to space her chicken pox and next MMR - because our school district is stupid and won't count her first one) til later in the year before K.

Mine never had a rash, some tenderness for a day or two but that was it. I'd call the pediatricians office and ask them... You should have called yesterday.
I would imagine it's normal in some kids. I mean seriously, if you read about the side effects, I bet that's in there. It happens to some but doesnt happen to all. I'd cold compress it for bit.

my son reacted to the 2nd mmr chot. but i think it was due to having the shot a month after the 1st one. the rash could just be a slight reaction. if it gets worse take her

Hi, A.:

OMG!
You could have taken her to the Health Department
and received a little at a time.
Why did they push all this on her at one time?
D.

I think it is a good idea to always take your child to the doctor (or call) if there is any sort of reaction. In the future, I would consider spreading out the vaccines (see Dr. Sears book on immunizations). I support immunizations, but I dont think it is necessary to expose any child to so many different vaccines at once...especially in the early years.

My daughter had a significant reaction to one of the shots she got at her 4 yr old check-up. I don't remember which shot it was. However, she cried when it went in and for a long time afterwards about how bad it stung. Then she limped a lot that day. When I took her pants off for swim lessons later that day, there was a bright red area at least the size of my hand all around the injection site, and it was very swollen. I called the pediatrician's after hour line and they had me draw a circle around the edges to keep an eye on the swelling. They also needed to know about the reaction and which leg, etc so that they could put the info in their records to know which shot gave the reaction. She ran a low grade fever, but he biggest thing was the massive area around the injection site. It did grow a bit more the first day and then it started to subside on the 2nd day. It took about 5 days to completely go away. I gave her children's tylenol or ibuprofen and benadryl..

I would surely talk to the pediatric and use some warm compresses on her leg or maybe switch out heat and ice. That way the swelling will go down and the soreness will feel better.