Medical and injections

[JaEnglishGirl 34]

I recently went to my GP in London and got the tetanus jab for free. I'm going back in a couple of weeks for the MMR jab (again free of charge), but I'm a little confused about what the OP said about having "two MMR shots". Can anyone shed any light on this? Do I have to go to the GPs twice for two separate MMR jabs? If so then how long apart do these need to be?

Never heard of that....My son has to have another Hep B injection tomorrow, I know sometimes you can end up having 3 for that.....

[Mags 112]

Never heard of that....My son has to have another Hep B injection tomorrow, I know sometimes you can end up having 3 for that.....

HepB is ALWAYS a 3-shot course. If you don't have the 3 shots, it won't work and you won't be properly immunised.

Edited May 16, 2007 by mags

[Dan&Tiffany 0]

I recently went to my GP in London and got the tetanus jab for free. I'm going back in a couple of weeks for the MMR jab (again free of charge), but I'm a little confused about what the OP said about having "two MMR shots". Can anyone shed any light on this? Do I have to go to the GPs twice for two separate MMR jabs? If so then how long apart do these need to be?

I was told by the Nurse that it is an active immunization meaning if you havn't had mumps after a couple of days you will become a little swollen then subsides in a cpl days, measels will be a slight rash but nothing major which will happen in 10-14 days etc. She advised that you do need 2 courses as they are literally injecting you with an active disease rather than the usual inactive one but in very small doses so the second is to build up a better defence.

In an ideal world she said 3 months but can be less time than that.

[Mothy 0]

I recently went to my GP in London and got the tetanus jab for free. I'm going back in a couple of weeks for the MMR jab (again free of charge), but I'm a little confused about what the OP said about having "two MMR shots". Can anyone shed any light on this? Do I have to go to the GPs twice for two separate MMR jabs? If so then how long apart do these need to be?

I was told by the Nurse that it is an active immunization meaning if you havn't had mumps after a couple of days you will become a little swollen then subsides in a cpl days, measels will be a slight rash but nothing major which will happen in 10-14 days etc. She advised that you do need 2 courses as they are literally injecting you with an active disease rather than the usual inactive one but in very small doses so the second is to build up a better defence.

In an ideal world she said 3 months but can be less time than that.

That's great. Thanks for the info.

Tim