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BCG Vaccination
Camino
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I didnt realise that not everyone is offered this injection in secondary school now, my son brought home a letter from school today asking me questions about whether he had been out of the country for 1 month or more and where i was born and my parents were born and a whole list of countries on the back of high TB incidence countries. Just find it interesting that its no longer a routine vaccination.
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How come it's not offered to everyone any more?
I never got a scar with my BCG \o/
I kinda mighta went surfing like 2 days after, bcg plus neoprene plus shitty salt water equals massive healing fail.
Oh well, is probly the last scar anyone would notice upon me
More recently with that new cervical cancer jab they are giving to girls, I was rather alarmed that when my then 12 year old daughter was given it, before administering the jab, the nurse asked if there was any possibility that she could be pregnant!
She just replied "I'M ONLY TWELVE!"
More worringly however, my other daughter (a year older) did not get her one until later as she goes to a special school, and (in Leicester anyway) they were not included in the roll out of that vaccine. She only got hers after we spoke to our GP.
Mine's still there too! How come an injection can give you a scar that big for life?
Think it was stopped as TB was on the decrease so now it's only given to people at higher risk such as immigrant families from countries where it is still common.
i didnt get a scar either, i suppose it is too expensive to vaccinate everyone now.
a few days past, i went back to see the results No i did not need it i was protected, Reason is my grandfather had TB and i was very close to him,so in a way he gave me the protection.
Considering that was 7 years ago, it must have been stopped here much earlier than in most other places.
I'm strong enough to fight TB but not tonsilitus, go figure.
But yeh it's not part of the routine childhood immunisations anymore. Only offered to those considered high at risk, e.g. baby born to immigrant parents from high risk areas such as Africa and South-East Asia.
My seven year old, born in Glasgow, did not have it. My 15 month old, born in East London, did. I never had it in the States but we were often tested for it. I'm not going to bother getting my eldest a jab for it.
It's offered to anyone who may live in a high-immigrant area (or near Heathrow for some reason), not just immigrants.
We're referring to the BCG which you get at age 11-13?