My son’s pediatrician asked us a few times if we wanted him to have British sourced vaccine or US sourced vaccine, the British ones were mostly multi-disease and therefore cheaper and one injection rather than say four.
But then one time she casually mentioned how if we are planning to go back to the USA when he enters school we should have gone with the US sourced vaccine as it is FDA approved and the British sourced ones obviously are not(she said the FDA in the US doesn’t like all in one vaccines) and that has been a problem for some of her patients(she serves a lot of US expats) when they try to put their kids in school in the USA.
Is there any truth to this? That a school in the USA would complain a child vaccinated in another country didn’t get an FDA approved vaccine? It sounds fishy to me:dubious:
? There are a couple all in one vaccinations - I got a couple of them back when they were developed and NY mandated that everybody of school age needed to be vaccinated. I can remember the whole school being lined up a couple different times for shots, and once for oral polio on a sugar cube [they used a dropper and dosed a sugar cube with it and gave it to us in a little paper cup. It made the sugar cube pinkish and slightly oily. I don’t remember if there was a particular taste to it or not. I think I was 6?]
I thought it was a huge waste of time, I had already pretty much had everything except mumps by this time, rubella, rubeola, scarlet fever, whooping cough, chicken pox [I got it under my fingernails and between my fingers and toes, and all over. I was not a happy camper :(] I got mumps as an adult though. mrAru says I looked like a chipmonk
I honestly don’t know except she told us we could have the all in one shot, or the seperate ones and we chose the all in one because it was cheaper and our son is terrified of needles
I don’t really remember when I was a kid if I had any combo shots?
I remember being shuffled through a line and getting zapped twice in my left arm, then going past a nurse and getting the polio sugar cube. There were kids screaming and crying … it would have been so much better if the moms had been there, we were all in the 5 and 6 year old range.
