The family pediatrician did indeed encourage exposure under the assumption adult measles carried a greater risk.
Henry - 9 years ago
Yes, I have measles immunization along with all other immunizations. I am also in the process of researching more into getting all immunizations again. Being in my 50s now , i heard or read somewhere that the immunizations you got as a kid back in the 50s - 70s might not stand the test of time to old age.
I am also glad to see many doctors have started to deny seeing the children of the parents whom won't get their children immunized due to autism scare or religion beliefs etc. Which is the Doctors right to do this. Schools should not accept these kids either.
mary - 9 years ago
The measles vaccine was invented in 1963 so those in the fifties had no choice. Physicians didn't advise parents to let kids get the measles. There was no way to prevent them.
Julia - 9 years ago
My immunization was 'au natural'. I was a child in the early 1950s when the current wisdom given to mothers by pediatricians was to allow the child to get measles so they would develop an immunity which prevented more severe side effects if the disease were gotten as an adult. So I was exposed, I got both measles and chicken pox (not at the same time) and I vividly remember lying in the bedroom with fever, the painful sensitivity to light, the itching, the cotton gloves to prevent nail scratching and scars. So I hope I still have immunity...I certainly worked for it.
The family pediatrician did indeed encourage exposure under the assumption adult measles carried a greater risk.
Yes, I have measles immunization along with all other immunizations. I am also in the process of researching more into getting all immunizations again. Being in my 50s now , i heard or read somewhere that the immunizations you got as a kid back in the 50s - 70s might not stand the test of time to old age.
I am also glad to see many doctors have started to deny seeing the children of the parents whom won't get their children immunized due to autism scare or religion beliefs etc. Which is the Doctors right to do this. Schools should not accept these kids either.
The measles vaccine was invented in 1963 so those in the fifties had no choice. Physicians didn't advise parents to let kids get the measles. There was no way to prevent them.
My immunization was 'au natural'. I was a child in the early 1950s when the current wisdom given to mothers by pediatricians was to allow the child to get measles so they would develop an immunity which prevented more severe side effects if the disease were gotten as an adult. So I was exposed, I got both measles and chicken pox (not at the same time) and I vividly remember lying in the bedroom with fever, the painful sensitivity to light, the itching, the cotton gloves to prevent nail scratching and scars. So I hope I still have immunity...I certainly worked for it.