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[CLKD]

   Scampi.  I had a slight reaction on the under-side of the arm. 

I didn't ask the question then did I  - does anyone else have a very itchy arm where the jab was given B4 a cold starts?

When I left working in the Hospital in the 1980s TB was 'common' due to the number of foreign students, particularly those from Malaysia ………..

[breeze]

I have a scar from a smallpox jab, when I was 7.  We were due to go on a family holiday to France and there was an out break there at the time, hence the whole family had the injection.

I had a very bad reaction and was ill for 2 weeks.  Doc said it meant I would very likely have  succumbed to smallpox, if I had caught it.

We don't realise how lucky we are these days.  All those diseases that used to be common such as TB, smallpox, polio, diphtheria etc.,

[CLKD]

Some countries insist on those being given B4 allowing entry to visitors.

[countrybumpkin]

Ohh memory lane!  I remember the heaf test and not reacting at all and having to have the BCG injection. My arm was an awful mess and I still have a hole in it to this day.  As an adult I reacted very badly to tetanus vaccine so me and vaccines are not a good mix, I am too allergic

My son fainted when he had his

[CLKD]

R U allergic to eggs Countrybumpkin?

[Joyce]

My son fainted after one of his injections at about 14. Can't remember which one. Went back to his class, felt unwell & teacher told him to go & get some air at which point he collapsed hitting his nose off a desk. Blood everywhere. Ended up going to hospital in an ambulance. He wasn't the only one that year, kids were flaking out all over the place.

[Cazikins]

I was given the big one when I was a baby because my Uncle got TB, so Mum asked the doc to do it.

He did it on my thigh as I had a big strawberry birthmark there, he thought it would cover it up a bit............no it didn't, it's still there.

At 13 years of age I had the six round needle tester & hey ho, I was still immune, oh how glad I was about that.

Cazi xx

[CLKD]

Himself remembers the '6 in 1' but didn't need the injection. 

Does anyone's arm itch at the injection site prior to a cold?

[Taz2]

I always thought that it gave you protection for life but it only lasts fifteen years.

Taz x

[CLKD]

Isn't that why inoculations on the whole have to be repeated if a person travels to 'certain' countries where the diseases are rife? 

[Taz2]

Yes I guess so. It's the same as the Polio one I suppose.

Taz x

[CLKD]

Diptheria.  Polio.  Yellow fever.  Thyphoid.  (though I know someone who caught it but had never left England  ).  Different countries require different jabs …….. another reason not to fly