Like many anxious parents, Beth Spector has spent the past few weeks worried how to protect her infant’s daughter from the first deadly measles to strike the United States during a decade.
Her 9 -month -old age was very small for the first dose of measles, mumps and a grain vaccine, and it is usually given young American children shortly after their first birthday.
But when the WhatsApp collection in New Jersey began to formulate an early MMR fee for children, SpekTor decided to ask the pediatrician about one of them anyway.
The mother said: “I was supposed to say,” It is up to you, “or” it is not a bad idea, “something slightly less determined.”
Instead, the doctor urged her to take an additional blow, a step they recommended to all infant patients after reporting three cases related to their area.
“[The doctor] She said she was hoping for that [U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] “It would change the recommendation schedule for all 6 -month -old children to get a bonus dose,” Spektor said.
This is unlikely, as experts say. Despite the outbreak of the current disease, measles are still rare in the United States, and although the MMR is safe for children who are not exceeding 6 months, it is more effective in young children. Most pediatricians still recommend stopping until the birthday of the first child, with a few narrow exceptions.
Meanwhile, Kennedy spent this week Codolifer oil And stimulants, along with light support for vaccines.
However, even with the delay in standard numbers of parents or their decline, pediatricians and public health experts said they had seen an increase in requests for additional doses after the death of a six -year -old child in West Texas last week.
When reports of an infant in the injured Orange County bearing measles via Los Angeles International Airport in the circular on Friday, this curiosity turns into panic in some families.
“There has been a noticeable increase in parental anxiety about measles, especially among those who plan to travel with young children or who have an daytime care,” said Dr. Berra Sony of the Cedar Sinai Medical Center, an assistant professor of infectious diseases for children. “Some parents ask for an early MMR vaccination, which is a suitable strategy in some highly dangerous situations.”
For a long time, it has been recommended for a long time for “zero” or “supplementary” from MMR for infants who will travel to countries such as Ireland, Sri Lanka or the Philippines before their first birthday.
While most people escape measles infection, the disease kills more than 100,000 Children every year around the world, they leave 60,000 blind children and thousands of thousands with permanent damage to the brain.
The dangerous risks are the reason for giving early shots to children who live near the disease outbreaks. The Ministry of Public Health in Texas currently recommends additional infants in six provinces, including Gaines, where the largest outbreak has appeared.
“It is one of the most infectious diseases that we know,” said Dr. Megan Martin, a physician of emergency medicine at Jones Hopkins, Saint Petersburg, Floreg, who helps explain the infectious disease of her 2.3 million followers of her followers.
Martin got her daughter with a bonus dose before a visit to New York during the outbreak of measles there in 2018. But she said that most parents should abandon her unless their children went to a very dangerous country or live in an outbreak.
Dr. Eric Paul, a pediatrician in Orange County and head of the American Pediatric Academy in California, said he recommended doses of reward for his patients in 2014, during the peak Disneyland’s outbreak. But with no active outbreak in the area, patients are advised to wait.
However, some doctors said they are open to early vaccines even for infants whose colleagues are traveling in daytime care abroad, as well as families in societies where many parents avoid or outperform vaccines.
“I recently conversated with a parent [who said]”We moved to almost one place with a lot of vaccines frequency, so we would like to do MMR early,” said Dr. Nelson Branco, an assistant clinic professor for treating children at UCSF.
Doctors agree that early strikes are not effective such as those late, which is why they are not dependent on a dose chain of a dose that all children need kindergarten.
This did not deter some supporters of Tiktok and Reddit from trading tips on how additional trips to the world of Disney were disrupted, even like anti -strike fathers as toxic and deadly on the same threads.
“Looking through jobs [on Reddit]Angela Owens, my mother for the first time in Maryland, who underwent the stem cell transplant in 2022 and has not yet got a MMR alternative when she became pregnant, “Am I worried enough? Am I worried a lot?”
The doctors said that their experience was the same in the clinic.
“I will be in one room, and I will talk to a 30 -minute patient to persuade him to get one vaccine, and I will go to the adjacent room and I have someone who is eager to give his children an additional additional vaccine,” said Paul, a pediatrician in Orange County.
It gave the distribution of bonus doses some experts.
Dr. Paul Ofit, a pediatrician and director of the Checks Education Center at the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, said he reminded him of the first days of the Kovid vaccine, as part of the country was refusing to vaccinate and part of the country to collect many shots that were “a” Pfizer “card.
He said: “The benefits of waiting for up to 12 months old are largely greater than theoretical risk that you will be subject to measles,” even in a place of daytime care as the child may be exposed to other children traveling internationally.
Children get their first “vaccinations” from their mothers, in the form of blood proteins that pass through the placenta in the third third. These antibodies protect the infant while their immune system ripens. But they can also worsen the effect of the measles vaccine, which neutralizes the weak virus before the child’s body runs in response.
“There is no simple formula,” said Dr. William Moss, Executive Director of the International Vaccine Center in Jones Hopkins. “If you wait for a longer period, a higher percentage of children will develop a preventive response. We are weighing it with the risk of measles.”
In places where measles are common, the World Health Organization recommends the first vaccine in 9 months, when it develops the vast majority of immune children. When it is rare, the recommendation ranges between 12 and 15 months when almost all children rises.
Moss said: “There were some very early studies … which indicate that children who had an early dose of measles vaccine had less than a later dose.” “My opinion on this literature is that it was defective and there were a number of subsequent studies that did not prove it.”
But the latest studies may hold the image in another way.
The current guidelines were developed at a time when many mothers were immune to measles Inflammation. Now, most of them suffer from immunity from the same vaccines. Although children are still inheriting these antibodies to the mother stiffness, they are weaker and faded closer than those in the measles of the wild type.
The World Health Organization has supported the shift earlier in some cases, indicating In 2020 Children in countries like the United States “may become vulnerable to stiffness before the vaccination era, but they may also be more likely to develop preventive immune responses when vaccination.”
Children often get measles School age brothersThe meaning with the spread of the vaccine frequency – including the practice of spacing or delaying vaccines – as well as the danger.
“We see many children in practice that is not vaccinated,” said Martin, Florida’s doctor. Maybe only 85 % of [2-year-olds] I see in practice ground, which is anxiety. ”
She and other experts agreed, the best defense for children is that everyone gets their shots on time.
Moss said: “The final lines message must be vaccinated.” “If enough of the public population is vaccinated, we will protect children from obtaining measles through the herd immunity. This is what has succeeded.”