Tomorrow we have an appointment at the International Travel Clinic to have the vaccinations that we’ve been putting off. Someone usually jumps down my throat when I mention unease with vaccinations, but I do have some misgivings about getting the Hep B series. None of the other vaccinations are freaking me much, (measles, polio, Hep A) but that one is.
It’s been linked with an increase in MS, made worse if it runs in your family. MS doesn’t run in my family, but it does in James’. Why do something that might increase his risk in developing the disease? So right now I’m information gathering on Hep B, how easy it is to catch (lots of opinions about this) and the risk involved with the Hep B series (lots of opinions about that too, no conclusive evidence).
The reason we’re thinking about getting it is the chance (not a big one, but a chance) that FD could have Hep B and it may have been missed in testing by the SWI or she may have had a false negative result for the disease because of malnutrition. Some say Hep B is hard to catch and to just be careful until she’s been tested here at home. Others say it’s easy to catch and we should definitely have the vaccinations.
So, I’m still info gathering. Got an opinion about vaccinations? I’d love to hear it. This tends to be a touchy subject for reasons I don’t quite understand.
Once we get home we’ll have a titer done on FD and decide our course from there. She will have received some vaccinations in the SWI, but we’ll have to make choices about what else she needs once she gets home and how to handle that. Right now I’m just trying to decide whether J and I should have the Hep B series.
Tomorrow afternoon we’re going to have our wills drawn up, too. Fun day!! Heh.
