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Originally Posted by Moose72
I believe in vaccines and encourage my children to get them. However, N2 had a bad reaction to her first set of shots at 2 months old. A few days after her shots, she screamed a high-pitched scream and stared, unseeing, into the void. This was due to seizures. Luckily, this reaction was listed in the handout on the DTaP vaccine. It was due to the "aP" part- acellular Pertussis- of the vaccine. Interestingly,, they developed the aP to deal with bad reactions to the old "P" vaccine. All that to say, N2 will never get a pertussis vaccine again. She never caught the disease even though she was indirectly exposed once. And we are all very much pro-vaccine even so.
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I have an allergy to the Dtap too. I had swelling from it that was so bad that after my 1 year shot I couldn't walk for several days. The last time I got one I was 18 and about to go to college. They did my boosters in half doses given several weeks apart until then but I had so much swelling that time I was told further boosters are dangerous and I should only have them in an ER.
I did catch pertussis when I was working in home health. I had a patient diagnosed with "pneumonia" with the strangest, most awful cough I'd ever heard. I had to keep stopping our appointment to let her catch her breath and get a drink. A few weeks later I had a runny nose I thought was seasonal allergies and then I found myself coughing so hard I threw up and had to leave work. I was really, really sick for a week and recovering for a few months. I still have asthma as a souvenir.
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