Vaccinations don't hurt!

[druffine]

I've been to the public health authority and got all the vaccinations and immunizations I've missed since 1995. Yeah, that right. 13 years. I'm (nearly) 27 years old btw.

It didn't hurt. They even poked me two times, different arm each, and it's not hurting much now.

I got immunizations against Diphteria, Teatnus, Pertussis. I already had Measles, Parotitis and Rubella done when I was a kid. And they talked me into taking the Vaccination against influenza (FIV), too. (Yes, I'm copying this out of the Internation Certificate of Vaccinations, they gave me. It was all free and I was wondering if you whatever country you are in get that, too. Or if you get even more or maybe less or if you have to pay for it.

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[ccke.livejournal.com]

I really wouldn't not to be honest. I think we have to pay for it, but then the insurance pays us back. I'm not rightly sure since my parents still pay for that (since I don't have a job yet), so I don't really worry about it...
Good thing though that your up to date again with your vaccinations! :)

[druffine.livejournal.com]

I don't plan to have a baby right now but I saw this documentation on tv where they said that the baby takes all the immunization from the mom during pregnancy and while it's breast fed. Measels are deathly for an unborn child. I don't want to endanger any baby or other people by carrying around something I could have easily avoided by getting the free vaccinations.

[taruma16.livejournal.com]

*hangs head in shame*
Ich hab mit Entsetzen festgestellt, dass meine letzte Tetanusimpfung 23 Jahre her ist. Ich denke, Röteln muß auch noch gemacht werden.

[druffine.livejournal.com]

*winkewinke*
Tetanus ist nicht so schlimm - die kriegst du solltest du irgendwie verletzt sein und ärztlicher Versorgung nötig werden. Das ist ja gegen Wundbrand. Ist halt nur doof, wenn du mit dem Flugzeug abstürzt und auf ein einsame Insel angeschwemmt wirst, wo dich eine harmlose Schlange beißt, dein Mitüberlebender dir aber die Hand abschlägt, weil er dich vor Vergiftung retten will, dann entzündet sich die Wunde und du gehst daran langsam und schmerzhaft drauf. (Ich hab mal son Film gesehen - mal echt.) *grins*

Der Rest ist einfach nur wichtig, damit man, auch wenn man es selbst nicht aktiv bekommt (weil man es schon hatte), nicht an andere weitergibt, insbesondere (ungeborene) Babies können so in Gefahr kommen.

Jedenfalls hab ich das so verstanden.

[tabaqui]

Huh. I finished getting vaccines in grade school - think i got my last one in like...fifth grade? When i was ten or something?

And then i got pushed into a measles one when i was like, 22, the clinic people were all 'omg, but, if you get it and are around some pregnant woman, wha wha!!' But nothing since then...

I don't think Monstrous is due for any any time. They want kids to get the Hepetitus B vaccine now, but i said she could wait and get it when she was older, as it was just too heavy-duty a thing for a baby, in my opinion.

[druffine.livejournal.com]

Funny - or not - that was actually the reason I went and got the vaccines. I saw this documentation on tv where they said that the baby takes all the immunization from the mom during pregnancy and while it's breast fed.

Measles are deathly for an unborn child. I don't want to endanger any baby or other people by carrying around something I could have easily avoided by getting the free vaccinations. And I want to have my own baby sometime in the future.

They didn't say anything about Hepatitis B - I guess it's not acute in Europe or something.

[tabaqui]

Hep B is a blood-borne thing, something you only get from sharing needles or body fluids, so it's a matter of choice for an adult, really. They're starting to make it a requirement in schools, which i think is stupid. My eight year old should not be having sex or sharing needles! In school! So - sort of useless. A vaccine for Hep A, though, would be fine, because that you can get from, say, the lunch lady, and lots of people get Hep A from restaurants and stuff.

Fun times, fun times.
:)

[tabaqui]

Oh, and, to actually answer your question - i could get them free or nearly free at the Health Department, and probably they wouldn't cost much at the doctors at all. We *do* have insurance that would cover them, but they try and make something like that as cheap as possible since it's so necessary.

[druffine.livejournal.com]

Hm, I didn't meant to step on toes about the insurance.

In Germany we have obligatory health insurance. If you have an income you pay for it yourself, if you don't the state pays it for you and gives you all kinds of social benefits to have somewhere to live and groceries.

Of course the common vaccines are free for everybody, they're covered by the state independent of insurance.

[tabaqui]

Oh, no toe-stepping. Heh. Insurance over here is gods-awful expensive and way too many people don't have it. I'm pretty sure most of the vaccines *for kids* are free, but if you didn't get them and need them as an adult you might have to pay some small sum of money. I really am not sure.