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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[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.
:)