My daughter is allergic to eggs - which the measles is based on, according to the allergist.
I told the doctor to skip it - he told me he would but virulent strains of measles are being brought into the U.S. from Southeast Asia.
She ended up having a specially formulated measles vaccination administered over about eight hours.
Measles vaccination is based on....
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I feel her pain. I have developed an egg allergy and it ain’t fun. :(
Oy. I’m sorry they guilted you into it. There are many ways to ensure nutritionally that your daughter would have, if ever exposed, only had a mild form of measles. And there are easy and good treatments too. I’m not afraid of the measles and I understand that there is a reason a tiny fraction of measles patients have severe sequelae. It isn’t chance, not by a long shot.