MMR vaccine -- Childhood Vaccine Series

MMR vaccine -- Childhood Vaccine Series Video Clips. Duration : 3.87 Mins.

MamaNatural.com The MMR vaccine protects against the diseases of Measles, Mumps and Rubella. It is administered at one year and five years old in the form of a booster shot. See http for a full description of Measles, Mumps and Rubella and this vaccine. MMR Vaccine Is the vaccine controversial? This vaccine is the most controversial vaccine out there and probably the one that's responsible for the growing trend of parents choosing not to vaccinate their children. Interesting to note, this vaccine does not and never had mercury in it. The MMR vaccine is a "live virus' vaccine meaning that it contains the virus in its whole and living form, albeit minuscule dose. The advantage to this is that kids need just one dose, versus 3 doses like many other vaccines, but kids do need a follow up shot at 5 years old since the immunity can wear off for some children by 5 years old. Some parents may chose to get just one shot when they are older, say 4 or 5, but some states won't allow that. Additionally, some parents may only want to give 1 shot at 1 year old and then do a blood test to see if their child still has immunity. This is uncommon since it's expensive, time-consuming and some doctors won't do this at all. Up until the 1990's when the MMR vaccine came to the scene, the vaccines for these diseases were separate shots. Parents can still get these single vaccines, and space out the shots up to a year, if they so chose. Not enough research has been done if this reduces the ...

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