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goldnugget · Oct 23, 2007, 08:42 AM

My son is 9 weeks old and I have booked him in to have his first lot of childhood vaccinations on Friday. Today I developed mastitis and started taking the antibiotic dicloxacillin. I am already anxious about him receiving his vaccines and wondered if I should delay them until the antibiotics are out of my (and his) system?

Thanks

asking · Oct 23, 2007, 09:12 AM

I don't see how the antibiotics would affect whether the vaccine worked or not. If it were me, it wouldn't affect my decision at all. (I have two sons, both teens now, but they use to be babies.)

Vaccinations serve two purposes. First, they trigger an immune response in your baby and teach his immune system to recognize a germ and to attack it the next time the germ shows up. Most vaccines are very safe. You can read about the exact risks of the specific vaccines he'll be getting, although it may just worry you needlessly...

The second purpose of vaccines is to reduce the number of people who get a disease, which reduces EVERYONE'S risk of catching it. Getting your child vaccinated is like doing your duty to your country by volunteering for military service except that it's a LOT safer. If we all get vaccinated against a disease, there is no place for the disease to exist and it disappears. Nobody can get sick, even unvaccinated people.

Vaccines are very safe, but not 100%. The risk your son runs in being vaccinated is tiny compared to other risks some of us take, like driving a car every day, getting the disease, or volunteering to serve in Iraq. But a vaccine has big benefits both for you son and everyone else.
Asking (with my biologist hat on)

rpg219 · Oct 23, 2007, 09:15 AM

I would call his pediatrician. If you're breast feeding, then your med may react with the vaccs.

bethovin · Jul 28, 2010, 01:04 PM

Go to thinktwice.com and find out that not only are vaccinations not needed especially at your son's age but that by suppressing his body to naturally fight the toxins and bacteria in the vaccines, his risk of being vaccine injured is increased. There are thousands of Doctors, Researchers, and Scientist who advocate against vaccinating young children now. Trust the people who are not prospering by the vaccine industry. Please get informed and do not ask the Fox if he is guarding the henhouse.