Colour Bandit
Senior Member
Just gonna post these little things here that I got from a leaflet I read at the doctors today about the effects of mumps, measels and rubella in adults, please feel free to correct me if I get any of these wrong:
-A rubella infection of a pregnant woman within the first 20 weeks of pregnancy can be serious as it can increase the risk of miscarriage or the child being born with congenital rubella syndrome, which entails a range of serious, incurable illnesses. (Such as sensorineural deafness, eye abnormalities, congenital heart diseases, etc.) so the unvaccinated mother is also risking the life of their unborn child/lowering the quality of life of their unborn child, though the chances of the unborn child being born with congenital rubella syndrome varies from 51% (if the mother is infected with rubella in 0-12 weeks after conception) to 23% (13-26 weeks)
-Mumps infections in adult men can cause testicular swelling, which can lead to sterility. The symptoms are also much more severe in adults.
-Measles in pregnant women can increase the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth or premature birth.
Btw, I got this from an NHS leaflet so I'm going to go with this information being trustworthy, but if anyone with actual medical knowledge can correct me if this is wrong that would be good.
I wasn't the only adult going in for the MMR vaccination today (turned out I didn't need it, there was a fault in the surgerys computer system saying I hadn't had the vaccination at all but my paper records showed that I did, computers these days
still got my tetanus booster though) there was a woman planning on having a baby and didn't want to risk the above things and a few people my age who didn't like that their parents chose not to give them the vaccine, plus a fair few school kids and babies.
-A rubella infection of a pregnant woman within the first 20 weeks of pregnancy can be serious as it can increase the risk of miscarriage or the child being born with congenital rubella syndrome, which entails a range of serious, incurable illnesses. (Such as sensorineural deafness, eye abnormalities, congenital heart diseases, etc.) so the unvaccinated mother is also risking the life of their unborn child/lowering the quality of life of their unborn child, though the chances of the unborn child being born with congenital rubella syndrome varies from 51% (if the mother is infected with rubella in 0-12 weeks after conception) to 23% (13-26 weeks)
-Mumps infections in adult men can cause testicular swelling, which can lead to sterility. The symptoms are also much more severe in adults.
-Measles in pregnant women can increase the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth or premature birth.
Btw, I got this from an NHS leaflet so I'm going to go with this information being trustworthy, but if anyone with actual medical knowledge can correct me if this is wrong that would be good.
I wasn't the only adult going in for the MMR vaccination today (turned out I didn't need it, there was a fault in the surgerys computer system saying I hadn't had the vaccination at all but my paper records showed that I did, computers these days
still got my tetanus booster though) there was a woman planning on having a baby and didn't want to risk the above things and a few people my age who didn't like that their parents chose not to give them the vaccine, plus a fair few school kids and babies.
