On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:54:45 +0000, Sacha wrote:

Tetanus is one of the normal (UK) childhood immunisations, comes with
the one against diptheria and something else.

Dip. tet and polio.

Polio is one on it's own, used to be oral on a sugar lump. Wanders off
and finds the third was Whooping Cough.

He'd had tet injections in the past but had simply forgotten to renew
- not surprising as nowadays it covers you for something like ten
years, I think.

I get the feeling that ten years is the figure they pin on, just to be
safe, when they don't really know how long the protection lasts. It's
reasonably accepted these days that if you've had three boosters there is
no need to bother anymore.

Not sure when it was introduced as a routine childhood immunisations in
the UK but I'm pretty sure I got it as a child which would have been
early 60's...

Also, he's not the type that's inclined to fuss over health issues.

Neither am I but you can get caught...

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In article om,
"Dave Liquorice" writes:
| On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:54:45 +0000, Sacha wrote:
|
| Tetanus is one of the normal (UK) childhood immunisations, comes with
| the one against diptheria and something else.
|
| Dip. tet and polio.
|
| Polio is one on it's own, used to be oral on a sugar lump. Wanders off
| and finds the third was Whooping Cough.

Polio was by injection, when I were a lad.

| He'd had tet injections in the past but had simply forgotten to renew
| - not surprising as nowadays it covers you for something like ten
| years, I think.
|
| I get the feeling that ten years is the figure they pin on, just to be
| safe, when they don't really know how long the protection lasts. It's
| reasonably accepted these days that if you've had three boosters there is
| no need to bother anymore.

It was 3 years when I started with it.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 7/2/07 16:31, in article
, "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:54:45 +0000, Sacha wrote:

Tetanus is one of the normal (UK) childhood immunisations, comes with
the one against diptheria and something else.

Dip. tet and polio.

Polio is one on it's own, used to be oral on a sugar lump. Wanders off
and finds the third was Whooping Cough.

I'm as sure as I can be that the nurse at the Ashburton Hospital told him
dip, tet and polio and I remember my children having that combined jab.
Polio top ups were the sugar lump and Pertussis was totally separate "in my
day". I think Polio was in the first jab because tiny children can't chew a
sugar lump. Maybe Ray got that jab because that's what she had available?!

snip


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