General Chat

BCG. We were talking tonight over tea about injections and the BCG one came up. I had it even though my arm reacted a bit, daughter had it but hubby didn't as he reacted. How many of us had it and how many didn't?

I have ...............

My mum wouldn't let them give it to me so I could die of TB any day now.

I had it way back in 1958 as I was a student nurse - most of us had to have it back then. Stella

Yes,I did!

I didn't because my Dad had TB and I had a positive reaction when I had my test. I was only 9 then and they said something about a patch on the lung. I am OK, no problems and I assume that I am immune....

Pippa same here. My cousin had a bad reaction to hers, you can get the tip of your finger in the dent in her arm, my mum refused to let me have it. Trouble is, she let my sister who is 2 years younger. Never understood that!!!! Margaret

Twice once at school and again when i worked at the hospital

Yes about 8 years ago Suzy :o) x

i did....had a phobia of needles,still do but not as bad,and had to be held down by 2 nurses and my mum....pmsl BB xx

I had - 40 years ago... My aunt died of TB 4 years before I was born

I was one of the few at school who didn't have it (1980's), they always told me my eczema was too bad. Children both had it at birth. I read in a paper several months ago that batches of the vaccine may not have worked and there are possibly a lot of children out there who are not protected even though they had the jab. I have tried to get vaccinated recently, but been told I'm not in a high risk group. Apparently TB is on the increase again, considering how prevalent it was in the past, makes a worrying prospect.

No. I had such a bad reaction to the skin test that I spent two days in hospital with my arm in icepacks. They also did an X ray which showed that I had had TB and recovered all by myself. My mother was absolutely mortified as she remembered me complaining about not feeling well a couple of years previously. BAAAAAAD MOTHER! I got away with murder for a long time after that - my mum only had to raise her voice and I would cough piteously... OC

I had it - memorable for the fact the the phone went as the school nurse was injecting and she answered it, leaving the needle in my arm and came back to it when she'd finished talking!! Mags xx

oh please do not go there i have never had the BCG i have however had countless Heaf tests and had to have chest Xrays cos the were positive!

My mum did something similar,she left me in agony with appendicitis(sp) for a whole weekend with nothing but a hot water bottle and paracetomol.By the time she rang the doctor they said my appendix was dangerously close to bursting! BB xx

Julie - thats interesting that they ran out in 2000. Son had his at birth in 2001. Midwife kept saying that they were in short supply, the fact that she had to throw 2 away when she dropped them on the floor probably didn't help the situation..................................

3 of my children did not need it, bgut the fourth one did. I don't know if I've ever had it, we had so many injections etc. when we were children (travelling with the army) I have to look up to see what I've had. For all you mums who have left your children in pain.... it's in the *Mothers Hand Book of mistakes to make*... We have all done it. I left my poor son over night with a broken arm. He had so many broken arms and I just thought he could not be THAT unlucky! I left my 2.1/2 year old daughter with a broken arm... all week end. She was such a bloomin MOAN that I did not think it was anything other than her usual... moaning. Eventually called the doctor who said 'better safe than sorry! When the ambulance came for her , and the abulance man moved her arm around a bit... she fluttered her eyelashes at him and smiled sweetly! He said no, but we will take her in just to be sure. Greenstick fracture and plaster!! The day my daughter had her appendics out, I said, sore chest? That is a new one... School! They sent her home at about 2.00, and she had had them out... just in time by about 5.30!! I admit it, I'm a bad mother.... just realised it as I typed this! Deanna X :-0(

Deanna So am I! Daughter fooling around on the bed, fell off backwards. I told her off, told her to stop making such a fuss and put her to bed. Next day, cried when I tried to put her vest on. Stop this right now, I am not in the mood for it, I said. She whined and cried all day. By late afternoon, even I had decided it might have gone on a bit too long, took her to A and E - broken collar bone. Disgusted looks from the Doctor, nurses, cleaners etc - didnt you realise she had hurt herself? Baaaad mother... OC

I did. M.