Have you had the adult recommended Tdap shot?

[mzmolly]

November 9, 2005

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice Recommends Adult Vaccination with New Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis Vaccine (Tdap)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at its recent meeting (October 26 and 27) in Atlanta, voted to recommend that adults from 19 to 64 years of age be vaccinated with a newly licensed adult booster tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine (Tdap).

Under the ACIP recommendation, the Tdap vaccine would replace the currently recommended tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that is used as the adult booster vaccine. The new vaccine helps protect adults from pertussis, an illness with severe and prolonged cough. It also reduces the risk of transmitting pertussis to infants.

The ACIP recommended that adults receive a booster dose of Tdap vaccine against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis if they have not received a tetanus and diphtheria (Td) booster dose in ten or more years. Adults should receive a single dose of Tdap to replace a single dose of Td. Pertussis affects an estimated *600,000 adults every year, aged 20 to 64 years, and can result in weeks of coughing, cracked ribs from severe coughing spells, pneumonia, and other complications.

http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r051109.htm

I believe that the 600,000 adults must be an international figure as CDC records for the US do not correlate.
I imagine health care workers have had theirs? I have not had mine, but if I had an infant I might consider it.

Edited to add date.

[Atman]

1. Don't forget his dip tet, got to have his dip tet...and mind his little fontanel!

:hi:

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[mzmolly]

4. He he.

My favorite scene: "Buford's the sly one, he already knows his ABCs. Hit the deck, boy!"

Edited to add :hi:

[Atman]

21. Didn't take long for an alert DUer to pick up on that one!

I think Raising Arizona was my initiation into Cohen Brothers films. I love it...it's one of those movies I can watch over and over and over and still laugh out loud.

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[MuseRider]

22. Me too.

I love it every time I see it. So much so that when it is on I giggle in anticipation of the scenes I find amusing. There are very few movies that do that to me. There is just something precious and charming and very funny about this movie.

[mzmolly]

32. Love the Cohen Brothers.

Loved Raising Arizona and I too still laugh out loud when I catch that movie. My all time favorite movie would have to be Fargo. As a Minnesotan, that one has a special place in my heart.

:hi:

[Warren DeMontague]

44. These blow up into any funny shapes?

"Not unless round is funny"

[mzmolly]

45. ...you're young and you got your health, what you want with a job?

:rofl: And in this case, round IS funny.

[JackintheGreen]

2. Head check: Not me

But I am immunized against smallpox. How many 32 y.o. can say that?

Seriously, though, thanks for the word. I travel a great deal in the third world and tetanus is a *bit* of an issue.

[mzmolly]

6. Interesting.

Not many 32 year olds can say that. :hi:

[hobbit709]

7. They never could smallpox to take on me

Every time they gave me the vaccination-nothing. In the Air Force they gave it to me 5 times before deciding I had a natural immunity-good genes I guess. The only shot I ever reacted to was the plague-my immune system said I recognize this bug and I don't want any part of it. Never had the mumps even though both my brothers and sister had it. My mother never had it either even though out of 400 kids in her school 390 had the mumps during an outbreak.

[mzmolly]

8. Wow, what are you guys eating?

That's fascinating.

[hobbit709]

9. I won't eat anything still moving

beyond that I've at least tried a lot of things.

[mzmolly]

13. Sheesh! That's some pretty broad food critera.

;)

[TZ]

19. I have had it twice too with no reaction

My last time was 6 years ago for my job (31 at the time). At least my doc felt my lymph nodes and decided I was reacting to the vaccine but had a natural immunity. Accelerated immunity I think he called it. Sorry they made you go through it so much. Thats not a fun vaccine.:( My dad told me he was the same way- no scar.

[hobbit709]

3. Not me

I even won't get a flu shot-I've had three and each time I got sicker than the flu ever made me. I may have other medical problems but I don't get sick.

[mzmolly]

5. My husband says the same thing.

And the vaccine side effects are strikingly similar to actual flu symptoms LOL. Things that make you go hmmmm .... :freak:

[leftyclimber]

11. Flu shots are preserved with thimerosal

If you're allergic to it, you'll be sick as hell. Back in the stone age, when I got my first and only flu shot, I was told as long as I wasn't allergic to eggs I could have a flu shot. Got it, was stay-in-bed sick for a week.

Even better, gamma globulin has thimerosal in it, or did last time I checked into getting a shot for travel purposes. So if there's a hepatitis outbreak, I'm SOL.

Edit: if we're within 10 years of our last round of inoculations, do we need another round?

[mzmolly]

20. Here's some info on that.

http://www.cdc.gov/nip/recs/adult-schedule.htm

[leftyclimber]

30. Thanks! nt

[mcscajun]

10. I had one last year.

I work for my internist, and while using a mechanical pencil, managed to stab myself with it (don't ask how...I still don't know how I did it!). Part of the pencil stayed in my finger. So, as I could not recall when I'd last had a Tetanus vaccination (no doubt it was in my teens, a long, long time ago) my doctor gave me the DTP vaccination.

Our doctors only give the DTP; no Tetanus-only vaccine.

This article helps to explain why we sometime have adults inquiring about the vaccine without having had any injury. :hi:

[mzmolly]

12. It's funny how few people seem aware of this?

Given that most in our generation have had a vaccine vs. the disease, a booster is logical. I expect we'll see more adult booster recs. in the future?

:hi:

[mcscajun]

14. Most of our generation only think of tetanus shots when they

get an injury...the "I stepped on a rusty nail. I need a Tetanus shot." mentality.

:shrug:

I know I'll be treating those calls differently since reading the article. I didn't have any experience working in medical offices before 2005. :hi:

[mzmolly]

15. Glad I could provide some helpful info.

:hi:

[mcscajun]

16. Yes, thank you! DUers are the best

at keeping each other informed. :)

[Katherine Brengle]

17. Yep.

[mzmolly]

18. Love the avatar.

:hi:

[Katherine Brengle]

39. Thankies - made it meself :D.

:D

[mzmolly]

42. Talented! Do share!

:hi: I attempted one myself recently to no avail. :blush:

[mzmolly]

23. Only two DUers have had the Tdap?

Kicking just in case we missed a few.
With the strong feelings many have on vaccine compliance there must be more.

:shrug:

[mzmolly]

24. Pertussis on the rise again:

http://www.nurseweek.com/news/Features/04-11/Clinical_Pertussis.asp

What they don’t know is, despite high vaccination rates, immunity wanes after five to 10 years, leaving adolescents, adults, and unimmunized infants open to contracting the infection.1 When they care for patients with an illness characterized by a prolonged cough, they should explore the possibility of pertussis.

This may deserve it's own thread?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

25. No way in hell.

That vaccine hasn't been tested long enough. It's probably some giant FDA conspiracy to brainwash us.

Plus, I wouldn't want adults to get the idea that they can just go around stepping on rusty nails.

[mzmolly]

26. My guess is you actually haven't.

Have you?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

27. Of course not.

I'm not some sort of rusty nail slut.

[mzmolly]

28. Or a disease vector who is risking the lives of vulnerable infants?

Seems we have to choose our labels.

Also the rusty nail thing is a bit of a myth, but that's another topic.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

29. yeah, yeah, yeah.

And HPV isn't infectious.

:crazy:

[mzmolly]

31. Didn't realize we were discussing HPV. However, HPV

is a sexually transmitted disease. Pertussis is another matter. And, if you promote vaccines for children it seems to me you should practice what you preach? Of course if you were not aware, that's understandable. But, now you are. ;)

I'll check back later. :hi:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

33. Actually, Molly...

like I said in that thread last night, if you remember, I recently went in for my tetanus booster, and I assume it was this one. You'll have to ask my doctor if you want to confirm that.

As for HPV, it's a lot easier to catch than either tetanus or pertussis. So if one's going to preach vaccines for the latter they should be preaching vaccines for the former. And I don't see why one would harp on HPV being an STD, other than them having some sort of hang up over sexuality.

[mzmolly]

35. Pertussis is transmitted via coughing, HPV via sex I'd say your facts are a bit

off? http://www.pertussis.com/parents.html

But, this thread was not intended to be about the HPV vaccine. We've had numerous threads on that subject.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

36. My facts?

Molly, how many people have pertussis, compared to how many people have HPV?

[mzmolly]

37. HPV has many strains. So, let's look at cervical cancer rates.

Incidence (annual) of Cervical Cancer: 13,000 annual cases in USA > http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/c/cervical_cancer/stats.htm

Pertussis cases were totaled around 25,000 cases in 2005. Granted the pertussis number is likely greatly under reported.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

38. There are over 150 million people with HPV in the United States.

Now divide the number of people with HPV by the number of people with pertussis.

How many people in the country have tetanus, Molly, hmm?

[mzmolly]

40. Many strains of HPV are not harmful.

Which is why I looked to cervical cancer rates. I assume in your zest for improvement you've had the Gardasil shot though?

Again, it was not MY intent to take this thread in the direction of HPV.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

41. And?

"Again, it was not MY intent to take this thread in the direction of HPV."

Yeah, right.

[mzmolly]

43. And, apples and oranges.

You took this thread in the direction of HPV, not me. I've had numerous exchanges with people in this discussion.

Peace and :hi:

[demrabble]

34. This Recommendation Comes From The Same Administration

This recommendation comes to you from the same administration that:

1. Will not allow the morning-after pill to be sold over-the-counter to young women.

2. Somehow forgot to provide decent care to wounded veterans returning from Iraq.

3. Lied in order to send troops to Iraq.

etc.

etc.

[Warren DeMontague]

46. Thank you for this.

Good to know. :hi:

[mzmolly]

47. Yer most welcome.

:)