Echo,
u mean can press back into shape??? Oh my god, i actually threw them away! it happened quite sometime back!! :'(
Jess,
actually taking the MMR jab before travelling would be safer. Why dun u ask ur PD see wat PD say? My personal thinking is if going to countries that r more developed mayb not so much problem?
I oso havent bring my ger for the jab cos she was sick recently then aft she get well I v busy. Then my PD clinic on sat is mad house! *opps* my PD seem v concerned and wants me to get her jab asap.
Jappooh,
Mayb it is for peace of mind to take MMR later. But there are many studies that refute MMR to be related to mental disorders (incl autism). In UK, the General Medical council has in 2010 retracted the report (written in 1998) tat said MMR was link with autism in children...
The full story can be found in Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy#cite_note-full-retraction-9) - apparently the author of the report took money from some solicitors who were fighting a court case that claims MMR causes autism...
"In 2001, Berelowitz, one of the co-authors of the paper, said "I am certainly not aware of any convincing evidence for the hypothesis of a link between MMR and autism". The Canadian Paediatric Society,the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences,and the UK National Health Service have all concluded that there is no evidence of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism."