Vaccination and epilepsy

Re: Vaccination and epilepsy

Niall Taylor — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:40:00 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"]I'm showing my age It was contra-indicated in babies who had fits when my friends were having children

Wynne [/quote]

Not at all ! There were still concerns about it when Princess Diana was having her kids vaccinated - and that's hardly any time ago!

Niall

Re: Vaccination and epilepsy

Hannah Wynne Richards — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:48:39 GMT

I'm showing my age It was contra-indicated in babies who had fits when my friends were having children

Wynne

Re: Vaccination and epilepsy

Niall Taylor — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:15:53 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"] The only one where I think there's some clinical justification not vaccinating is kennel cough-because it's a strain of bordetella and bordetella (whooping cough ) vaccination in children is contra-indicated in epileptics[/quote]

The concerns about a link between Bordatella pertussis (Whooping cough) vaccination and epilepsy go back to the 70's, largely as a result of media scares, but have since been shown to be groundless. Siezures are no longer a contra-indication for pertussis vaccination in humans.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/vac-admin/contraindications-misconceptions.htm (Whooping cough is the 'P' component)

http://forms.asm.org/microbe/index.asp?bid=48816 "What was called pertussis-vaccine encephalopathy proved instead to be seizures attributable to infantile epilepsy; importantly, pertussis vaccine does not cause such illnesses."

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/263/12/1679 "'Pertussis Vaccine Encephalopathy': It Is Time to Recognize It as the Myth That It Is"

Cheers,

Niall

Re: Vaccination and epilepsy

Hannah Wynne Richards — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:19:09 GMT

The only one where I think there's some clinical justification not vaccinating is kennel cough-because it's a strain of bordetella and bordetella (whooping cough ) vaccination in children is contra-indicated in epileptics

Wynne

Re: Vaccination and epilepsy

Bob Russell — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:23:32 GMT

There was anecdotal 'evidence' that rabies vaccination may reduce the incidence of fits in human epileptics.

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=141464

Sadly this does not seem to be the case.

There are pages and pages on the internet warning that rabies jabs will make your dog epileptic. As far as I can tell this relates to a few cases of encephalitis in humans following rabies vaccinations.

We vaccinate epileptic dogs with the same protocol as non-epileptics.

Re: Vaccination and epilepsy

Stephen Courtney — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:00:32 GMT

I would recommend vaccination as per protocol supplied by our current vaccine company. i don't appreciate any connection with epilepsy and vaccinations, though I have known some animals that will seizure as a result of the excitement and stress of coming to the surgery.

Re: Vaccination and epilepsy

Niall Taylor — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:21:53 GMT

[quote user="Iain McAllister"]Is it a factor to take into consideration or not...[/quote]

Nope

[quote user="Iain McAllister"] - vaccinate as normal?[/quote]

Yup

[quote user="Iain McAllister"] - lepto only and maybe do titres on DHP ?[/quote]

Niall

Re: Vaccination and epilepsy

james herriot lied — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:32:07 GMT

[quote user="Iain McAllister"]

The dog has been epileptic for a couple of months - improving but not yet decently stable on Pb

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I generally just vaccinate, and can't say I've ever really seen any issues.

On the other hand, it's not that surprising it's not better if you're giving it lead........

(already got my coat and am out the door)