4 Month Baby?

Question

My sister's baby has had his injections but not his 4 month injection yet. My nephew has the sniffles/cold, should she keep them apart? Or is that over reacting?

Sensible answers please from parents and people with sound medical knowledge. Thanks.

Answer 1

i am a mother and work in a long term care ward of the hospital

Personally, I find the more sickenss you are exposed to, the stronger your immune systme gets. I work in the hospital and come home in my scrubs and am around my stray cats that rescue and sickenss all day and my kid is exposed to all of this on my clothes, hari etc.

LOL, I am making it sound bad, I do change and shower, but my point is, she has only been sick 2'ce in 6 years...

I stil send her to the sitters, even if the sitter is sick and she has a great immune system

Answer 2

Shots or not, it is sensible to keep ill children away from well ones. The shots are only for very specific diseases which are most likely not the cause of your nephew's sniffles anyway. At 4 months, babies are very susceptible to RSV. RSV is a virus that manifests itself as a cold in people over 2 years old, but in those younger than 2 can cause asthma like symptoms requiring hospitalization. My son had RSV at 2 months old, and it was a real nightmare with multiple trips to the emergency room. Of course, if they live in the same house, it may be hard to keep the children separated, but at the tender age of 4 months, anything your sister can do to reduce the 4 month old's exposure would be appropriate.

Answer 3

you are overreacting ..sorry . If the baby should develope a sniffle etc the doc will reschedule the injection , its not that drastic really and on the other hand should baby catch the cold / sniffles it`ll get his little immune system going .... I think it would be quite hard to keep brothers apart ..

Answer 4

Medical people will undoubtedly say it is fine to get the injections but as I took several kids in for thiers I don't recommend it. The baby already feels miserable and even if there is no reaction to the shot it'll just make her feel even worse.

Have mom wait unitl the baby is well. oh and another trick I used, I gave the kids all infant tylenol before the shot so they didn't run that high fever after.

Answer 5

Sniffles/cold will not harm your sister's child. Typically a cold is a viral thing that no immunization will prevent someone from getting. Think about children that attend day care. Being exposed to colds and other aliments help children build immunities so they are not sick as often. Kind of of "training" of the immune system so to speak.

Answer 6

I was faced with the same situation a few weeks ago. However my baby got a cough & cold.
When i took him the nurse said as long as your baby didn't suffer with a temperature it was ok to proceed.
She said that alot of parents confuse symptoms of colds with side affects of injections, being that of a high temperature.
Anyway my baby is absolutely fine and suffered no ill effects.

Answer 7

Kids need to be around each other so they can build up an immunity to bugs so isolating a child is going to cause problems.You can spend the next two years sterilising everything in sight but they will still go in the garden when they are 3 and eat dirt!!
Try not to worry!

Answer 8

the only way for a baby to build up his/her immune system is by catching colds and sniffles. my little girl always had a cold, particularly when she is teething. i say let them play together unless there is something seriously wrong with your nephew.

Answer 9

if its a bad cold then yea keep them apart but if its just sniffles then they will be fine he needs to get used to it my b/f has always got colds yet my son is fine he has had the odd 1 or 2 but nothing serious we all get colds

Answer 10

Look, I really don't think that keeping them apart is going to do anything at all because the cold viruis is "airborn". So even if you seperate the baby from the older child, there is a chance that he is still going to get it.