rubella disease, natural immunity, etc

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So, I think my kids may have rubella. I took one of my kids (who has

not gotten the MMR) to the doctor and based on his rash, he said

though it could be Fifth's disease, but it looked more like rubella to

him. My son has been fine. My older son had something similar the

week before, and I'm wondering if thats what it was (btw, he had 1 MMR

at age 5, which I regret doing). The doctor said, well you know, it

usually is very very mild in kids, but its women who are pregnant that

are most at risk of the effects of rubella. He didn't put on any

pressure to vax, but the comment stung regardless. From my

understanding of rubella, isn't the approach for testing girls/young

women at a certain age (who may get pregnant whether they want to or

not) better to determine immunity from rubella? Why are we putting

this burden on children, when the disease is EASY and gives them

lifelong immunity? I just feel shaky knowing they probably have

rubella and our society is now dependent on vaccines; the situation

I'm in means my kids, infectious before I would have known, very well

COULD spread it unknowingly to a pregnant woman who has no immunity,

since natural lifelong immunity isn't common anymore.

I had 3 kids and while pregnant I wasn't ever immunity tested for MM

or R, but I understand a lot of clinics do it. I guess I sort of fret

about the same scenario for the measles, if my kids do get that too.

How do you all handle that pressure, even if it is unjustified (i.e.,

since most of our population has now been raised with vaccines, herd

immunity from natural infection is rare?) My dh and I were talking

about this late in the night last night. Isn't our adult population

an extremely vulnerable one right now to ALL diseases currently

vaccinated against, since most of us never get any boosters? I'm just

frustrated and venting overall at what I think our vaccine nation has

done to our natural immunity.

Sorry for the rant.