Re: Waiver of Booster Shots

[Guest guest]

I hope my ped will cooperate..I think she will....

JoAnne

LMart96834@... wrote:

>

> The school will not accept a letter from you. It must be from your doctor

> saying your child is medically exempt.

>

> If your doctor won't give you this, you can give them a religious exemption

> letter. I had posted this awhile back, but no one acknowledged it. I wonder

> if anyone saw the religious exemption letter that I posted?

>

> Cheryl

>

> In a message dated 9/13/00 10:11:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

> jblag@... writes:

>

> << OK, the moment I feared is here...my son is in a new school and the nurse

> is seeking

> his 5 year old booster shots. We are not doing them. I did have his titers

> taken and

> he's immune. How is everyone doing with this issue? I currently intend to

> write a

> brief letter saying my son doesn't need the vaccinations due to his immunity

> status.

> Has anyone had their pediatrcian write the letter? Any tips here?

> Thanks, JoAnne

>

> >>

>

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[Guest guest]

JoAnne,

I am going through this process w/ Liam at the moment. He has adequate titers to everything except polio. Interestingly, Dr. Hift says she has seen this happen w/ a lot of her patients too. St. 's requires a letter from the MD saying titers are OK and vaccines not needed, but the state may not accept this for DPT since there is no state guideline for acceptable DPT titers, even though there are for MMR. Since our ped is recommending a polio vaccine, we are going the religious exemption route. This link explains it and gives an example of a letter. The advantage of a religious exemption is that once the letter is on your child's school file, you don't have to renew and update it as I believe you do w/ medical exemptions.

Kathy

http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/vaccine/informed.htm