question about mmr jab?

You can get them as an adult. It's fine.

And yeah I honestly would get them. They protect against pretty horrible diseases.

*Shots (any injection with a needle) can potentially cause some pain. But it is over quickly. And afterwards if the arm is sore you can use some ice to help the pain.

The normal schedule in the US is one dose at one year old, and one dose at five years. You do NOT want to get any of these diseases, particularly as an older child or an adult. Most states require two doses to get into schools. If you can not prove that you had two, or can not prove immunity, then you should get it. The second dose is to increase the odds of having immunity to the diseases, so yes, there is a point to having another. In the US, some states provide exemption for people who do not want to receive vaccines for religious reasons, an exemption that has been used and abused by people who feel that vaccines are inherently dangerous. There are now semi-regular outbreaks of several diseases in areas where vaccination rates have declined. In many states there is movement to decrease the ease of getting exemption from vaccination requirements.

It hurts about as much as any shot. It is not an abnormally big needle. You get a poke, it stings a moment, and then it is over. I would definitely get it.

It's not a jab, it's a quick poke. It's just a vaccination. It beats the hell out of dying.

No you don't "have" to have ANY vaccines to go to school in America. Every state except West Virginia and Mississippi have religious or philosophical exemptions. As more people are educating themselves on the ingredients and potential side effects of vaccines, and how mild most of the allegedly "deadly" diseases are, (not to mention that both the recent "outbreaks" of pertussis and measles were in fully vaccinated people) the number of people filing exemptions is going up.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC412861...