cheshiregirl
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Cheshire, what are you afraid of, that could be passed by a bite and is also something that there's a vaccine for?
To calm you down, remember...no vaccine is 100%. I have a friend who has been vaccinated for various thing probably 10 times, b/c she's in a liver transplant program, and she is NOT immune to any of it. Her titers are checked routinely. She is not immune, despite being shot up often.
And if YOU believe totally in the vaccines you've given your child, then you shouldn't worry. If you don't believe that they are 100%, then that's a problem with the vaccines, not with the kiddo in that family.
Bites get nasty b/c mouths are nasty. Not because they have things that vaccines might prevent in them. It'll be OK.
I'm so glad DS only ever bit ME. I knew "a biter" and it was so hard to be around him. But some kids do it and others never do...it's a weird thing, the biting. Also glad DS grew out of it (the only times he ever did it when not teething, it turns out, were related to the corn syrup issues we figured out when he was 3...it would put him into an absolute RAGE, and biting was the only way to get the feelings out, poor kid).
I guess I'm worried because our ped was concerned about whether the child had been vaccinated or not. And, it hit me by surprise when I found out that the child that bit him wasn't vaccinated because in my naivete I just assumed that the kids at his school all were vaccinated because it was required. I never even thought about kids getting religious exemptions because that is just not something that I had not personally encountered yet. I have friends who have vaccinated at a slower pace, but except for one friend who is convinced that there is a link between juvenile diabetes (her husband is diabetic) and vaccines, they have all vaccinated.