The MMR vaccine is an injection that prevents you from catching the following three diseases. Measles can cause ear infections, pneumonia, fits and inflammation of the brain. Sometimes it may prove fatal to life. Mumps can cause meningitis, which can cause deafness. It may cause inflammation of the pancreas, nausea and vomiting. Rubella, also called German measles, causes heart damage, blindness, deafness and brain damage. It can also lead to miscarriage.

Single vaccines are recommended less often as compared to combined vaccines. There are a number of reasons why the vaccines aren’t given singly. Single vaccines put more lives at risk therefore; they are not licensed in the UK and have not passed the safety test. Single vaccines would prove to be less effective than MMR. Moreover, single vaccines are not verified to be safe and preventive. A single dose MMR vaccination has been found to cause autism and inflammatory bowel disease.

On the other hand, MMR single vaccinations have several other advantages which develop a desire for acceptance somewhat. A large number of people desire to have single dose vaccinations due to the fact that a single dose is easy to acquire as compared to that of combined vaccines. Separate dose vaccines have to be given over a longer time span.

Time is not the only reason; the children go through a painful exercise every time they are vaccinated. Due to long gaps between every dose it might become possible that fewer children acquire the full course. This leads to the fact that they are left unprotected against the diseases. Between wide intervals children may become vulnerable and catch measles, mumps, or rubella. They will transfer the germs to the other children who are still awaiting any vaccination. The most risky age to catch measles is under one year.

Children who are not vaccinated against MMR will be more susceptible to the virus. Some ten years back, almost half of the deaths of kids were caused due to measles, but after the children have started vaccines, the death rate due to measles has almost ended. Some children do get side effects. However, these are very uncommon after the first dose and even less probable after the second. Side-effects of the vaccine are generally mild and, most significantly, they are milder than the potentially grave consequences of having measles, mumps or rubella.

The mother of an unprotected child is also at a high risk of catching the disease. Pregnant women are the most vulnerable due to their unprotected children. If the children get an MMR single vaccination, the risk of catching the disease in the surrounding people will reduce to less than half.

The MMR vaccine may also be available to young people when they leave school or before they enter further education if they haven’t already had both doses. There may be more hindrance before being completely vaccinated, leaving children at risk of infection from the diseases for longer.

If a person has received a single dose of one or more of the monovalent vaccines-that is, the single measles, mumps, or rubella vaccine-and a second dosage of vaccine is needed, they should receive their second dose in the form of an MMR vaccine.

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