Nursing student and being vaccinated for placements?

[Hannahbanana]

so I had my blood test and am immune to chicken pox, MMR and even though I have had my Hep B shots before they didn't take and I didn't show any immunity to it. The GP said that sometimes it happens. So I had another hep B shot just to see if this one works and I also had meningacocyl (sp?). I have to go back for the tetnus booster one and also polio next month. Gosh the taste in my mouth after I had the shots was just disgusting!!!!!

[feeb]

I have had 2 rounds of Hep B vacc and have barely any immunity but a small amount.
MMR I had a vaccine booster 6 months before I conceived DS1 and had low immunity at my bloods!!

Had first lot of Hep B vacc at uni when doing nursing.

Never had flu vacc

[Traveller]

I have no immunity to hep A, hep B, so I need those vacs. I also still need to get the Men C and Polio, but I am ok for MMR and presumably chickenpox (having had the disease) but I am still waiting on the test results for that last one.

I had my mantoux results read today and they were very positive (measurement 15mm by 16mm) anyone else had a positive result before and if so what happens now?

[Hannahbanana]

I have to go do that test to Traveller. I was thinking about having it as a blood test though instead of the inject under the skin thing only cos my GP doesnt do the actual mantoux test.

[Little Chicken]

Can you get it as a blood test? It's usually specialist testing centers that do the mantoux.

[Hannahbanana]

Yep. It's called the quantiferon gold assay blood test. It is not rebateable though.

[Little Chicken]

That's a good sounding name for a blood test