Lisa_T said:
...I'm just wondering what the chances are of a bad reaction when second shots are combined with new home; and, if the reaction is bad, what to do about it. I'd probably make an vet appointment for that first week anyway... TBH, I think I'm being paranoid.
i think the chances are slim that there would be any but a minor reaction. minor reactions are common. i don't think a new home can cause a worse reaction. vaccinations stress the immune system. major life changes stress the immune system. nothing controversial about that. but the chances are there will be no serious problem and maybe no noticeable problem.
i remember when my daughter was little and got her vaccinations, they said to give her some baby liquid tylenol because she had a normal and predictable reaction of feverishness and injection site pain, and fussiness for a day.
Around the same time, when she was an infant, I got the rubella vaccination, and not right away, but days later, my lymph glands swelled up all over my body, especially in the groin, the size of large walnuts. my joints swelled up, i could not bend my knees, the swelling was visible.
At first i didn't associate it with the vaccine, i had had vaccinnations throughout my life and had never been aware of any reaction (though it's entirely possible that i may have had some transient reaction that i never associated with the vaccination, but nothing serious, at least not that i associated with the vaccination at the time).
The swollen lymph glands and joints didn't occur until quite a while after the shot. So, i became alarmed, thinking i had Hodgkins disease or something like that.
I dont' remember what put me on the trail of the vaccine, but i started reading about it in the PDR and the manufacturer reported that some rather sizable proportion of women have swollen lymph glands and arthritis following the vaccination, these symptoms would occur not immediately after but a week or so later. It was like a range of 15 to 30% of women who would get these symptoms, according to the manufacturer's research reported in the PDR.
I then called my doctor to ask about this. i was bothered that i hadn't been warned since according to the manufacturer, it's so common, but my doctor insisted the symptom could absolutely not be caused by the vaccination. So needless to say, it was not reported by him to the drug company for their records. If the incidence is greater than the drug company thinks, how will they find out? those symptoms lasted quite a while, only gradually going away.
It's a known problem in the veterinary field that vaccine reactions are underreported. It's unfortunate that there is a lack of informed consent about these matters.
If a puppy develops symptomatic colitis two weeks or a month after a vaccination, you can bet the vaccination is not going to be considered a possible contributing factor, and will never be reported as such. Yet such a conclusion is not based on scientific research. It's just a bias, an unfounded assumption that is treated as fact. No one knows whether vaccinations contribute to such things, but there is evidence strongly suggestive that it can be--it needs serious study. You have puppies with diarrhea and people trying one food after another, prescription diets, medications, pumpkin, etc etc, without resolution. But diagnoses are recorded, "food allergy," "stress," "worms," "parasites," without asking why would this puppy have a food allergy in the first place, if that's what it is. Why has the puppy's immune system not held the parasites in check? There's so much guess work, and it can be guided by common biases, not by science.
if in the unlikely event that your puppy has a severe reaction, of course you would take her to the vet or emergency as she would need something like epinephrine injection for breathing, but i'm sure you know that.
for me, it's not just the immediate reactions that are a worry. there is reason to be concerned about long term and chronic effects, and for me, this means being very cautious about not overvaccinating, not treating them casually, as if they are safe, as if there is no reason to be worried about them. they are a lesser of evils, and should not be done more than necessary. and what is necessary is not that clear, there needs to be more objective research into the subject.
anyway, good luck with your new baby and don't be paranoid . :yikes :flwr: