MMR vaccines

[Potatooo]

What is your recommendation in prevention of MMR in a child who has a severe allergic reaction to egg products? If child presents with symptoms of Meales, what would you do?

[highlife500]

Admit the child, treat supportively(epinephrine on hand) and administer vaccine after this infection has cleared and follow supportively, again.

[Ojelade]

I will simply paste this excerpt from medscape here -
"Well-designed studies of more than 1200 children with severe allergic reactions to eggs have clearly shown that these children can safely receive MMR vaccine.[1,2] Therefore, vaccine skin testing and desensitization are no longer recommended for children with a history of severe egg allergy, and there is no reason to delay immunization.The 2003 Red Book[3] explains that although the MMR vaccine is produced in chicken embryo cell culture, this material does not contain significant amounts of egg white cross-reacting (ovalbumin) proteins. ":)