Healthcare professional here - but not your HPC and you cannot confirm that I am who I am so double check what I write:
Get your titers checked and get revaccinationes asap. If you are not vaccinated or are a non-responder talk to your healthcare provider. Isolate until then.
Mask up and keep your hands away from mouth, eyes and nose. You will need a properly fitting FFP3/NP95 mask here - measles are far meaner in terms of infectiousness than COVID. Tight fitting means: You have no leaks at the side - if your glasses fog up, if you can feel air going in or out next to your face,etc. it is not working. The usual “duckbill” masks with straps around the ears very very rarely fit properly.
Every vaccination has a (although very slim) chance to cause an adverse reaction.
Around 5% of all people vaccinated have a minor skin reaction (which is physiological and not an anaphylaxis.
1% report joint pain.
But,more severely, 1-4 people out of a million develop a life-threatening anaphylaxis, 3 out 100.000 a serious blood clothing disorder. Very rarely(as in: Less than 1 in 1 Million), but with a slightly higher incidence of you are an adult pancreatitis and deafness is reported.
As medicine is always a game of chances we try not to risk things,even if they are rare.
Healthcare professional here - but not your HPC and you cannot confirm that I am who I am so double check what I write:
Get your titers checked and get revaccinationes asap. If you are not vaccinated or are a non-responder talk to your healthcare provider. Isolate until then.
Mask up and keep your hands away from mouth, eyes and nose. You will need a properly fitting FFP3/NP95 mask here - measles are far meaner in terms of infectiousness than COVID. Tight fitting means: You have no leaks at the side - if your glasses fog up, if you can feel air going in or out next to your face,etc. it is not working. The usual “duckbill” masks with straps around the ears very very rarely fit properly.
Wash your hands and desinfect them properly.
Stay the fuck away from babies. Really. Please.
Any reason to not skip the titer test and just get an MMR booster (especially if you’re born in the 60s)?
Every vaccination has a (although very slim) chance to cause an adverse reaction. Around 5% of all people vaccinated have a minor skin reaction (which is physiological and not an anaphylaxis. 1% report joint pain.
But,more severely, 1-4 people out of a million develop a life-threatening anaphylaxis, 3 out 100.000 a serious blood clothing disorder. Very rarely(as in: Less than 1 in 1 Million), but with a slightly higher incidence of you are an adult pancreatitis and deafness is reported.
As medicine is always a game of chances we try not to risk things,even if they are rare.
One I can think of… I want to my local pharmacy last week to get an MMR shot, and was refused. They pretty much wont do it without a Dr’s order.
Regarding masks: if you have a beard: shave. Unless your beard is n95/ffp2 rated
Mostly yes,but it is possible to have some beardstyles if you know very much what you are doing (and have a large head).
But the actual area of contact and to a certain degrees the areas around it need to be shaved properly,yes.
You can always glob it full of petroleum jelly (I did quantitative fit testing for a time, it really works) but it’s gross.