Why do some people have scars from vaccinations?

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The BCG vaccine leaves a small scar on the tricep because of the way the vaccine is injected into the skin. It's normal for there to be a red welt over the site for a week or so after the injection. The scar serves as a marker - anyone with the scar is vaccinated.

(And why is this anon? :confused:

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bubu

I have one from TB but thats only one out of loads

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her0n

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I actually have no visible BCG scar :O

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You normally get a big scar when some tosser decides to give you a dead arm on the BCG site, it then tends to turn black, oozes and leave you with a noticable scar. :smile:

Reply 5

G4ry

her0n

I actually have no visible BCG scar :O

Me neither, yet i see people with craters on their arms that look like extra-terrestrial experiments.

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Oooh, lets compare scars... Apart from the BCG i have about 150-200 other scars, so i may win by a little bit. :smile:

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xChellex

Nothing went wrong with my BCG, but I do have a little scar from it, along with another scar from some other vaccination that I don't even remember.
Then again, school nurses are not usually the gentlest of people..

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G4ry

3232

Oooh, lets compare scars... Apart from the BCG i have about 150-200 other scars, so i may win by a little bit. :smile:

wow...you must be so cool.

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high priestess fnord

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i did have one but now its so small you can barely see it

Reply 10

LadyEnglish

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Sodding BCG scar :mad:

I still see old ladies with them! :frown:

My nurse is evil. And mine's bigger because I picked it :redface:

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3232

Oooh, lets compare scars... Apart from the BCG i have about 150-200 other scars, so i may win by a little bit. :smile:

I have about 2.5' of scars. Do I come close?

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CheesyBeans

What's BCG? Is it just another name for the TB jab or something completly different.

Reply 13

beach surf babe

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Its the same thing. I've got a teeny little scar from mine. It used to be pinkish in colour but its faded now.

Reply 14

CheesyBeans

What's BCG? Is it just another name for the TB jab or something completly different.

It's the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine that immunises against TB. It used to be given to everyone in secondary school, now (with TB on the rise), it's only given to babies in 'at risk' populations, i.e. immigrants.

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JayEm

14

As you're given the injection as a baby, I think the scar stretches as you grow. So initially, it was probably really small, if you have big chicken wings, you'll probably have a big scar by now.

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CheesyBeans

Renal

It's the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine that immunises against TB. It used to be given to everyone in secondary school, now (with TB on the rise), it's only given to babies in 'at risk' populations, i.e. immigrants.

Cheers. In my school we just called it "having the TB injection" so I got confused whe people on here and at uni called it BCG.

My scar was more noticeable a few years back but now I'm really pale so its harder to spot. For some reason mine is lower than most peoples. One of my friends arm blew up when she had the tester so she didnt have to have the injection. She felt left out though when everyone else was talking about how the liquid swishing into our arms felt like.

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Renal

I have about 2.5' of scars. Do I come close?

Close but no cigar, i'm afraid. I have about 4.5-5' of scars, its about 30cm on my stomach/chest, 30cm on my spine, about 30-40cm on my leg, another 30cm on my arm and about another 6"-12" made up from various other 1-2" scars. I look like someone has half finshed a connect-the-dots. :smile:

Edit: Forgot the arm.

Reply 18

Sephrenia

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I have a BCG scar..it got infected 10 weeks after I had it....then burst..and scarred over..

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