School Medicals

[goodbyetomaria]

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I remember the cough and drop exam. It would have been around 1974 when I was fourteen. At a similar time we had the TB test which resulted in the little circle of dots on your upper arm either staying or disappearing. Mine did the opposite to everyone else in my class and I had to have a chest x-ray. Apparently, I had been exposed to TB by an older relative and had built up antibodies so I didn't have to have the dreaded big needle injection!

[catflap]

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At a similar time we had the TB test which resulted in the little circle of dots on your upper arm either staying or disappearing. Mine did the opposite to everyone else in my class and I had to have a chest x-ray. Apparently, I had been exposed to TB by an older relative and had built up antibodies so I didn't have to have the dreaded big needle injection!

My 'six needles' came up as well, so I avoided the jab - and that's without banging my arm against things to make it look red like some of my mates did.

Wonder if any of them are still alive....

[darren]

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my worst memory was getting a booster i remember one girl was shaking like a leaf.

i still have the scar to prove it.

[havasack]

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RE the circle of dots test, wasn't it the flower prick for the BCG ? I still have the holes in my arm off mine and I'm now 46.

As for medicals we had a rumour going round our school that at the cough and drop test, if you got an erection the nurse would whack it with a metal spoon.

[screamqueen]

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I was still in school in 1994 when there was a mass vaccination campaign because of a predicted measles epidemic. That was before the Wakefield business but my family had always been "anti-vac" because we knew someone who blamed vaccination for their daughter's autism. I don't know the truth of it but either way I wasn't allowed to have the shot, I do remember that everyone who got it received a sticker saying "A measly little jab didn't bother me." We did have medicals in primary school but I can't really remember any of them, just the usual weighing/measuring stuff.

My high school was very big on "plastic skin" which they'd spray on everyone's cuts and grazes but my family requested that I not be given that either because they didn't trust what might be in it.

[Jacqueline]

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I remember the "nit nurse" visiting at primary school, also the dental checks but apart from the usual teen injections as discussed on here I don't recall any weight/height checks.

If you went to the sick room with ANY complaint at my school the nurse would give you Bisodol.

[havasack]

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Your Bisodol was milk of magnesia at our school.........headache-milk of magnesia, broken ankle-milk of magnesi.

[ianp]

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I remember my school medical sitting outside the nurses room boys joking about walking in and showing you a porn mag so you'd get aroused in front of the nurse. Nurse called me in andsaid to stand in front of her and drop my trousers and pants I dropped my trousers and she and my pants which I did and the next thing I know she squeezed both my testicles I could feel the insides being squeezed. As she walked away she looked over her shoulder and dress yourself which I did and said you can leave now. I stopped outside her door to fix my trousers and went back to class with my heartbeat still racing over what had just happened. I have thoughts of recreating it for some strange reason.

[Arran]

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When my parents attended primary school the kids would be weighed every term to determine whether they were underweight. When I attended primary school the kids would be weighed every term to determine whether they were overweight. The scales measured in kg.

My mother would never allow a dentist to install the silver amalgam fillings into my mouth because they leach out mercury as well as looking very ugly. There was some controversy during my time at primary school over white fillings vs amalgam fillings amongst parents.

[marc]

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I remember a school medical in the infants. I think I was four or five year old. I can't remember much about it, except being weighed and my height being measured. I also remember my eyes being tested with a colour blindness test afterwards. Possibly having some medicinal liquid at the same time. The "Nit Nurse" also "inspecting" us. In the primary school, I only remember the "Nit Nurse" once. This would have been around 1974/5. Never had any medical afterwards in school.

On a footnote, looking at the size of some children these days, walking barrels come to mind. Perhaps the reintroduction of a school medical may do wonders. It may help to stop the early development of high blood pressure and the onset of diabetes.

[staffslad]

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I remember at infant and junior school we had fairly regular visits from the dentist and nit nurse. Also, I think there were occasional sight and hearing tests. At secondary school, at the beginning of year 2--would that be year 7 today?--we were given a resistance test for TB and most of us--including yours truly--were innoculated against it a couple of weeks later. In our final year we were all given a medical examination. One by one we were called into one of the offices and told to strip down to underwear by a female doctor plus nurse. To be honest I can't really remember what the doctor did. This would have been 1978.

[teepee]

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I remember the intimate examination - including having to bend over. I think I was about 13. It was mortifying.

[darren]

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do they not do school medicals now which they probably dont.
Probably costs too much to do but school medicals should be a priority.

i can remember getting them in the early to mid eighties in my secondary school 85 to 88 think those are the yrs i was in secondary school.

cant remember getting them in primary school.

I can remember getting injections i remember getting a booster still have the scar on the top of my arm.

i remember a school medical in the infants. I think i was four or five year old. I can't remember much about it, except being weighed and my height being measured. I also remember my eyes being tested with a colour blindness test afterwards. Possibly having some medicinal liquid at the same time. The "nit nurse" also "inspecting" us. In the primary school, i only remember the "nit nurse" once. This would have been around 1974/5. Never had any medical afterwards in school.

On a footnote, looking at the size of some children these days, walking barrels come to mind. Perhaps the reintroduction of a school medical may do wonders. It may help to stop the early development of high blood pressure and the onset of diabetes.

[Richard1978]

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I can only remember medicals at primary school, & only my BCG injection at secondary school.

[zabadak]

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Nit nurse and BCG injections, here!