My Son Got a Shot and Now Won;t Step on His Leg

That isn't uncommon... the shot goes into the thigh muscle, and it is still sore.....

I know when I got the flu shot last year and this year, my arm ached for a couple of days! However, a bit of achiness is much less a problem than getting the flu......

My kids also got all the vacs..... it is much better than having to watch a child suffer from preventable diseases like whooping cough, measles, and such.

Keep up the good work, mama.... I think the "staggered" vacs is a good idea, too... there are just so many they get nowadays!

Have YOU had a tetanus booster lately? Do you know how much your arm hurts for days after that shot? I have to have my booster next month and I am not looking forward to it! I make sure not to have it in my right arm because it hurts so much to use my arm afterwards, and I'm right-handed.

Keep giving him tylenol, and put him in a cool bath and gently massage his little leg. That helped my little guy - he was sticking his leg out straight and screaming the afternoon of the shot, and between the water and the tylenol, he started to feel better. I credit my daycare lady for knowing about the cool water, bless her heart! (I loved my daycare ladies! They knew so much!)

Keep up with your staggered schedule. A sore leg is better than whooping cough or measles, etc. Promise!

Dawn

I am assuming at six months he doesn't walk? Pretty much what you are talking about is holding him up so he can kind of stand but he doesn't want to put weight on it?

If that is the case, he doesn't walk. He doesn't have the ability to work the little muscle out so it is sore. Nothing big, it will heal.

I think it's pretty common, although it's just as common for us mamas to get upset and worried!
His little muscles are probably pretty sore in his leg, that's why he's not putting weight on it. I wouldn't worry much about it unless he keeps acting like that after a few days or if he were to get any other weird reactions.

I just remember when I got the shot in my shoulder in HS (tetanus booster? MMR?) I couldn't play piano for a few days it was so sore! I'd give it a bit of time...baths sometimes help.

I think my kids were like this occasionally. It helps a lot if you put a heating pad on his leg and rub it gently. Something else that might help is baby Motrin. Anything that will help relax the muscle will be good.

It can take a few days for the soreness to go away.
Some warm bathes should help.
He'll be fine.

Some shots cause more discomfort than others and being tensed up makes it worse so with your son acting this way now, it does sound like his leg is sore. Look at the leg and see if you can tell exactly where the shot was given (needle mark, redness, swelling, warm to the touch etc), ice it for about 10 minutes a couple of times a day for a few days and maybe give him a bit of Tylenol.

IF it is swollen, hard, and/or sore to the touch give the doctor a call because your son could need a antibotic. Sometimes they can get an infection at the injection site (has nothing to do w/ the vaccine itself) and if left untreated it could get nasty. Happended once to my daughter (shot in the arm), ironically it was the one and only time we ever had to hold her down and two days later it was red, swollen, hard, sore and sore to the touch. She even ran a low grade fever one day. One round of anitbotics, icing a few times a day, and she is good as new.

I am for vaccines......ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.......but once when giving the vaccination, the nurse hit a nerve which cause our child to stop walking temporarily......she was 18 months......call the doctor and ask/let them know, but that is what happened to us. It did not happen with any of our other children or again with this child.

Some shots are deeper into the muscle tissue. Not just in the skin.
And if the muscle was tense at the time of the shot, then it will hurt more after.
For a baby, any "pain" can be really uncomfortable and they of course, do not have the communication ability to tell you what is sore.
Ask the Doc's office, which leg the vaccination it was given in.
But you said, it was the left leg but you are not sure.

At the time of any shot, Pediatrician's office, usually gives the parent a Fact Sheet of info about the shot being given. On it will be lots of info about after effects of a shot.

Call the Pediatrician's office, and see if you can give him infant Tylenol.