Doctors remind parents about the importance of vaccinating children -
Doctors Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati Children want to remind parents of the importance of vaccinating their children when preparing to send children to school.
Robert W. Frenck, Jr., MD, director of clinical medicine and vaccine researcher at Cincinnati Children, said vaccines are essential to ensure the child stays healthy throughout the year school. According to Dr. Frenck, the most important thing a parent can do to protect the health of their children is to ensure that the child is immunized.
Just because many deadly diseases such as polio are no longer common, people should not stop vaccinated, he said. Still protecting children with vaccines is critical because outbreaks of diseases preventable by vaccination were held both in the US and abroad when children are not vaccinated.
"If the child's immunizations are not up to date, it is possible to catch up," he explains. "A parent just needs to talk to their child's pediatrician and ask them how to do this."
Dr. Frenck with the Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics would like to highlight some important vaccination information.
"Cocooning"
The babies in the first 6 months of life, despite being immunized are still at risk of contracting pertussis (whooping cough). The Academy of Pediatrics is a supporter of "cocooning". This means that everyone around the baby - parents, siblings, grandparents, friends and caregivers - is immune. vaccinated children and adults are less likely to spread pertussis to children, especially important in the first months when babies are not yet fully protected.
vaccine against influenza for everyone over 6 months
Not only vaccine against influenza to protect your child, childhood vaccination can significantly reduce flu in adults because children are the ones who bring home. The vaccine is available in nasal spray (well for most healthy children older than 2 years) or by injection.
Children older than 4
For children 4-6 years old, they should get DTaP, MMR and chickenpox shots. In about 11 years, they should receive Tdap, MCV4 (meningococcal) and HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine.
HPV for girls and boys
Girls and boys should receive the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine from 11 years or vaccine against HPV 12. protects against cervical cancer in girls and rectum and penile and other cancers in males. It is part of a "platform teenagers' vaccine that the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend. Other vaccines are in the trio Tdap to protect against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, and MCV4, to guard against a type of bacterial meningitis.
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