How It Works
Protecting your child from harmful bugs does not only come from vaccinations. What type of feeding provides infants with additional protection?
Breast feeding
If a child is less than 12 months old, in what position should the child be when the vaccine is given
Held by the caregiver. This gives the child comfort and ensures they do not move around with a needle near them.
*It has also been shown to reduce pain after the vaccine is given!
Fever, Rash, Swollen lymph nodes, Peripheral Joint Pain, & Hives
What are side-effects? (Seen immediately to 21 days later)
The number of cases of most vaccine-preventable illnesses in the United States declined by what percent, after routine childhood immunizations were introduced
Vaccines cause the body to increase what to protect the child?
Produce T-lymphocytes and antibodies which will help fight off an infection in the future if a child comes in contact with it
Number of vaccines my child can receive in one visit
There is no upper limit to the number of vaccines that may be administered at a single visit. Below is a link to papers which discuss this evidence.
https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.newproxy.downstate.edu/pubmed?term=19659433
The MMR vaccine is what type of vaccine
live attenuated vaccine
Indirectly benefit unimmunized persons
Herd immunity
Exposing the body to an antigen to generate an adaptive immune response
active immunity
If you want to reduce post-vaccination pain in the child and they are receiving more than one vaccination in the visit, which vaccine do they receive first
the least painful vaccines
A 2014 systematic review of two cohort studies and four case control studies found...
no relationship between MMR vaccination and ASD
Type the number below into pub med for details on the studies
PMID:12421889
This vaccine is given to a child with 24 hours of being born and helps prevent a disease that can cause Liver failure and hepatocellular carcinoma
Hep B vaccine
Live attenuated vaccines (MMR) contain a living virus or infection that works by
introducing the living virus or bacteria that has been weakened so that it does not cause serious disease in people with healthy immune systems
How long should you/the provider watch the child to ensure no serious acute adverse effects occur after given a vaccine?
15 minutes
Link below for details
Kroger AT, Duchin J, Vázquez M. General best practice guidelines for immunization. Best practices guidance of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Available at: https://www-cdc-gov.newproxy.downstate.edu/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/general-recs/index.html (Accessed on May 16, 2019).
My child has a cold, but no fever, I ...... give my child the vaccine today.
Should!
Children with Primary immunodeficiency (PID) can recieve what type of vaccinations?
Killed, inactivated, or subcomponent vaccines
Breastfeeding gives a child what from the mother and how does it protect them?
Antibodies (IgA) which line their stomachs and protects them from infections
If your child experiences an adverse effect to a vaccine what should you do?
Inform the Dr and make sure they call the United States Department of Health and Human Services using VAERS (telephone number 1-800-822-7967).
The controversy surrounding a link between the MMR vaccine and Autism was magnified when a small case series was described in 1998 in what journal
The Lancet
Children who are behind on vaccines should be caught up using the minimum intervals between doses. Do patients need to restart the series?
It is not necessary to restart the series – even when the interval between doses is prolonged