You wouldnt want to send an army into a fight unprepared, right?
Then theres the practice of giving someonemultiplevaccines, where theyre getting more than one shot in the same visit.
Sometimes one or more of those shots is a combination vaccine.
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For instance a one-year-old might get an MMR vaccine the same day as the varicella vaccine.
There are two main reasons why this makes sense, theCDCexplains.
Additionally, bundling vaccines together is more convenient!
It can also be a benefit if your kid isnt a fan of doctors appointments…or shots.
But there are two main reasons why this doesnt happen.
How long this passive immunity lasts helps inform the immunization schedule.
Heres how we know that and how that knowledge informs and guides the immunization schedule.
immunization scheduleis crafted by theAdvisory Committee on Immunization Practices(ACIP), a body within the CDC.
And they arent just looking at research that tests each vaccine independently.
First things first: Allvaccinesonly contain very small amounts ofantigens.
The vaccines administered to babies and children each contain between one and 69 antigens, according to theCDC.
Vaccines are a very trivial small fraction of all that.
(Babies put their hands or other objects into their mouths hundreds of times anhour,theCDCestimates.
What else are they going to do all day?)
Sometimesvaccinescan also cause fevers, though theyre also typically mild.
But these medications can help your child feel better if theyre experiencing a post-vaccine fever.
Theres no evidence that youre preventing something bad, Salmon says.
In fact delaying vaccines can be a pretty dangerous move.
It makes it sound like it could be a good thing, he explains.
What itreally[means] is delaying vaccines.
Youre leaving your child vulnerable.
It only puts peopleincluding your childat unnecessary risk.
All parents want whats best for their kids, Omer says.
Thats what [the immunization schedule] representsthe best thing for the child.
This story is part of a larger package called Vaccines Save Lives.
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