What is the Interval For Non-simultaneous Administration of Live Virus Vaccines?
Discussion
Vaccines are a mainstay of infectious disease prevention and health promotion. Infants, children and adults benefit from vaccines the most when they are given on the recommended schedules. However there are times when this is not possible as children come to the physician a little early, or a little late, or had unavailable records and so received addition vaccine, etc. There are many questions that arise because of these timing issues such as the one above.
Standard vaccine schedules can be reviewed here.
Commonly administered vaccines includes:
Live-attenuated vaccines
Cholera
Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR combined vaccine)
Polio, oral
Rotavirus
Smallpox
Typhoid, oral
Varicella
Yellow fever
Inactivated vaccines
Hepatitis A
Influenza, injectable
Polio, injectable
Rabies
Typhoid, injectable
Subunit, recombinant, polysaccharide, and conjugate vaccines
Haemophilus influenzae type b (HIB) disease
Hepatitis B
Human papillomavirus (HPV)
Pertussis (part of the DTaP combined vaccine)
Pneumococcal disease
Meningococcal disease
Varicella zoster
Toxoid vaccines
Diphtheria
Tetanus
Simultaneous vaccine administration
Children can receive as many vaccines as needed at one time, so called simultaneous administration. There is no upper limit to the number of vaccines that can be given simultaneously. All vaccines that are indicated can be given simultaneously. There are no contraindications to this practice with 2 exceptions: 1) a patient needing both PCV13 (pneumococc...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
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