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...
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