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Many parents have doubts about how effective the vaccines and what are the possible side effects. Why is my son became ill despite having the vaccine? Why is my child had fever? Why is my daughter reacted badly after you apply a vaccine?

First, no vaccine is 100% effective and there is a small chance that some may not fully protect children. However, this rarely happens.

Secondly, it is possible that vaccines cause some side effects on your children. This happens in some people, do not forget that they are fooling the body into thinking that an infection. Most often they happen is that the child can feel pain at the site of injection or may have a slight fever after receiving a vaccine, but do not worry about side effects they are usually short and not serious. The serious side effects are rare. Read the rest of this entry »

Simply put, vaccines are like a shield that protects your children against communicable diseases. Vaccines make the body believe there is an infection that activate the immune system and build defenses. Thus, when a real infection, caused by a virus (for example) trying to enter the body of your children, they already have the defenses to protect themselves and not get sick.

Having current immunizations not only protect the health of your children, but of all his classmates. To the extent that a child is protected against contagious diseases, is not going to get sick, and if not ill, can not infect anyone else.

Vaccines are a public health issue and that is why in most states require that children are current on their shots to get back to class. Read the rest of this entry »