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.
Before they were 6 years your children must have completed all the Polio vaccine, Hepatitis B, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Pneumococcal, Influenza type B, Rotavirus, Varicella, MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) and Hepatitis A.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that all children be vaccinated against influenza each year (known as the flu or flu vaccine), as long as they get older of 6 months. This vaccine is usually given from September because it prepares each year. Indeed, as we said Dr. Philip Lobel, an epidemiologist at the CDC, this year will combine the H1N1 vaccine with two others, the influenza B, and a new strain, influenza A, ( H3N2) that are the of influenza (or flu) season or seasonal. So you only need a single vaccine for protection.
It is also recommended that girls ages 11 to 12 years be vaccinated against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which helps prevent cervical cancer.
Posted in 
Tags: