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Polio is a virus that has the potential to infect any parts of the body including, but not limited to nerves and muscles. Primarily there are 3 types of polio namely, non-paralytic, spinal paralytic and bulbar. This disease shows minimal to no symptoms in more than 90 percent of the cases. 5 percent of the cases can show symptoms such as nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, sore throat and abdominal pain. Polio is a communicable disease and can cause massive damage if a proper dosage is not taken. It can...more

The majority of people infected with polio virus do not develop paralysis and remains healthy, however they are capable of carrying polio virus in their intestine and spreading it. The polio virus spreads through contaminated water and food, so when individuals do not have intestinal immunity, the polio virus multiplies in the gut and is excreted by the infected person.
Polio vaccination is safe for children.

As it's a government program and helps both personally and to the community you have to till 5 years.

NO need to worry about it ,you can vaccinate your child as per vaccination's schedule and get a dose of IPV or OPV to be delivered at age of 15 months.

There is no need for any polio now and you can take PCV vaccine against pneumonia duiue to P carinii bacteria and you can also take Typhoid vaccine and meningitis vaccines

Give penta 1 with OPV and then take IPV when it becomes available. IPV is in short supply but others are freely available in Mumbai. Ask in government hospitals, IPV may be available there. There is nothing optional here. These are additional vaccines, one is advised to give them to the baby if one can afford. Though bit costly they are certainly helpful to prevent the illnesses.

There should be gap of at least 4 weeks between two session of vaccination, it may be same or different vaccine.

Opv is the who-recommended vaccine for the global eradication of polio. Each child requires just two drops per dose to be immunized against polio. Usually administered four times if the epi schedule is followed, opv is safe and effective in providing protection against the paralyzing poliovirus.
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The idea of pulse polio is to give mass vaccination of inactivated polio virus as to get total immunity of the population called as" herd immunity" in mass immunisation programmes, in addition to protecting your baby you will help in achieving containment if wild polio virus by replacing it with inactivated virus from the polio drops. You aren t doing harm to your baby by not putting the drops as she will be protected from last vaccination, but if lot of people get left out then the wild virus c...more

The Pentavalent vaccine is a combination of five vaccines:-
(1) DTwP - Diphtheria, Pertussis (whole cell) & tetanus (3 vaccines) (2) Hepatitis B (1 vaccine)
(3) Hemophilus Influenza B (1 vaccine)
Making a total of five vaccine combined in a single injection
IPV - is the injectable Polio vaccine
OPV is the oral Polio vaccine
The Government provides the above vaccines free of cost.
The private hospital chart includes two more vaccines viz: -
Rotavirus vaccine is giv...more