Pneumovax 23 Vaccine Health Feed

Administer pneumococcal conjugate vaccine intramuscularly. The preferred site for infants and young children is the vastus lateralis muscle in the anterolateral thigh. The preferred injection site in older children and adults is the deltoid muscle. Let's have a detailed discussion to ensure proper treatment.

6 weeks vaccine list. Painless - hexaxim around 3800
Rota - 800 approx
PCV7 - 1600 approx depends which molecule your doc choose.

It is better to take typhoid vaccine at any age after six months of age. For children bellow two years of age (tcv) polysaccharide conjugate vaccine should be used. After two years routine vi surface polysaccharide vaccine can be given every three years. Need for booster dose of tcv conjugate vaccine is not yet studied.

The child should receive several vaccines like DPT, OPV, IPV, pneumococcal, Rotavirus, Hepatitis B etc. Please see Pediatrician and start the serial vaccinations right away.

PCV is vaccine for Pneumococcal Diseases, which includes Pneumonia, Ear Infection and Meningitis (Fever with Convulsion). This vaccine will help to prevent these pneumococcal infection.
Rota Vaccine will help to prevent Rota Virus related diarrhoea, which is common in infants.
So, I ll suggest you to go ahead with vaccination.
And post vaccination there is no pain or fever, with these two vaccines, so you need not to worry.
Kindly consult your pediatrician, as he can guide you be...more

ALL vaccines are good . if u can afford u must give all vaccines .! u can go through iap vaccination schedule available online.

Dear lybrate-user, pneumoccocal vaccine is for pneumonia prevention.
It is not given in national schedule and it is costly. Government does not provide it. However indian acadamy does recommend it there are two brands - synflorix and prevenar. Prevenar is costly.
Both does not have much differences.

If you have not given pneumococcal vaccine to your child of 10 mths, it can be given at this age also. It will be given as 2 primary does and 1 booster at 18 months.
Consult you doctor for vaccination.

No vaccines are necessary than polio.
Don't miss it.
And take only government hospital approved vaccines.

MMR is superior to Mr. vaccine as it has additional mumps coverage which is also potentially dangerous infection.