Polio Vaccine Health Feed

Hello, Lybrate user, I being a homoeopath can suggest a good homoeopathic anti chicken pox (prophylactic) medicine.@ Variollinum 30-6 pills -6 pills 1 dose 3 days.
Tk, care.

Choosing a vaccine is your prerogative. We as pediatricians can only suggest. Both vaccines are effective. Advantage you have with pentaxim is that you additionally got polio injection which is not available separately in private.

Hello. Injectable polio is not available since many months. Nothing to worry. Yiu can give oral polio drops instead of IPV according to schedule. In addition to this, give polio drops given by government every 6 months on pulse polio days. Thank you!

Yes at 5 years there are booster doses of dtwp, oral polio, chickenpox and typhoid booster required.

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

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.

Please leave the lump alone. It will settle down on its own. at most you could to some gentle warm fomentation for a day or two.

Measles vaccine is after 9 months. Flu is optional vaccine. Two doses at 1 month interval first year. Then one dose every year as of now available vaccine.

Government is planning to eradicate the polio virus from our country as early as possible and hence they are giving booster dose to the children every year and which needs to be given.

Yes you can give her hexavalent vaccine at 10 wk and 14wks and then booster at 15-18 months.
No need of 3 doses now.