Prevenar 7 16Mcg Injection Health Feed

Pneumococcal vaccine is now recommended for routine use as per iap and hence should be given. Flu vaccine is recommended for high risk individuals like those with asthma, allergy, frequent episodes of cough and cold and so on.

It can be taken as optional vaccine for additional protection. Govt gives only essential ones for the cost part of it Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) is a pneumococcal vaccine and a conjugate vaccine used to protect infants, young children, and adults against disease caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus)

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) is a pneumococcal vaccine and a conjugate vaccine used to protect infants, young children, and adults against disease caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus).
Well, it is not mandatory and is optional and is the reason for not avialable in Govt hospitals.

Every vaccine is compulsory if it is providing protection to your child. This vaccine prevents child from 3 dreadful diseases like pneumonia; meningitis; otitis media and sepsis. If affortability is not the criteria you go for this vaccination either of the 2 vaccinations as my colleague has mentioned.

At 6 months of age, your baby should receive vaccines to protect them from the following diseases:
diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough (pertussis) (dtap) (3rd dose)
haemophilus influenzae type b disease (hib) (3rd dose)
polio (ipv) (3rd dose)
pneumococcal disease (pcv13) (3rd dose)
rotavirus (rv) (3rd dose)
influenza (flu) (every year)
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Pcv i. E. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is injected at 1 and half; 2 and half and 3 and half months.

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

If money isn't the criteria you must go for all the vaccines. Pneumococcal vaccine will protect against invasive pneumococcal diseases like pneumonia, meningitis etc. After 6 months only 2doses are enough with a booster at 15 months.

Only one vaccine containing 6 vaccines of DPT, Hib, IPV, and Hep B is available, but costly. Along with it Pneumococcal vaccine is given. Oral polio and oral rotavirus vaccine is also given. In Govt. 5 vaccine are given together and it's free of cost. But rotavirus and Pneumococcal is not available in government in most States.

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.