Vaccines for Infants, Children, and Teens

Vaccines help protect infants, children, and adolescents from serious diseases. Inoculating a child's vaccine means that the child may be immunized with the disease (protection) before the child is exposed to the disease.

Do you know that other people can be protected by vaccinating children? For regional immunity, the vaccine helps to prevent your child's brother, elderly family and friends from getting sick. Learn more about community immunity

Children are at high risk of developing infections because their immune system has yet to establish the necessary defenses to combat serious infections and diseases. Therefore, for infants and young children, diseases such as whooping cough and pneumococcus are very serious and may be fatal in some cases. Immunization begins early in life to protect children before they are exposed to these diseases

No, the vaccine does not strain the immune system. Your child's immune system successfully resists thousands of bacteria every day. Even if your child is vaccinated several times a day, the vaccine occupies only a small part of the body's bacteria.

Not only children but adults also need to administer a specific vaccine at least once. It may take more than one dose to build adequate disease resistance. Protection of the vaccine gradually disappears over time.

Yes. Often, your child may be vaccinated against a composite vaccine - or a vaccine that protects them from multiple diseases -. This means that their vaccine will decrease, and the number of visits to your hospital will decrease. Details of combination vaccine (PDF - 401KB)

Experts recommend not advertising or delaying your child's vaccination. Spreading a vaccine has no advantage - Please protect by protecting infants and children according to the recommended schedule by providing immunity early in life. If your child misses or delays the vaccine, there is a risk of becoming a serious disease that can be prevented.

Maybe, but first ask your child's pediatrician. Children are usually vaccinated with light diseases such as colds, low fever, ear infections and diarrhea (watery stools). Learn more about vaccines when children are sick (PDF - 606KB)

Immunization is one of the best ways that parents can protect infants, children and adolescents from 16 potentially harmful diseases. Diseases that can be prevented with a vaccine may be very serious, especially in infants and toddlers, even hospitalization or even death may be necessary. To see if your child is up-to-date, please contact our parent's page and contact your family doctor. You may know that you can share everything with your baby when you are pregnant. In other words, even if you receive vaccinations, not only will you protect yourself, but because it is too young for a baby to develop immunity in the months since birth it will give you some protection. CDC encourages you to receive some cough and flu vaccination during each pregnancy to help protect yourself and the baby you are developing. For details, you can visit our maternal vaccination page and contact your doctor at the next appointment.

Pertussis cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease commonly known as a cough of pertussis. Children with pertussis often cough for 4 to 8 weeks, but the highest mortality rate is for infants. Immunized health workers and pregnant women are the most effective strategies to prevent vaccination for very small infants. Hepatitis B (HepB) is a highly contagious viral infection that attacks the liver and spreads through contact with infected people's blood and other body fluids. As shown in the figure below, it is estimated that about 100,000 people will die of chronic liver disease due to hepatitis B every year. The World Health Organization recommends that all babies receive vaccinations as soon as possible after birth, preferably within 24 hours.

Yes. Hepatitis B vaccine has been proven to be safe when administered to infants, children, adolescents and adults. Since 1982 it is estimated that more than 70 million young adults and adults in the United States and more than 50 million babies and children are vaccinated against at least one hepatitis B vaccine since 1982. Vaccination occasionally causes pain in the arm, but violent reactions are rare. Yes. The long-standing experience with hepatitis B vaccines did not show a significant risk of adverse events in developing fetuses. Current vaccines contain non-infectious HBsAg and do not pose hazards to the fetus.