For children with chronic illness, missing regular wellness visits can negatively impact health well into adulthood.
Posts Tagged with
vaccination
Getting the Best Shot Before School Starts
Backpacks, check. School supplies, check. Lunchbox, check. Updated vaccine shots? Parents don’t forget to add a visit to your pediatrician office for back-to-school checkup and updated childhood vaccines.
COVID-19 Vaccine Answers from a Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Expert
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health pediatric infectious disease expert Roshni Mathew, MD, answers common questions about the COVID-19 vaccines.
Which flu vaccine should children get this year?
Influenza (flu) season runs from October through May – and, as with any other type of illness, prevention is the best protection. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended that all children over the age of 6 months get vaccinated.
Flumist nasal spray no longer an option: A flu vaccine Q&A with pediatrician Dr. Gowan
Ask any doctor what is the best way for you and your children to avoid the flu this season and they’ll give you a simple answer: Get a flu vaccination. Still, there are rumors and misinformation that can leave a parent concerned or unsure of the facts about the safety or necessity of vaccine.
Make this year a healthy school year
With the days of summer vacation soon coming to an end, parents are getting in gear to send their kids back to school. Along with stocking up on school supplies and buying new clothes, it’s also a good time to think about their health needs.
Side effects of childhood vaccines are extremely rare, new study finds
As you may have heard about elsewhere, a new paper published today on the safety of childhood vaccines provides reassurance for parents and pediatricians that side effects from vaccination are rare and mostly transient. The paper, a meta-analysis appearing in Pediatrics, updates a 2011 Institute of Medicine report on childhood vaccine safety. It analyzed the results of 67 safety studies of vaccines used in the United States for children aged 6 and younger.
