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Suggest Painless Vaccine For PCV Booster Dose
Hi, May daughter if age 1 yr and 9 months and I need to get her the vaccination for PCV Booster dose. Since I am not aware of the product please suggest the good quality vaccine so that she will not get the pain .. I am not constraing about the price of the medicine..
Tue, 5 Aug 2014
Hi... Greetings from Chennai. usually PCV vaccines 2 brands are available in India. Both are not painful vaccines, but among them both, Prevnar (13 valent vaccine is techniqually more superior than Synflurix (10 valent vaccine). I sugget youo to go for Prevnar for your kid.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
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Hi,
Thank you for asking question on health care magic.
PCV shots are not generally painful.
If you want the pain should be still less, better use 1 ml syringe with a fine needle.
Hope this answer will serve your purpose
Please feel free to ask any more queries if required
Take care
Dr.M.V.Subrahmanyam MD;DCH
Associate professor of pediatrics
Thank you for asking question on health care magic.
PCV shots are not generally painful.
If you want the pain should be still less, better use 1 ml syringe with a fine needle.
Hope this answer will serve your purpose
Please feel free to ask any more queries if required
Take care
Dr.M.V.Subrahmanyam MD;DCH
Associate professor of pediatrics
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