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What Are The Recommended Vaccination Guidelines For Children?

Posted on Mon, 3 Aug 2015

Question: can you please provide me chart of vaccination for baby's life cycle.

Answered by Dr. Pradeep Kumar Jain (48 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Chart is below

Detailed Answer:
Hello

Thanks for the query.
We pediatrician follow the vaccination guidelines as recommended by XXXXXXX Academy of Pediatrics(IAP).The IAP has recommended the recent guideline in 2014.I am hereby giving the chart as per IAP guidelines

At Birth BCG(For Tuberculosis),OPV0(1st dose Oral Polio vaccine)
HepB 1(1st dose Hepatitis B vaccine)

6 weeks DTwP1(1st dose of vaccination for Diphtheria,Tetanus and Pertussis)
IPV1(1st dose of injectable Polio Vaccine)
Hib1(1st dose of Hemophilus influenzae B vaccine)
HepB2(2nd dose)
Rotavirus 1 (Oral Rotavirus 1st dose vaccine)
PCV 1(1st dose of pneumococcalvaccine)

10 weeks DTwP2, IPV2, Hib 2, Rotavirus 2, PCV 2

14 weeks DTwP3, IPV3, Hib3, Rotavirus 3, PCV 3

6 months Hepatitis B3

9 month Measles

12 months Hepatitis A 1, MMR 1

15 months Booster dose of DTP, PCV, Hib, IPV and 1st dose of varicella

18 months Hepatitis A 2

2 years Typhoid 1

5 years OPV3,DTP 2nd booster,Varicella 2nd dose,MMR 2nd dose

The various combinations are available in the market to decrease the number of pricks and visit.
Fever is a common side effect and it suggests that child is responding to the vaccine.
Rotavirus third dose is needed if Rotateq vaccine is given.In case of Rotarix vaccination only two dosage are needed.

Influenza vaccine can be given at as early as 6 months of age.And it has to be given yearly according to recent strains.
According to recent guidelines acellular so called painless vaccine should not be given as the efficacy may be less.

I hope this helps.

Please do ask if you have any further query.
Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Jain (18 days later)

Thank you Doctor for your suggestion some times back. But there is a difference of opinion for vaccines details what you've shared & what was shared by pediatric during vaccination. As per her, now guidelines have changed by pediatric association & what i was showing to her is of old in nature.

Answered by Dr. Pradeep Kumar Jain (6 hours later)

Brief Answer:
There is some revision according to current recommendation

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for writing back

I am sorry as the XXXXXXX Academy of Pediatrics has recently revised the vaccination guideline.Your doctor is right as there are some changes according to the recent guideline.
First instead of measles vaccination at nine months MMR(Measles,Mumps,Rubella) should be given.
Second the Typhoid conjugate vaccine can be given at 9-12 months.The gap between MMR and Typhoid conjugate vaccine should be at least 4 weeks.

Apart from this all the schedule are same.

Regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar