Vaccine Fears If you follow the recommendations, baby will get five shots (and one liquid!) by the time he’s two months old. And it’s easy to wonder whether you’re doing the right thing. The fear: Dangerous side effects Why give baby something that can cause diarrhea, allergic reaction, rash or fever?The potential side effects are less scary than your baby getting, say, diphtheria (as many as 1 in 5 kids who get it dies) or polio (it can cause lifelong paralysis). “Minor side effects are common -- a sore arm, body aches, maybe a fever,” says Ari Brown, MD, a pediatrician in Austin, Texas, and author of Baby 411. “Those are a small price to pay for protection against a disease that is much, much worse to experience.”“Significant adverse effects are rare,” Brown adds. “For instance, the risk of having an anaphylactic reaction is about 1 in a million. Could it happen? Yes. No medication is risk free. But, the risk is extremely low compared to the great benefit.”Vaccines undergo rigorous testing before they come out on the market, and there are regular follow-up tests, says Michael T. Brady, MD, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’s (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases and associate medical director at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. For more, visit m.thebump/new-mom-new-dad/newborn-basics/articles/vaccine-fears.aspx #jross
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 20:33:24 +0000
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