Womens and Parenting

From birth, babies have to undergo uncomfortable, but necessary, trance of vaccines.

Vaccines are used to prevent certain infectious which is injected into the body part of specific viruses or microorganisms causing disease in order to develop the body’s defenses against them.

When the germ, or part thereof, has been introduced into the baby’s body, your body creates antibodies that fight against him, and, if the disease or infection on which the vaccine, these antibodies fight the virus and protect them. It is an aggressive, but effective enough to achieve immunity to microorganisms attackers.

There is a schedule of vaccines covered by the Vaccine Committee AEP (Spanish Association of Pediatrics), which must be controlled by both the pediatrician and the parents.

During the first hours of life, in the same hospital where the child is born, is applied to the first vaccine against hepatitis B, is dosed in three doses at 0, 1 and 6 months of age. From that moment begins the agreed timetable that has to be taken compulsorily by all children. So, you have to get shots at 2 months, at 4, 6 to 15, at 18 months, at 4, 11 and 14.

In addition to mandatory vaccines, some pediatricians recommend other vaccines already up to parents to decide whether or not they put their babies, as Prevenar, the flu or fighting different types of Neumecoco.

Unlike vaccines against tetanus or diphtheria, which need to be strengthened over time to provide the required protection, other vaccines are injected once or in several doses, but no longer need to be strengthened over time to be effective.

Although not as common, vaccines can cause side effects in infants and undergo reactions such as swelling in the area of ??the sting or rash, a fever and mild.