In tonight’s Covenant Children’s Report we talk to Pediatrician, Dr. Karen Soriano about vaccinations before school starts. Are your children up to date?
Soriano tells us that it’s time to review and update all vaccinations. “The more important one schoolwise, is preschoolers, so they’re going to get their 4 year old shots, which is the boosters of the measles, mumps, rubellas, chicken pox, diptheria, tetnus, pertussis, and their polio vaccines. The second is of course the middle schoolers, those are the incoming sixth graders, seventh grades, where it’s also required for them to have it, but it’s also important that they are re-immunized and of course the new ones are also given, especially miningitis, tetnus, and pertussis again.”
Dr. Soriano states that vaccines are very important, because it can prevent diseases for your child and for other people. “If you’re not immunized, then you’re putting other people at risk. It helps down the road, we may irradicate polio, we may irradicate things down the road because people get immunized, and that’s the target, it helps with generations to come.”
