What to know about the polio vaccine

When vaccinating children, both mothers and infants sometimes we fear, it is clear that children do not like to be vaccinated, but thanks to this we can prevent and eradicate diseases like polio, which is a viral disease that can paralyze some muscles of the body.

It can be mild or severe depending on the affected muscles. Fortunately has been eradicated by the effects of effective vaccines to prevent disease.

Children should receive four doses of the vaccine before entering school, and there are two types of vaccines against this disease: IPV (or inactivated polio vaccine) and injected into the leg or arm, and OPV (or attenuated polio vaccine) that is taken orally as drops.

This vaccine is placed at two months, four months, between twelve and eighteen months and between four and six years.

The two polio vaccines provide excellent protection against the disease naturally and prevent the virus that causes it and passed from one person to another. Although it contains a weakened form of the virus, in rare cases can cause paralysis in a child immunosuppression. Anyway, the odds are very low that to happen.

If your child is allergic to the antibiotics neomycin and streptomycin, it is likely that the doctor may recommend the oral form of the vaccine, as mentioned antibiotics are used to prepare the injectable formulation.

IPV provides excellent protection against polio and has been found except for mild swelling at the site of the puncture, it can cause palsies and prevents your child from getting terrible disease like polio.