Injections for Kids

The Injections Your Child Should Have
When Immunisation is Due	Which Immunisation	Type (How given)
At two months	Polio	By mouth
At two months	Hib Diphtheria Tetanus Whooping cough Memingitis C	One injection
At three months	Polio	By mouth
At three months	Hib Diphtheria Tetanus Whooping cough Memingitis C	One injection
At 4 months	Polio	By mouth
At 4 months	Hib Diphtheria Tetanus Whooping cough Memingitis C	One injection
At 12 to 15 months	Measles Mumps Rubella	One injection
3 to 5 years (usually before the child starts school)	Measles Mumps Rubella	One injection
	Diphtheria Tetanus	One injection
	Polio	By mouth
10 to 13 years (sometimes shortly after birth)	Tuberculosis	Skin test plus one injection (BCG) if needed
School leavers 14 to 19 years	Diphtheria Tetanus	One injection
School leavers 14 to 19 years	Polio	By mouth

Much has been written about the dangers of many of these immunisations, mostly misguided, claiming that they are dangerous and cause death. This is total rubbish as UK figures show that there has been a large drop in deaths attributable to childhood diseases. As an example, HIB meningitis used to affect 1300 and killed 65 each year. Since the introduction of the vaccine in October 1992, it has been virtually eliminated with a 95 per cent decline in cases. With the Whooping cough vaccine, when the scare over it caused a drop in children being immunised, a few years later an epidemic of whooping cough came about. Evidence shows that babies especially, are more likely to suffer brain damage from whooping cough itself than from the vaccine. Where you can see these vaccines are grouped together, this indicates that the one injection covers the whole group. e.g. Measles, Mumps and Rubella (German Measles for the uninitiated) are just a single jab.

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