Immunization Schedule for Kids

Protect your child with vaccines at the right time. Following our immunization schedule guidelines helps boost your child’s immunity against serious diseases.

Childhood Immunization Schedule

Influenza a (flu) - Children 6 months and older should get a flu vaccination by the end of October. Some children may need two doses of flu vaccine. Your health care provider can tell you if your child needs two doses.

Pediarix: A combination vaccine to help prevent diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, and polio.

• Diphtheria can cause very bad throat infections that can cause the airway to close and can cause heart failure and paralysis.
• Tetanus can cause paralysis of muscles and jaw.
• Pertussis can cause whooping cough and can also cause pneumonia, seizures and brain damage.
• Hepatitis B can cause severe liver disease that can lead to liver failure.
• Polio can cause permanent paralysis and meningitis.

Hib: Helps prevent Haemophilus influenza type B (can cause pneumonia and severe infections of the airway, heart, blood, and bones.)

Prevnar 13: Helps prevent infections by pneumococcal bacteria (can cause ear infections, pneumonia, and meningitis).

RotaTeq: Take it by mouth to help prevent rotavirus (can cause severe diarrhea in infants).

DTaP: A combination vaccine that helps prevent diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough.

Varicella: Helps prevent chickenpox (can cause severe skin infections, pneumonia, and brain damage).

MMR: A combination vaccine that helps prevent measles, mumps and rubella.

• Measles can cause ear infections, pneumonia, seizures, and brain damage.
• Mumps can cause deafness, meningitis, painful swelling of the testicles or ovaries, and rarely sterility.
• Rubella can cause miscarriages and congenital disabilities.

Hepatitis A: Helps prevent Hepatitis A (a liver disease that can lead to liver failure).

Kinrix: Helps prevent diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, and polio.

ProQuad: A combination vaccine that prevents MMR and Varicella

Tdap: Helps prevent tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough.

Menveo: Helps prevent meningococcus (can cause meningitis, particularly in college-age kids).

Gardasil: Helps prevent human papillomavirus (can cause cervical cancer).

Bexsero: Helps prevent Neisseria meningitidis (meningitis B).