What are the side effects of Hib vaccine?
Millions of doses of Hib vaccines have been given to children around the world. But there have never been any reports of serious reactions to Hib vaccine. However, if a child seems to have had a severe reaction to the vaccine, he or she should be given immediate medical attention. Only 25% of children receiving Hib vaccine develop mild redness, swelling and soreness at the injection site. This will go away within 1-3 days, and is not serious. Parents may want to give the child paracetamol to treat these symptoms. It is rare for a child to have a fever after being vaccinated only against Hib. However, infants vaccinated with pentavalent vaccine may have fever, probably because of the DPT. Children older than five years, teenagers, and adults should not be given DPT vaccine, or any combination vaccine containing DPT, because there is a higher risk of adverse reactions for those age groups. What is the Pentavalent vaccine? The pentavalent vaccine combines five different vaccines in one in
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