Maryland's Devoted Pediatric Doctor
Pediatric medical doctor specialist Dr. Corazon Sanchez created Sanchez Pediatrics with offices in Essex, Rising Sun & Port Deposit, MD, and advocates childhood immunizations. Our award-winning pediatrician devotes her life to providing quality healthcare to her young patients.
Our doctor believes that if too many parents refuse vaccinations for their children, childhood diseases that are rare due to immunizations will return. One vaccination our doctor wants to discuss is flu shots and the five things that parents should know about this vaccination.
5 Things Parents Should Know About Flu Shots
Sanchez Pediatrics in Essex, Rising Sun & Port Deposit, MD, considers immunizations as preventative care. While some vaccinations keep the child from contracting a specific disease like smallpox, polio, and more, others lessen the effects should your child contract diseases like the flu.
Because many children come in contact with other children daily at school, vaccinations help to protect your child, your family, friends, and society in general.
While vaccinations like the flu shot may have minor, temporary side effects for one to two days, such as mild muscle aches, headache, and generalized ill feeling, that quickly disappear, these little, quick-to-go away side effects far outweigh the risks if you do not get one.
- Research found that flu shots reduce the effects of the flu should you contract the flu.
- Flu shots reduce flu-related hospitalizations.
- If your child has a chronic health condition like asthma or diabetes, a yearly flu shot is vital.
- Flu shots decrease risks for severe life-threatening flu complications.
- In most cases, flu shots keep you from getting the flu.
Call Us Today Regarding the Flu Shot
Please call our pediatric specialist, Dr. Sanchez, at Sanchez Pediatrics in Essex, Rising Sun & Port Deposit, MD, at (410) 642-9172 for an appointment for your child's annual flu shot and immunizations.
If you seek a quality and experienced pediatric doctor for your child, we would love to meet you and your child and provide high-quality health care. Ask us about our flu/vaccination schedule. Train your child to get their flu shot every year, so they will hopefully continue when an adult.