The Importance of Immunizations and What Vaccines Are Recommended

The Importance of Immunizations and What Vaccines Are Recommended

As your child grows, it’s important to keep up with their health by keeping up with immunizations and getting your child the correct immunization for their age. Your pediatricians at Riverside Pediatrics, LLC, in Riverside, and New Canaan, CT, can help keep your child on schedule with their immunizations to keep your child healthy.

What Immunizations Does Your Child Need?

Immunizations from your pediatricians in Riverside, and New Canaan, CT, keep your child's immune system healthy enough to fight off certain diseases and viruses. It’s important to keep your child up to date with their immunizations because it’s common for children to not have the best hygiene habits and when they aren’t vaccinated, there’s a higher risk for viruses to travel around easily. Most schools will require you to provide proof of vaccination to protect the young children at school. Immunizations help manage your child’s health care and can save you the cost of hospital visits.

Common immunizations that your child’s pediatrician may recommend are:

  • Influenza
  • Measles (MMR)
  • Meningitis
  • Hepatitis B
  • Rotavirus
  • Tetanus
  • Human Papillomavirus (HPV)

Your child should receive their first vaccination at birth, then throughout your child’s life, their pediatrician will recommend that you bring them in at intervals until they are eighteen years old. You should expect to visit the doctor every couple of months until your child is six years old. After that, there are certain shots, such as the influenza shot, that you may be advised to have your child receive once a year. Your pediatrician will be able to provide a detailed schedule of when to visit for immunizations and which ones your child will need at each visit.

Contact Your Pediatrician Today!

Keep your child’s health on track by making sure to keep them on schedule with their immunizations. Contact your child’s pediatricians at Riverside Pediatrics, LLC, at (203) 629-5800 for the office in Riverside, CT,  or at (203) 920-1675 for the office in New Canaan, CT, today!


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