As a parent, you want to keep your children safe. Routine well-visits and childhood vaccinations are an important way to ensure that your child and community remain healthy and protected against serious diseases, like measles and whooping cough – and seasonal illnesses like flu and RSV.
Konza Prairie Community Health Center encourages parents to make sure children are up to date on all routinely recommended vaccines.
Well-child visits and check-ups are essential for healthy kids
Regular wellness check-ups are the best time for:
- Tracking growth and developmental milestones
- Discussing any concerns about your child’s health
- Getting scheduled vaccinations to prevent illnesses like measles, whooping cough, and other serious diseases
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Starting at birth, well-child visits are recommended at specific ages and intervals throughout the first years of a child’s life. It is important to keep these check-ups on-time to ensure you child’s growth, development, and vaccinations stay on track.
But sometimes life happens, and an appointment may need to be rescheduled. If this occurs – it is important to keep your child’s next appointment to catch up on vaccinations and get back on track for school, child care, and beyond.
Recommended Vaccines for Children and Adolescents
You can review the CDC’s parent-friendly immunization schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Vaccine schedule: Birth – 6 Years
Vaccine schedule: 7 – 18 Years
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Seasonal Flu Vaccine – starting at 6 months
When your baby reaches six months, you can protect them against influenza. The first time your child gets the flu vaccine, they will also need a second dose four weeks later.
Influenza is a tricky virus and even healthy kids can develop severe complications that send them to the hospital. The flu vaccine is very good at preventing that severe disease, which is why we recommend everyone get it every year, starting at age six months.
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Are you Pregnant? Vaccines Protect You and Your Baby
If you are pregnant, you have the power to protect yourself and your baby during each pregnancy from serious diseases like whooping cough and flu.
Getting vaccinated during your pregnancy can help protect your baby after birth by passing on antibodies.
These antibodies can give your baby protection from flu and whooping cough until it is time for their own vaccines.
Routine Vaccines Give Children and Teens a Healthy Start
Parents, you have the power to protect your children against serious diseases like measles, cancers caused by HPV, and whooping cough.
It’s particularly important for you to work with your child’s medical provider to make sure they get caught up on missed well-child visits and recommended vaccines.
The immunization schedule is designed to provide immunity (protection) early in life, before children are likely to be exposed to serious, potentially life-threatening diseases.
Some vaccines require more than one dose to provide your child with the best protection. Each recommended dose is important.
View CDC’s parent-friendly immunization schedule to see which vaccines your children need:
Vaccine schedule: Birth – 6 Years
Vaccine schedule: 7 – 18 Years
Did you know? Preteens and teens need four types of vaccines to help protect against serious diseases:
- Meningococcal vaccine to protect against meningitis and bloodstream infections
- HPV vaccine to protect against cancers cause by HPV
- Tdap vaccine to protect against tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough
- Yearly flu vaccine to protect against seasonal flu
Updated COVID-19 Vaccines: Everyone Age 6 months and older
Getting a COVID-19 vaccine is a safer, more reliable way to build protection than getting sick with COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccination helps protect people by creating an immune response without the potentially severe illness or post-COVID conditions that can be associated with COVID-19 infection.
Make sure everyone in your family is up-to-date on their protection.
Click here for the latest information on COVID-19 vaccines at Konza.
To learn more about COVID-19 vaccination, check out the following CDC link:
Stay Up to Date with COVID-19 Vaccines | CDC
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