Some parents get nervous about giving kids multiple vaccines at once. But the research shows it's safe, and better than following a delayed immunization schedule, writes one pediatrician.
Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
"Your child is due for shots today," is frequently followed in my practice by a grimace and a visible tightening of parents' hold on their baby. Then comes my rehearsed recital of the diseases against which we are protecting the baby through vaccination and lastly, I lay out the total number of shots due. That is when the bargaining starts --"Does she really need that many Dr.
It is perhaps because I have become used to this bargaining dance, that the results of a study published Friday in the journal Pediatrics do not surprise me. Using data from the 2014 National Immunization Surveillance Survey, the latest available data from a nationally representative sample at the time of the study, researchers found that over a third of parents of children ages 19 to 35 months followed delayed immunization schedules.
Yet the system is not built to give me extra time or money to have these types of discussions in the office. If I am behind, the wheels keep turning, the next patient and the one after that are waiting. On busy days, I often want to cave, to let parents dictate the vaccine schedule. I sometimes say this aloud,"It is much easier for me to only order what you're telling me to order and send you home.
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