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Vaccines

Vaccine Information

"The two public health interventions that have had the greatest impact on the world's health are clean water and vaccines". - World Health Organization

Interlachen Pediatrics strongly supports the use of vaccines to prevent many of the most devastating pediatric illnesses. We believe this to be consistent with our mission and our core values of excellence (as repeated studies have shown vaccines to be safe and remarkably effective, perhaps the greatest medical advancement of the last century) and compassion (treating your children as if they were our very own).

To see more information about vaccines, go to the following links:

Vaccine Information Statements

The following documents explain the various vaccines to patients and parents:

Newly Recommended Vaccinations

The Centers for Disease Control has recently recommended that several new vaccines be given routinely to children to protect them from specific serious infectious diseases. These vaccines are:

  • Gardasil (vaccine for adolescent girls, 11 years and older, to protect against cervical cancer)
    (CDC info) (manufacturer info)
  • Hepatitis A (recommended for all children 1 year of age and older; consists of two doses, given at least 6 months apart)
    (CDC info)
  • Influenza (recommended for all children > 6 months of age)
    (CDC info)
    Additionally there is a nasally adminstered vaccine, Flumist, available for select children
    (CDC info) (manufacturer info)
  • Menactra (vaccine to protect against a deadly form of meningitis, recommended for children 11 years and older) (CDC info)

* The above vaccines may be administered at the same visit.

Interlachen Pediatrics strongly recommends that you consider these vaccines for your children. Information provided by the CDC is provided via the links above and additional information from the manufacturer regarding the new Flumist and Gardasil vaccines is also available above via a separate link. Our office strongly recommends that you read this information before coming in for your vaccine administration appointment so you will be well informed. These vaccines can most often be given by our nurse without requiring an appointment with your health care provider. The purpose of this form is to request such an appointment.

Some of the vaccines recommended for adolescent females are not recommended for individuals who are or may become pregnant. Please discuss this with your daughter before coming into the office and review the vaccine information statements (VIS) from the CDC included here. There are other specific but rare reasons why your child should not be vaccinated.

To schedule an appointment to receive the immunization(s) listed above, click here.

Interlachen's Vaccine Policy

Interlachen Pediatrics is committed to recommending only those treatments and therapies that have been supported by research and sound scientific reasoning. Therefore, our office strongly recommends that your children receive the routine schedule of childhood vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This schedule of vaccines has been devised by the world’s foremost authorities in infectious disease prevention. It is the culmination of decades of international research and scientific discovery. The individuals involved have dedicated their lives to the study of vaccines, and their efforts are responsible for saving countless millions of lives worldwide. Their recommendations are further scrutinized by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the highly regarded Institutes of Medicine and countless other scientific organizations. Needless to say these public policy decisions regarding our collective children’s health is not taken lightly.

Over the last several years there has been media speculation that Autism is caused by the administration of vaccines. There is now a huge body of international scientific research disputing the claim that MMR or other vaccines cause Autism. The same is true regarding the preservative Thimerosal. Despite this research, it has been difficult to convince the public of these facts because of the emotional issues propagated by the media.

The Medical community has made giant strides in the fight against diseases that have killed millions. Smallpox, meningitis, polio and diphtheria are terms that parents do not have to hear used to describe their children anymore, at least in the United States. Our duty as physicians and nurses compel us to educate our patients to not let down their guard against these diseases which unfortunately are only an airplane ride away.

Therefore, our physicians and nurses recommend and will follow the schedule of childhood vaccines published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We will not split MMR vaccine into separate components. We will not follow alternative schedules published on the Internet that are based on anecdote and hysteria. Our Physicians are the best trained to advise you on vaccine preventable disease for your child and the appropriate time for their administration.

Vaccine Schedule

  1. Birth: Hepatitis B*
  2. 2 month visit: DTaP, Hib, IPV, Hepatitis B, Pneumococcal Conjugate, & Rotavirus
  3. 4 month visit: DTaP, Hib, IPV, Pneumococcal Conjugate, & Rotavirus
  4. 6 month visit: DTaP, Hib, IPV, Pneumococcal Conjugate, & Rotavirus
  5. 9 month visit: Hepatitis B
  6. 12 month visit: Varivax, Pneumococcal Conjugate, & Hepatitis A
  7. 15 month visit: DTaP, Hib, IPV, & MMR
  8. 18 month visit: Hepatitis A
  9. 4-5 year old visit: Boosters of MMR, DTaP, & IPV
  10. 11-12 year old visit: Tdap, Menactra

Notes regarding newly recommended vaccines Menactra, Tdap, and Hepatitis A:

Menactra is a meningococcal vaccine (protective against some forms of bacterial meningitis) that is recommended for all patients 11 years or older; the vaccine is especially important for those leaving for college or if attending a boarding school. To read more, click here.

Tdap vaccine is a vaccine that serves as a booster for tetanus, dipterhia and pertussis. Previously, all children entering seventh grade received a tetanus/diptheria booster; the currrent recommendation simply adds further protection for pertussis ("whooping cough"), which has become a common infectious cause of cough in adolescents. To read more, click here.

Hepatitis A vaccine is a vaccine that was previously recommended for patients traveling to areas where this infection is more prevalent or when going away to college. Recently it has become a vaccine that is recommended for all children. To see more information regarding this vaccine, click here.

Note: The first Hepatitis B is often, but not always, given in the hospital shortly after birth.

Vaccines and Autism

Links to articles discussing vaccines & autism