Vaccination: What are the most important vaccines?

Vaccination is an effective means for the prevention of infectious diseases in infancy, which must be specially treated with the utmost importance for parents, doctors and teachers.

Vaccinate is to introduce into the body, antigens from bacteria or virus killed or attenuated, that trigger the receiver, an immune response: antibodies that are produced acting in defense of the individual against a subsequent contact with the infectious agent.

The vaccines most important are:

- BCG: is the vaccine must be administered at birth.

- Pentavalent: this corresponds to the diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and hepatitis B. should be administered at two, four, six and fifteen months of age. Should be vaccinated against hepatitis B at the age of twelve, if children were not previously.

- Triple bacterial: against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough. Should be administered at the age of five.

- Polio. It is given to the two, four, six months and one year of age.

- Triple viral: against mumps, rubella and measles. Should be given a year and five years as well.

- Varicella: is administered each year.

- Double bacterial: against diphtheria and tetanus. It is given to the twelve years

- Tetanus. It is administered every ten years from the twelve, with particular emphasis on pregnant women.

- Hepatitis A: should be given to the fifteen and twenty-one months.

- Pneumococcus C7V: it must be administered to two, four and twelve months.