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Poliomyelitis (polio, for short) is a serious illness that can cause paralysis (when you can’t move your arms and legs) or even death. Polio is caused by a virus. The virus can be spread by drinking water with the polio virus in it. It can also be passed by close contact, such as kissing, with an infected person. Before the first polio vaccine was developed in the 1950s, thousands of children got polio every year. Fortunately, the use of the polio vaccine has made the disease very rare in most parts of the world.
You can keep your children from getting polio by making sure they get the polio vaccine.
A vaccine is used to protect you from getting a disease. The polio vaccine, also called IPV, is given by injection (a "shot"). (It used to be given by drops in the mouth.)
Most children get 4 doses of polio vaccine on this schedule:
Your child should not get the polio shots if he or she is allergic to these medicines: neomycin, streptomycin or pohs old.
Yolymyxin B.
Most people have no problems. Some people will have some pain or redness where the shot was given. Vaccines carry a small risk of serious harm, such as a severe allergic reaction.
The polio vaccine doesn’t cause polio.
If your child has any reaction after getting the polio vaccine, call your doctor as soon as possible. In addition, if your child gets hives (swelling, itching and a burning sensation of the skin), has problems breathing, or goes into shock (becomes weak, faint, cold, clammy and sweaty), call 911 or take your child to a hospital emergency room. Be sure to tell the doctors caring for your child the day and time your child received the vaccine. Ask your doctor to file a Vaccine Adverse Event Report form with the CDC, or you can do it yourself by calling 800-822-7967.
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Source
Poliovirus Vaccine Options by RK Zimmerman, M.D., M.P.H., and SJ Spann, M.D. (American Family Physician enero 01, 1999, http://www.aafp.org/afp/990101ap/113.html)
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Reviewed/Updated: 12/10
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