Ensuring your child receives the right vaccinations at the right age is one of the most important ways to help them stay healthy and keep serious diseases at a distance. Over the course of their childhood and adolescence, your child will receive more than a dozen required vaccinations, half of which will be administered by the age of two. Keeping track of your child’s vaccinations isn’t something you should trust to memory.
The recommended vaccination schedule [1] is structured to optimize vaccine effectiveness, therefore it’s very important to stick to the recommended timing as much as possible. The vaccination schedule is an easy tool to follow, and helps simplify the task of knowing when your child needs their next vaccination, whether it’s the four required doses of the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus-polio vaccine, or the first or second dose of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine.