Popular Immunization Myths Busted

It's Better To Get Vaccines One At A Time

As doctors began recommending more and more vaccinations, many parents worried their children might get sick from an overload of vaccines. This led to many thinking it's better to get vaccines one at a time. However, this significantly underestimates the human immune system. As soon as we are born, we have plenty of B and T immune cells that work to develop antibodies against foreign organisms.

Experts have calculated even young children can respond to ten thousand vaccines at a single time. Therefore, you have nothing to worry about from just the eleven recommended vaccines. Getting multiple vaccinations at once is often preferable because many of them can be mixed. This reduces the number of shots children have to take, so it is less traumatic.

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