INSPECCIONES Y CONTROLES ADICIONALES DURANTE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL GASODUCTO

This glossary describes some of the terms relevant to your child’s immunisations.

Acellular pertussis vaccine

Whooping cough vaccine containing only parts of the pertussis bacterial cells which can produce immunity in the person receiving the vaccine.

Anaphylactic reaction

An immediate and severe allergic reaction which needs urgent medical attention.

DTaP/IPV vaccine

A combined vaccine that protects against four diseases – diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and polio. It contains acellular pertussis vaccine and inactivated polio vaccine. It is given to young children aged three years four months to five years as a pre-school immunisation.

dTaP/IPV vaccine

A combined vaccine that protects against four diseases – diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and polio. It contains low-dose diphtheria vaccine, acellular pertussis vaccine and inactivated polio vaccine. It is an alternative to the DTaP/IPV vaccine that is given to pre-school children aged three years four months to five years.

DTaP/IPV/Hib vaccine

A combined vaccine that protects against five diseases – diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). It contains acellular pertussis vaccine and inactivated polio vaccine.

Fontanelle

Space between the bones at the top of a baby’s skull.

Hib/MenC vaccine

45 Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV)

Polio vaccine made from viruses that have been killed.

MenC vaccine

A single vaccine that protects against meningococcal C infections.

Neomycin

An antibiotic put into vaccines to prevent contamination by bacteria.

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)

A vaccine that protects against infections caused by 13 types of pneumococcal bacteria.

Polymyxin B

An antibiotic put into vaccines to prevent contamination by bacteria.

Rotavirus – the disease

A potentially serious infection that causes vomiting and diarrhoea in young babies.

Rotavirus – the vaccine

A vaccine that is given as drops at two and three months of age.

Streptomycin

An antibiotic put into vaccines to prevent contamination by bacteria.

Td/IPV vaccine

A combined vaccine that protects against three diseases – tetanus, diphtheria and polio. It contains tetanus, low-dose diphtheria and inactivated polio vaccine. It is given to young people aged 13 to 18 years to top up their levels of protection against the three diseases.

Thiomersal

A mercury-based preservative used in some vaccines during the production process or to prevent contamination.

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

Most immunisations are given without any trouble at all, but very rarely there may be problems. The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme is designed to help with the present and future financial burdens of the person affected by the

vaccination and their family. It covers all the vaccines described in this booklet except hepatitis B vaccine. There are several conditions that need to be met before a payment can be made. If you need more information, please contact: Vaccine Damage Payments Unit

Department for Work and Pensions Palatine House Lancaster Road Preston PR1 1HB Phone: 01772 899944 E-mail: [email protected]

© Crown copyright 2014

DOH1398 3p 100k May 14 (ECP) (408677) Produced by Williams Lea for Public Health England First published July 2013

The text of this document may be reproduced without formal permission or charge for personal or in-house use. If you need more copies of this booklet, please visit

www.orderline.dh.gov.uk and quote 404312/A guide to immunisations up to 13 months of age or contact DH Publications Orderline

Phone: 0300 123 1002 Minicom: 0300 123 1003

(8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday)

www.nhs.uk/vaccinations

If you want more advice on immunisation,

speak to your doctor, practice nurse or health visitor, or call NHS Direct on 0845 46 47.

For more information or to ask questions, visit www.nhs.uk/vaccinations.

Routine childhood immunisation programme from summer 2013

Each vaccination, except Rotavirus, is given as a single injection into the muscle of the thigh or upper arm. Rotavirus vaccine is given as drops to be swallowed.

At what age

to immunise Diseases protected against Vaccine given

Two months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Haemophilus influenzae

type b (Hib) Pneumococcal disease Rotavirus DTaP/IPV/Hib and Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) Rotavirus

Three months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib Meningococcal group C disease (MenC) Rotavirus

DTaP/IPV/Hib, MenC and Rotavirus Four months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib

Pneumococcal disease

DTaP/IPV/Hib and PCV Between 12 and 13 months

old – within a month of the first birthday

Hib MenC

Pneumococcal disease

Measles, mumps and rubella (German measles)

Hib/MenC, PCV and MMR

Three years and four months

or soon after Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio Measles, mumps and rubella

DTaP/IPV or dTaP/IPV and MMR

Girls aged 12 to 13 years Cervical cancer caused by human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 HPV 13 to 14 years old* Tetanus, diphtheria, polio and MenC Td/IPV, MenC * The MenC vaccination at this age will start to be given during the 2013/14 school year.

Immunisations for at-risk children

At what age

to immunise Diseases protected against Vaccine given

At birth

(to babies who are more likely to come into contact with TB than the general population)

Tuberculosis BCG

At birth

(to babies whose mothers have hepatitis B)