Less than a month before the start of the school year, the Social Security Fund (CSS) reminds parents to update the vaccination scheme for children and adolescents, to avoid exposing themselves to diseases such as hepatitis, polio, mumps, measles , whooping cough and COVID, among others.
Natividad Mendoza, a nurse from the CSS Maternal and Child Program, highlighted that vaccination of children begins from the age of two months and continues with the scheme established according to age groups. When the child enters the school system, generally from the age of four, he must comply with his vaccination schedule to avoid the development of diseases.
| Vaccines | Age | Dose |
| Tetraxin (diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and polio) | 4 years | 2nd. booster |
| Influenza | 1 year and older | 1 dose every year. (starting in April) |
| chicken pox | 4 years | Booster |
| COVID-19 | 6 months to 4 years | They start their scheme with 3 doses (First and second, one month apart, and the third 2 months apart) |
| MMR | 15-19 years | 2 doses |
| HPV boys and girls | 10 years | 2 doses |
| Tdap (booster) | 10 years | |
| Bivalent | 12 years booster (can be received after completing two doses of the monovalent) | 1 dose |
Mendoza recalled that children have to be taken to the pediatrician for general health control, which includes laboratories, dentistry and nutrition; In addition, vacations should be used to carry out physical activities, fine and gross motor skills, which help them in their growth and development.
Note: Deysi García Miter
