What Are the Dangers of Delaying Vaccination on Children's Health?

Every parent wants what is best for their child. When it comes to protecting your child, you leave no stone unturned to ensure that your child lives a happy and healthy life. Experts physicians at Phoenix Family Medical Clinic say that one of the most important ways to protect your child is to give timely vaccinations.

There are several reasons why it is essential to vaccinate your child. Vaccinations can protect your child from several diseases that otherwise can prove to be fatal. It protects them from diseases that can paralyze them and give a life of pain and suffering. Vaccinations can result in pain and discomfort or other minor side-effects. But the prevention of fatal disease is a benefit that is much greater than the possible side effects. Vaccinations are carefully researched before they are offered as a preventive treatment. They not only help in preventing disease but also prevent its spread. It protects the future generation as it eliminates several diseases such as smallpox, polio, and German Rubella from occurring.

Does delaying or avoiding vaccination pose a threat?

Many parents either delay or avoid vaccination for reasons such as ‘the baby cries in pain’ or ‘my child is too young to get too many vaccines’ and so on. What these parents fail to understand is that the child’s immune system is left vulnerable to diseases without vaccinations. What happens if you avoid or delay getting a vaccination for your child?

The consequences of delaying or avoiding vaccinations include the following.

- In case of a disease outbreak, your child’s immune system puts him or her under a great risk. The possibility of getting infected with the disease is very high.

- Diseases such as mumps and measles are coming back, and if parents think that there is no need to vaccinate the child as the disease does not affect twice, think again! If the child is not vaccinated, he or she will suffer immense pain for several days instead of a pin's prick that pains an hour or two. As a parent, you could have prevented it!

- Many diseases have started to reemerge as parents think that it is on to delay vaccinations.

- A child that is not vaccinated will need a distinctive treatment in case of an emergency. If you fail to inform the doctors that the child is not vaccinated, the treatment can cause more problems.

- Children with compromised immune systems cannot be vaccinated. If you decide not to vaccinate or delay vaccinating your child, you put other children at risk in case your child develops an illness.

- If it weren’t for vaccinations, many parents would have lost their children, or the children would suffer severe illness in their childhood that could affect their adult life.

There are several outbreaks of diseases that cause pain and suffering. Vaccinations can prevent most of the diseases that otherwise pose a threat to life. A small prick, though painful, is much better than a lifetime of suffering. Physicians at Phoenix Family Medical Clinic suggest timely vaccination to prevent these diseases from ruining your life as well as the lives of others.

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