Keeping up with your child's immunizations is key to making sure they are protected from potentially dangerous diseases and related complications. From birth, until they are young adults they will need a series of vaccines delivered at different stages of their life, so it's understandable how it can seem overwhelming to keep track of it all. This is where your child's doctor can help, not only with keeping track and delivering these immunizations but in helping maintain your child's overall health, so reach out to Dr. Devang Gandhi of Pediatric Care Clinic in Milwaukee, WI.
The Importance of Vaccines
The body's immune system is tasked with defending it against pathogens and other invaders that can threaten it. It is a capable system but it can't always recognize a pathogen as a threat or mount a rapid enough response against it, which can result in pathogens overwhelming the immune system. This is where vaccines come, by introducing a dead or weakened version of the pathogen that causes the disease they help to prepare the immune system to recognize the real thing if it is ever encountered.
Vaccines do more than protect only your children, thanks to their widespread use many of these once devastating diseases are nowadays mostly under control, almost eradicated in some cases.
Immunizations in Milwaukee, WI
You can turn to the CDC website for a complete list of vaccination schedules for children. These charts are an excellent resource that you can use to reference when and how many of the different types of vaccines your child needs. While they are important information to have it may be difficult to both manage and act on them. So let your child's pediatrician help you take care of it all, they have access to the same information and have years of experience caring for children and providing immunizations, schedule a visit with Dr. Gandhi of Pediatric Care Clinic in Milwaukee, WI, by dialing (414) 442-6970.