questions with verified answers
Hepatitis B - correct answer ✔✔3x: Birth, 1-2 months, 6 months
Side Effects: Redness at site, low grade temp
Considerations: If mom is HBsAG+ give HBIG within 12 hours in addition to vaccine
C/I: allergy to baker's yeast
Rotavirus - correct answer ✔✔*Live attenuated*
2x: 2 months, 4 months
C/I: hx intussusceptions, immunosuppressed
Pneumococcal - correct answer ✔✔4x: 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and 12-15 months
Side effects: mild local reactions
HIB - correct answer ✔✔3x: 2 months, 4 months, 12-15 months
Side effects: mild local reaction, low grade fever
Considerations: only given until child turns age 6
DTaP - correct answer ✔✔6x: 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 15-18 months, 4-6 years, 11-12
years, booster every 10 years
Side effects: local reaction at site, fever and irritability
C/I: Unconsolable crying up to 3 hours, hx of seizures 3 days after last vaccine, or
encephalopathy 7 days after