After getting birth, our body will not be in a developed state completely and their brain will be in an initial phase, bones will be very delicate, small body with very sensitive skin etc. and our body won’t have the resistance capability to defend the diseases. So at this stage our body is more vulnerable to diseases and we should care child health care at great deal. To ensure that child body becomes resistant to disease, they should be given some vaccinations that make them defensible to diseases. The diseases that occur in childhood are diphtheria, measles, mumps, polio, rubella, tetanus, whooping cough etc.

In order to control all these diseases the child should be given vaccinations at correct age and at correct time and also in correct doses. For Diphtheria which effects throat, an injection is given which also contains the tetanus, whooping cough and polio vaccines. This should be given between 13 to 18 years. For measles, which is the common diseases that occur to every child, the injection known as MMR which also contains the mumps and rubella vaccines should be given around 13 months after the birth. For polio, which attacks the nervous system, spinal cord and causes paralysis, polio vaccines is given which includes DTaP/IPV/Hib injection and this also contains the vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, Hib and whooping cough and this should be given in the age of 12 to 16 weeks for babies and 13 to 18 years of age as preschool booster.

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