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• The measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine is generally given only once when the baby is between 12 months and 12 years old. If a booster doze is needed, At least 3 months must pass between the first and second doses of this vaccine.
• Your baby must not receive a booster vaccine if he or she had a life threatening allergic reaction after the first shot. Your baby can still receive a vaccine if he or she has a minor cool. In the case of a more severe diseases with a fever or any type of infection, wait before the baby gets better till receiving this vaccine.
• Hold track of any and all side effects your baby has after receiving this vaccine. If the baby ever needs to receive a booster doze, you will need to speak the doctor if the previous shots caused any side effects.
• Becoming infected with measles, mumps, rubella, or varicella is many more dangerous to your child's health than receiving this vaccine. However, like any medication, this vaccine can reason side effects but the risk of serious side effects is extremely low.
• Do not give your baby salicylates such as aspirin, Disalcid, Doan's Pills, Dolobid, Salflex, Tricosal, and others for at least 6 weeks after receiving this vaccine. A serious condition called Reye's Syndrome has been reported in patients with chickenpox who take aspirin or salicylates.
• Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella are serious illness caused by viruses. They are spread from face to face through the air.
• Measles virus can reason minor symptoms such as skin rash, cough, runny nose, eye irritation, or mild fever. It can also reason more serious symptoms such as ear infection, pneumonia, seizures, permanent brain hurt, or death.
• Mumps virus causes fever, headache, and swollen glands, but more serious symptoms include hearing loss, and painful swelling of the testicles or ovaries. Mumps can reason breathing problems or meningitis, and these infections can be fatal.
• Rubella virus (also called German Measles) causes skin rash, mild fever, and joint pain. Becoming infected with rubella during pregnancy can result in a miscarriage or serious birth defects.
• Varicella (commonly known as chickenpox) is a general childhood malady that causes fever, skin rash, and a breakout of fluid-filled blisters on the skin. Most people who receive this vaccine will not get chickenpox, or will get only a mild case and will recover faster. Chickenpox is generally mild, but it can be serious or even fatal in young infants and in adults. It can lead to severe skin infection, breathing problems, brain hurt, or death. A face who has had chickenpox can develop herpes zoster (also called shingles) later in life, which causes severe nerve pain, and hearing or vision problems, which may recent for months or years.
• Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella are spread from face to person.
• The measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine is used to help prevent these illness in children. This vaccine works by exposing your baby to a little doze of the virus or a protein from the virus, which causes the body to develop immunity to the malady. This vaccine will not treat an active infection that has already developed in the body.
• Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine is for use in children between the ages of 12 months and 12 years old.
• Like any vaccine, the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine may not provide protection from malady in each person.
• Your baby must not receive this vaccine if he or she is allergic to eggs, gelatin, or neomycin (Mycifradin, Neo-Fradin, Neo-Tab), or if the baby has ever had a life-threatening allergic reaction to any vaccine containing measles, mumps, rubella, or varicella.
• Your baby must also not receive this vaccine if he or she has:
· active tuberculosis infection;
· a cancer such as leukemia or lymphoma;
· a history of Guillain-Barré syndrome;
· a chronic malady such as asthma or another breathing mess, diabetes, kidney malady, or a blood cell mess such as anemia;
· severe immune suppression caused by malady (such as cancer, HIV, or AIDS), or by receiving determined medicines such as steroids, chemotherapy or radiation;
· if the baby has recently taken aspirin or another similar medicines such as Disalcid, Doan's Pills, Dolobid, Salflex, Tricosal, and others;
· if the baby has recently received a stem cell transplant;
· if somebody in the child's household has a weak immune system; or
· if the baby is pregnant.
• If your baby has any of these another conditions, this vaccine may need to be postponed or not given at all:
· thrombocytopenia purpura (easy bruising or bleeding);
· a history of seizures;
· a neurologic mess or malady affecting the brain (or if this was a reaction to a previous vaccine);
· a weak immune system caused by malady, bone marrow transplant, or by using determined medicines or receiving cancer treatments;
· if the baby has received an immune globulin or another blood product within the past year; or
· if the baby has received a mumps-and-rubella-mmr-vaccine-22822.htm'>measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine within the past 28 days (4 weeks).
• Your baby can still receive a vaccine if he or she has a minor cool. In the case of a more severe diseases with a fever or any type of infection, wait before the baby gets better till receiving this vaccine.
• Pregnant women must wait to get this vaccine before after they have given birth. Women must not get pregnant for 3 months after getting the vaccine.
• A woman must not receive this vaccine without telling the doctor if she is breast-feeding a baby.
• This vaccine is given as an injection under the skin. You will receive this injection in a doctor's office or clinic setting.
• The measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine is generally given only once when the baby is between 12 months and 12 years old. If a booster doze is needed, At least 3 months must pass between the first and second doses of this vaccine.
• Your child's booster schedule may be various from these guidelines. Follow your doctor's instructions or the schedule recommended by your local health department.
• Your doctor may recommend treating fever and pain with an aspirin free pain reliever such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil, and others) when the shot is given and for the following 24 hours. Follow the label directions or your doctor's instructions about how many of this medication to give your child.
• It is especially significant to prevent fever from occurring in a baby who has a seizure mess such as epilepsy.
• This vaccine can reason false results on a skin test for tuberculosis for up to 6 weeks. Speak any doctor who treats you if you have received this vaccine within the past 4 to 6 weeks.
• Since this vaccine is generally given only once, you are not likely to miss a doze. Contact your doctor if you do not receive all recommended doses.
• An overdose of this vaccine is unlikely to occur.
• Your baby must not receive other "live" vaccine for at least 4 weeks after receiving the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine. The another live vaccine may not work as well during this time, and may not fully protect your baby from malady. Live vaccines include measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), oral polio, rotavirus, smallpox, typhoid, yellow fever, varicella (chickenpox), H1N1 influenza, and nasal flu vaccine.
• Do not give your baby salicylates such as aspirin, Disalcid, Doan's Pills, Dolobid, Salflex, Tricosal, and others for at least 6 weeks after receiving this vaccine. A serious condition called Reye's Syndrome has been reported in patients with chickenpox who take aspirin or salicylates.
• Your baby must not receive a booster vaccine if he or she had a life-threatening allergic reaction after the first shot.
• Hold track of any and all side effects your baby has after receiving this vaccine. If the baby ever needs to receive a booster doze, you will need to speak the doctor if the previous shots caused any side effects.
• Becoming infected with measles, mumps, rubella, or varicella is many more dangerous to your child's health than receiving this vaccine. However, like any medication, this vaccine can reason side effects but the risk of serious side effects is extremely low.
• Get abnormal medical help if your baby has any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your person, lips, tongue, or throat.
• Call your doctor at once if your baby has any of these serious side effects:
· problems with hearing or vision;
· extreme drowsiness, fainting;
· fussiness, irritability, crying for an hour or longer;
· light bruising or bleeding, unusual weakness;
· seizure (black-out or convulsions); or
· tall fever (within a little hours or a little days after the vaccine).
• Smaller serious side effects include:
· redness, pain, swelling, or a lump where the shot was given;
· headache, dizziness;
· low fever, joint or muscle pain; or
· nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.
• This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may message vaccine side effects to the US Department of Health and Human Services at 1-800-822-7967.
• Till receiving this vaccine, speak the doctor about all another vaccines your baby has recently received.
• Also speak the doctor if your baby has recently received drugs or treatments that can weaken the immune system, including:
· an oral, nasal, inhaled, or injectable steroid medicine;
· medications to treat psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, or another autoimmune disorders, such as azathioprine (Imuran), etanercept (Enbrel), leflunomide (Arava), and others; or
· medicines to treat or prevent organ transplant rejection, such as basiliximab (Simulect), cyclosporine (Sandimmune, Neoral, Gengraf), muromonab-CD3 (Orthoclone), mycophenolate mofetil (CellCept), sirolimus (Rapamune), or tacrolimus (Prograf).
• If your baby is receiving any of these medications, he or she may not be able to receive the vaccine, or may need to wait before the another treatments are finished.
• This list is not complete and another drugs may interact with this vaccine. Speak your doctor about all medications your baby receives. This includes prescription, over the counter, vitamin, and herbal commodity. Do not start a new medicine without telling your doctor.
• Your doctor or pharmacist can provide more information about this vaccine. Additional information is accessible from your local health department or the Centers for Malady Control and Prevention.
Remember, hold this and all another medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medicine only for the indication prescribed.
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