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Unfortunately, vaccines don’t always fall into the “one and done” category. In many cases, a series of vaccines, given on a specific schedule, are necessary to provide you or your children with protection against diseases. While no one wants to get an injection more than once, skipping doses or spreading them out can decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine and increase your chance of becoming ill.

Vaccine schedules are particularly important for infants and children because the diseases that the vaccines prevent are especially deadly for them. While the number of vaccines given to babies today has increased, worrying some parents, science has shown that the total number of vaccines given today isn’t harmful. Spreading out vaccines on a delayed schedule can be harmful rather than helpful to infants, increasing their risk of becoming sick. To help you make the best decisions about vaccinations, Chapter 11 discusses the myths that surround vaccination and vaccine schedules, especially for young children.

Trying to keep track of vaccination schedules can be complicated. We make it easier by describing which vaccines are required for infants and children at which ages in Chapter 8. We include the same information for adults in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 explains when you or your child should not get vaccinated, due to certain health conditions. Thankfully, these conditions are rare.