As a new report from the Center for Disease Control found more parents are getting their children vaccinated, here is what parents should know about vaccines and exams while the new school year approaches.
Needed vaccines:
- Polio: Three to four doses
- DTP: Three to five doses
- Booster shot: One dose after age 7
- MMR: One to two doses
- Hepatitis B: Three doses after age 4
- Varicella (chickenpox): One dose
- HPV: Before sexually active, no later than 14
- Meningitis: College age
Tuberculosis: Testing sometimes necessary
Needed exams:
- First general exam: 18 months 90 days after entering school
- Vision, hearing and dental exams
- Developmental exams and cholesterol testing
- Sugar test
- Blood and urine test
- Blood pressure test
