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| The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) now recommend routine rotavirus vaccination for all eligible infants. According to the ACIP and AAP, infants in the United States should routinely receive a 3-dose series of rotavirus vaccine orally at 2, 4, and 6 months of age. |
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Click here to read the recommendation from the ACIP.
Click here to read the recommendation from the AAP. |
| The CDC has also included RotaTeq in its Vaccines for Children program. Click here for more information. |
| Talk to your health care professional about how you can help protect your baby from rotavirus with RotaTeq. |
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| Important Safety Information |
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| RotaTeq may not fully protect all children who get the vaccine. |
| RotaTeq should not be given to infants who are allergic to any part of the vaccine. |
| Your child should not get RotaTeq if he or she has Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID). |
| The most common side effects reported after taking RotaTeq were diarrhea, vomiting, fever, runny nose, sore throat, wheezing or coughing, and ear infection. You can ask your health care professional for a more complete list of side effects. |
| Other reported side effects include: hives; Kawasaki disease (a serious condition that can affect the heart, symptoms may include fever, rash, red eyes, red mouth, swollen glands, swollen hands and feet, and if untreated, can be life threatening). |
| Call your child's doctor or go to the emergency department right away if, following any dose of RotaTeq, your child has vomiting, diarrhea, severe stomach pain, blood in their stool or change in bowel movements. These may be signs of a serious and life-threatening problem called intussusception. Intussusception can happen even when no vaccine has been given and the cause is usually unknown. Contact your doctor or go to the emergency department right away if your child has any symptoms of intussusception, even if it has been several weeks since the last vaccine dose. |
| There are some important things your doctor needs to know about your baby. Tell your doctor if your baby is sick with fever, diarrhea, or vomiting, or is not growing or gaining weight as expected. Tell your doctor if your baby or someone in regular close contact with your baby has a weakened immune system from a disease (like cancer, HIV/AIDS, or a blood disorder) or from medicine (such as steroids). Also tell your doctor if your baby has received a blood transfusion or blood products recently or if he or she was born with gastrointestinal problems, had a blockage, or had abdominal surgery. |
| You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit
www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088. |
| Please read the Patient
Product Information and discuss it with your doctor or health care professional. Also available is the physician Prescribing Information. |
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This site is intended only for residents of the United States, its territories, and Puerto Rico.
RotaTeq is a registered trademark of Merck & Co., Inc.
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