how many vaxes are recommended today vs. 50 years ago?

[caedmyn]

I'm looking for specifics on how the number of doses and number of vaccines has increased. I know somebody here posted a link to their website/blog that listed the number of doses/vaxes their grandmother, mother, etc received. I've tried to search but I can't find anything. Anyone know where I can find that?

[DevaMajka]

This has links to the schedules back to 83. http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/...s.htm#Book%203

I went here when I was searching the same thing http://www.vaccineinformation.org/
It doesn't give you the schedule, but its pretty easy to find when each vax was introduced or licensed or widely used.

Other than that, I don't think I've seen anything more specific on what you're wanting.

[Jen123]

TODAY'S SCHEDULE
Birth Hep B

2month
DTaP , Polio , Hib , Prevnar , RotaTeq , hep B

4month
DTaP , polio , hib , prevnar , Rotateq

6month
DTaP , hib , prevnar , Rotateq

12month
MMR , Chickenpox , Hep A

18month
Hib , polio , hep B , Prevnar , DTaP , Hep A

4-6 years
MMR , DTaP , Polio

11-12years
Tetanus/Diptheria "booster" , Hib








Note: If the American Academy of Pediatrics Vaccination Schedule is adhered to, thirty (30) of the recommended vaccines are administered before the age of two. Many of the vaccines are typically administered as "vaccine cocktails", meaning combined or together with other vaccines.

Seven vaccines injected into a 13 lb. two-month old infant are equivalent to 70 doses in a 130 lb. adult.



Off to look for an old schedule:

So far I've found this:

Fifty years ago, when the immunization schedule contained only four vaccines (for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and smallpox),

from here : http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller15.html

[Jen123]

January 1995

Birth
Hep B

2months
Hep B , DTP , Hib ,OPV

4month
DTP , Hib , OPV

6month
Hep B , DTP , Hib , OPV

12 month
MMR , Hib , DTP ( or DTaP at 15month)

4-6years
DTP (or DTaP ) , OPV , MMR

11-12 years
Td

[sunshinestarr]

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[tayndrewsmama]

: My parents were not vaccinated, but they are both a few years over 50.

[wednesday]

I was born in 1973 and received three doses of DPT, 3 doses of oral polio vaccine, 1 dose of MMR as a baby and a second dose of MMR as a teenager. Also had to get a tetanus booster to enroll in college fulltime at age 25.

[Jen123]

I found my shot records. I was born in the fall of 1970.

1.5 months

DPT #1
Polio #1

3 months
DPT #2
Polio #2

6months
DTP #3
Polio #3

9 months
TB Tine test

12 months
Rubeola Vaccine (Hard Measles) CBC , UA

13 months
Rubella Vaccine (German Measles)

15month
required regionally , not across the board. Depended on where you lived. It was not mandatory for me.

Smallpox

18months
DPT #4
Polio #4


5 years (note the age gap between the last shot and this one)
DPT #5
Polio #5

10years
Mumps if no natural disease by now.

BOOSTERS
Smallpox if beginning school : defer to regional /local

DPT every six years (Over six gets DT)

Additional Vaccines
Influenza....not to be used routinely and only on doctor's orders

PRECAUTIONS
Smallpox is not to be given:
1) If the child has , or ever had eczema.
2) If the child to be vaccinated has a sibling who has , or has ever had Eczema
3) Not to be given to a parent of a child who has or has had eczema.
(basically stay far away from it if you have or know somone who has eczema)

Allergic Reactions:
1)Mumps: Vaccines are not to given if there is an allergy to eggs.
2) If there has been a previous allergic reaction to an Immunization check with doctor before giving.

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copied from the form the military hospital gave my mother.

We were military and an additional vaccine of smallpox and cholera was also required for going over seas. My mom threw a fit at the smallpox (yea mom) and allowed me to have the cholera at age 7. Possibly gammaglobulin for hepatitis was also available , but my records don't show it...Dad just remembers it.

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I spoke with a dear friend and he said he remembers recieving DTP? and Polio in school back in the late 40's. ( I say DTP? because he's not sure he got it. But for sure remembers the polio .)

[Jen123]

requested bump

[wtnow]

I was born in 1952 and I did not get many.I would have to ask my mom to be exact,but I think I only got small pox and polio when I was an older child and nothing as a baby.They did not have polio vax when I was born and I know healthy middle class kids and adults who got it before they had a vax.

I had whooping cough as a baby ( which was unusual even then to some extent) and like everyone of my age had most of the common infections like both measles,chickenpox,mumps etc.

[suschi]

http://www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/div...c.jsp?id=75700

In the early 1950s, there were four vaccines: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and smallpox. Because three of these vaccines were combined into a single shot (DTP), children received five shots by the time they were 2 years old and not more than one shot at a single visit.

By the mid-1980s, there were seven vaccines: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella and polio. Because six of these vaccines were combined into two shots (DTP and MMR), and one, the polio vaccine, was given by mouth, children still received five shots by the time they were 2 years old and not more than one shot at a single visit.

(see link above for rest of article, but even this site has been updated since I first saved the link)

here's the orginal clip, vs what they have now...

Original:

11-12 years
Tetanus, diphtheria (this vaccine should be given every 10 years)

UPDATED:

11-12 years
Tdap (this vaccine should be given every 10 years)
Meningococcus

Influenza vaccine is given in two doses spaced one month apart and is recommended each year between September and December each year.

Another piece in the original that has changed,

"And more vaccines are to come. By 2005, it is likely that children will also be recommended to receive a meningococcal vaccine, the influenza vaccine and the hepatitis A vaccine, all given as shots."

The site has updated the info since I saved the original page.

Wow. That 100 in 1 combo shot is closer than I thought!