The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine is safe. The end. Phew, that was easy! Of course I’m only kidding. That’s definitely not the end, not even close. There’s so much information out there about the MMR vaccine—good and bad, informative, and plenty of opinions—that it’s hard to know what to believe. I’m not going […]
Vaccinating your child is the one way that you can shield them from getting some seriously harmful diseases. But did you know that when you vaccinate your child you are also helping to keep other children safe from harmful diseases? You are! And you are especially helping prevent disease in those children who are too […]
I once heard someone say that when you sneeze, droplets of saliva fly through the air and can land five feet away.Five feet!? Yuck! I’m not sure EXACTLY how far those droplets are carried through the air, but what I am sure of is that within those droplets are potentially millions of viral particles and thousands of bacterial cells. One […]
My one year old loves to stick everything she can into her mouth, including her fingers, toys, things that aren’t toys, the shopping cart handle–what I’m eluding to here is that children aren’t always the most clean creatures. However, they are cute, and we as parents want to protect them. It’s because of vaccines that […]