A 47-year-old member asked:
does every child get fever after been given vaccine?
2 doctor answers • 2 doctors weighed in
Dr. Mark Diamond answered
Pediatrics 46 years experience
Possible: Fever is always a possible side effect of vaccines, but not often and generally annoying, but harmless.
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Dr. James Ferguson answered
Pediatrics 46 years experience
No: Before the mid 90's when we had switched to the acellular pertussis vaccine we expected fever with the older whole cell preparation. Now it is seen occasionally, more often with the pneumococcal vaccine than several of the others but not expected.
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