Guide helps doctors manage vaccine allergies

Updated Wednesday, September 3, 2008 0:00 am TWN, Reuters

Guide helps doctors manage vaccine allergies

CHICAGO -- With careful monitoring, even children who have had allergic reactions to a vaccine can still be vaccinated, a U.S. team of experts said on Tuesday.

The team developed a step-by-step guide to help pediatricians quickly identify children with allergic reactions to vaccines and safely immunize them.

“We cannot reiterate enough that the vaccines used today are extremely safe, but in a handful of children certain vaccine ingredients can trigger serious allergic reactions,” said Dr. Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, whose research appears in the journal Pediatrics.

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