Vaccination also know an immunization is the first step in child’s protection. With vaccination a child can be protected from serious illness like whooping cough, measles, mumps, hib meningitis, meningococcal disease, pneumococcal, hepatitis and polio. As a responsible parents, you want your child to be protected from any serious illness. For that matter, vaccinations are crucial to keep your child safe from life threatening diseases.
What is Vaccine?
As per WHO, a vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease causing microorganism and is often made from weekend or killed form of microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body’s immune system to recognize the agent as foreign, destroy it and remember it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganism that it later encounters.
Vaccination Chart for Indian Babies
| Age (completed weeks/months/years) | Vaccines | Doses | Content Tag |
| Birth | Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) | 1 | BCG |
| Oral polio vaccine (OPV 0) | 1 | OPV | |
| Hepatitis B (Hep – B1) | 1 | Hep -B |
| 6 weeks | Diptheria, Tetanus and Pertussis vaccine (DTwP 1) | 1 | DTP |
| Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV 1) | 1 | IPV | |
| Hepatitis B (Hep – B2) | 1 | Hep -B | |
| Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib 1) | 1 | Hib | |
| Rotavirus 1 | 1 | Rotavirus | |
| Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV 1) | 1 | PCV |
| 10 weeks | Diptheria, Tetanus and Pertussis vaccine (DTwP 2) | 1 | DTP |
| Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV 2) | 1 | IPV | |
| Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib 2) | 1 | Hib | |
| Rotavirus 2 | 1 | Rotavirus | |
| Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV 2) | 1 | PCV |
| 14 weeks | Diptheria, Tetanus and Pertussis vaccine (DTwP 3) | 1 | DTP |
| Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV 3) | 1 | IPV | |
| Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib 3) | 1 | Hib | |
| Rotavirus 3 | 1 | Rotavirus | |
| Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV 3) | 1 | PCV |
| 6 months | Oral polio vaccine (OPV 1) | 1 | OPV |
| Hepatitis B (Hep – B3) | 1 | Hep -B |
| 9 months | Oral polio vaccine (OPV 2) | 1 | OPV |
| Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR – 1) | 1 | MMR |
| 9 – 12 months | Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine | 1 | Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine |
| 12 months | Hepatitis A (Hep – A1) | 1 | Hep -A |
| 15 months | Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR 2) | 1 | MMR |
| Varicella 1 | 1 | Varicella | |
| PCV booster | 1 | PCV |
| 16 to 18 months | Diphtheria, Perussis, and Tetanus (DTwP B1/DTaP B1) | 1 | DTP |
| Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV B1) | 1 | IPV | |
| Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib B1) | 1 | Hib |
| 18 months | Hepatitis A (Hep – A2) | 1 | Hep -A |
| 2 years | Booster of Typhoid | 1 | Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine |
| Conjugate Vaccine |
| 4 to 6 years | Diphtheria, Perussis, and Tetanus (DTwP B2/DTaP B2) | 1 | DTP |
| Oral polio vaccine (OPV 3) | 1 | OPV | |
| Varicella 2 | 1 | Varicella | |
| Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR 3) | 1 | MMR |
| 10 to 12 years | Tdap/Td | 1 | Tdap |
| Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) | 1 | HPV |
Note: This is only a general guideline adapted from IAP Immunization Timetable 2016. Do as your pediatrician suggests.