How many vaccinations for HFMD?

Update Date: 2025-10-08 Source: Network

summary

Hand foot mouth is a common infectious disease in children under 5 years old, which is caused by a variety of enteroviruses, among which EV71 is the most important. The main clinical manifestations were fever and herpes in hand, foot and mouth. A small number of children with serious illness, meningitis and encephalitis and other serious complications, a very small number of children with critical illness, leaving sequelae or death. At present, there is no effective treatment. Therefore, prevention is particularly important. The hand foot mouth vaccine (EV71) developed in China was approved in December 2015. How do parents choose to vaccinate their children? Let's talk about it.

How many vaccinations for HFMD?

Children from 6 months to 5 years old can choose vaccination: the earlier the vaccination, the better, so as to provide timely protection. Children over 5 years old are no longer recommended because the incidence rate of children and adults over 5 is low.

2 injections are needed: 2 injections within 1 year old are encouraged, with an interval of 1 month; Vaccination units with vaccination qualification shall be selected for vaccination; At present, hand foot mouth vaccine (EV71) is not recommended to be inoculated with other vaccines at the same time: the interval between vaccination and other vaccines should be more than 2 weeks

Using the same enterprise vaccine for 2 injections: it is not recommended to use different enterprise vaccines for 2 injections; At present, the safety of the vaccine is good in clinical trials: fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, crying, swelling, induration and other reactions may occur after vaccination, but most of them are transient, generally no more than 3 days, and can be relieved by themselves.

matters needing attention

Hand foot and mouth vaccine (EV71) can only prevent hand foot and mouth disease caused by EV71 virus infection, but can not prevent hand foot and mouth disease caused by other enterovirus infection. As with all vaccines, the protective effect of hand foot mouth vaccine (EV71) is not 100%, which can not guarantee that EV71 virus will not infect hand foot mouth disease.