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Pediatric Collections: Seasonal Flu
Don’t let flu sideline your family. Take the first opportunity to get everyone immunized. Every parent has been there. You received email reminders about a flu shot clinic, but didn’t get a chance to make an appointment. Now your child has come down with a fever over 101 degrees Fahrenheit, headache, chills, sore throat and dry cough. Off to the pediatrician you go. All children over age 6 months should be immunized against influenza every year. The flu shot reduces the chance that your child will have to visit the doctor’s office for treatment by 50% to 75%. The average case of flu can last a week or more. Children under age 5 years and those with chronic health conditions are at greater risk of problems from the flu.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that all children ages 6 months to 8 years receive two doses of influenza vaccine their first season, given four weeks apart. Thereafter, only one shot a year is needed. Children ages 9 years and older should receive one dose. It is safe for children with egg allergy to receive the influenza shot, according to the AAP.
From the American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Report
Mary Anne Jackson, MD, FAAP; Gordon E. Schutze, MD, FAAP; COMMITTEE ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2016-2706
From the American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Report
H. Dele Davies, MD; Carrie L. Byington, MD; COMMITTEE ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2016-1891
Article
Aline B. Maddux, MD, MSCS; Laura Berbert, MS; Cameron C. Young, BS; Leora R. Feldstein, PhD; Laura D. Zambrano, PhD; Suden Kucukak, MD; Margaret M. Newhams, MPH; Kristen Miller, MS; Madyson M. FitzGerald, BS; Jie He, MS; Natasha B. Halasa, MD; Natalie Z. Cvijanovich, MD; Laura L. Loftis, MD; Tracie C. Walker, MD; Stephanie P. Schwartz, MD; Shira J. Gertz, MD; Keiko M. Tarquinio, MD; Julie C. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD; Michele Kong, MD; Jennifer E. Schuster, MD; Elizabeth H. Mack, MD; Charlotte V. Hobbs, MD; Courtney M. Rowan, MD, MScr; Mary A. Staat, MD; Matt S. Zinter, MD; Katherine Irby, MD; Hillary Crandall, MD, PhD; Heidi Flori, MD; Melissa L. Cullimore, MD; Ryan A. Nofziger, MD; Steven L. Shein, MD; Mary Glas Gaspers, MD; Janet R. Hume, MD, PhD; Emily R. Levy, MD; Sabrina R. Chen, BA; Manish M. Patel, MD; Mark W. Tenforde, MD, PhD; Edie Weller, PhD; Angela P. Campbell, MD, MPH; Adrienne G. Randolph, MD; for the Overcoming COVID-19 Investigators
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-057798
Prepublication Release
Maximilian Stich, MD; Louise Benning, MD; Claudius Speer, MD; Sven F. Garbade, PhD; Marie Bartenschlager; Heeyoung Kim, PhD; Florian Gleich, MSc; Kathrin Jeltsch, PhD; Bettina Haase, MSc; Aleš Janda, MD; Hanna Renk, MD; Roland Elling, MD; Paul Schnitzler, PhD; Tim Waterboer, PhD; Georg Friedrich Hoffmann, MD; Hans-Georg Kräusslich, MD; Barbara Müller, PhD; Ralf Bartenschlager, PhD; Burkhard Tönshoff, MD
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-057151
Review Article
Shefaly Shorey, PhD; Esperanza D. Ng, BPsySc (Hons); Evelyn C. Law, MD; John C.M. Wong, MBBS, MMed (Psych); Kah Yin Loke, MBBS, MMed (Paeds); Wilson W.S. Tam, PhD
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-056540
Prepublication Release
James W. Antoon, MD, PhD, MPH; Matt Hall, PhD; Leigh M. Howard, MD, MPH; Alison Herndon, MD, MPH; Katherine L. Freundlich, MD; Carlos G. Grijalva, MD, MPH; Derek J. Williams, MD, MPH
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-058167
Commentary
Stephen G. Flynn, MD, FAAP; Mary Lyn Stein, MD, FAAP; John E. Fiadjoe, MD
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-057567
Review Article
Nicole K. Yamada, MD, MS; Christopher JD McKinlay, PhD, MBChB; Bin Huey Quek, M. Med, MRCP; Georg M. Schmölzer, MD, PhD; Myra H. Wyckoff, MD; Helen G. Liley, MB, ChB, FRACP; Yacov Rabi, MD; Gary M. Weiner, MD
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-056568
State-of-the-Art Review
Kourosh Sabri, MB ChB, FRCOphth, FRCSC; Anna L Ells, MD, FRCSC; Elizabeth Y. Lee, MD; Sourabh Dutta, MD, PhD; Anand Vineker, MD, FRCS, PhD
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2021-053924
Case Report
Scott M. Sutherland, MD; Alexis S. Davis, MD; Diana Powell, RN; Jennifer Tanaka, RN; Mayna Woo, RN; Shellie Josephs, MD; Cynthia J. Wong, MD
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-056570
Article
Debra K. Katzman, MD; Tim Guimond, MD, PhD; Wendy Spettigue, MD; Holly Agostino, MD; Jennifer Couturier, MD, MSc; Mark L. Norris, MD
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-057494
Prepublication Release
Rayzel Shulman, MD, PhD; Meranda Nakhla, MD, MSc; Christina Diong, MSc; Therese A. Stukel, PhD; Astrid Guttmann, MDCM, MSc
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-058349
Prepublication Release
Emanuele Amodio, MD, PhD; Dario Genovese, MD; Luca Mazzeo, MD; Luca Martino, MD; Vincenzo Restivo, MD, PhD; Giuseppe Vella, MD; Giuseppe Calamusa, MD; Francesco Vitale, MD
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-057394
Research Article
Ashley G. Sutton, MD; Hunter G. Smith, MD, MPH; Melanie Edwards Dawes, RN, MBA, MHA, NE-BC; Megan O’Connor, DNP, RN, NE-BC; Andrea A. Hayes, MD; John P. Downs, MD, MBA; Michael J. Steiner, MD, MPH
Doi:
10.1542/hpeds.2021-006390
Research Article
Jori F. Bogetz, MD; Anna Revette, PhD; Lindsay Partin, BS; Danielle D. DeCourcey, MD, MPH
Doi:
10.1542/hpeds.2022-006596
Commentary
Daniel J. Shapiro, MD; Ann Chen Wu, MD, MPH
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-057926
Article
Anne Kotaniemi-Syrjänen, MD; Timo Klemola, MD; Petri Koponen, MD; Outi Jauhola, MD; Henrikka Aito, MD; Kristiina Malmström, MD; L. Pekka Malmberg, MD; Eero Rahiala, MD; Seppo Sarna, PhD; Anna S. Pelkonen, MD; Mika J. Mäkelä, MD
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2021-055860
Commentary
Kathleen E. Hannan, MD, MSCS; Sunah S. Hwang, MD, MPH, PhD; Stephanie L. Bourque, MD, MSCS
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2022-058043
Article
Hilary K. Brown, PhD; Simon Chen, MPH; Astrid Guttmann, MDCM, MSc, FRCPC; Susan M. Havercamp, PhD; Susan L. Parish, PhD; Joel G. Ray, MD, MSc, FRCPC; Simone N. Vigod, MD, MSc, FRCPC; Lesley A. Tarasoff, PhD; Yona Lunsky, PhD, C.Psych
Doi:
10.1542/peds.2021-055318
Commentary
Vanessa N. Madrigal, MD, MSCE, HEC-C; Kara Curry, MA, RN
Doi:
10.1542/hpeds.2022-006734
