Quadrivalent vaccine (DTaP/IPV)
Before starting school, your child receives the fifth dose of the vaccine (second revaccination) against: diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (DTaP) and polio (IPV) as a combined tetravalent vaccine, with the aim of strengthening and prolonging the protection of your child against these infectious diseases.
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About the vaccine
- The vaccine contains the following antigens: tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, acellular pertussis (parts of the whooping cough bacterium) and inactivated poliomyelitis (three types of virus). Excipients are also present in very small doses: hydrated aluminum hydroxide as adsorbent, medium 199 Hanks, medium containing amino acids, minerals and vitamins used as a growth medium and trace amounts of production process residues: glutaraldehyde, neomycin, streptomycin or polymyxin b, formaldehyde, ethanol.
- In accordance with the applicable immunization schedule (from 2021), your child receives this vaccine as a revaccination before starting school, i.e. in the 6th/7th year of life.
- The vaccine is administered by injection into the deltoid muscle (upper part of the upper arm). It can be given at the same time as other vaccines, such as the MMR vaccine, but in a different injection site.
- If your child has not been vaccinated regularly, contact your pediatrician to receive the missing dose of the vaccine.
- Your child must not get the vaccine if he/she:
- had a strong allergic reaction to a previous dose of the vaccine or is allergic to some of the vaccine components
- if he/she suffers from an evolutionary disease of the central nervous system (uncontrolled epilepsy, encephalopathy)
- If your child has an acute febrile illness, the vaccination should be postponed until recovery. Common cold is not a reason to delay vaccination.
