More and more pediatricians consider it appropriate to apply it over 5 years . Since last winter the American Pediatric Society broadened its criteria regarding the use of influenza in children, the recommendation of this vaccine has become more encompassing than ever. As previously indicated it almost exclusively to those who had six months to five years or some underlying disease, today more and more pediatricians in our country should consider its application also in healthy children up to 18 years of age.
La Sociedad Argentina de Pediatrics and Chair of Pediatrics at the University of La Plata, among other references that support this trend, argue that the new recommendations are fully justified in demonstrating vaccine effectiveness, new modes of life and current epidemiological situation. (more…)
