Study: Tdap and flu vaccines safe during pregnancy
by Claudia Boyd-Barrett posted in Pregnancy
You can get the Tdap and flu vaccines while pregnant and it won't harm your baby, an extensive new study confirms.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already recommends getting the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis or whooping cough) and flu vaccines during pregnancy. The vaccines create antibodies that you then pass on to your baby. This helps protect your baby from flu and whooping cough after he's born and before he is older enough to get the vaccines himself.
Both flu and whooping cough can be very dangerous for infants.
Yet some parents still feel nervous about the potential effects of vaccines, and researchers want to make absolutely sure the vaccines recommended for pregnant women are safe. The new study ? which analyzed records on more than 400,000 infants born between 2004 and 2014 ? provides added reassurance that the vaccines do not harm babies.
The study found that babies whose moms received the Tdap or flu vaccine, or both, during pregnancy had no increased risk of hospitalization or death in their first 6 months of life compared to babies whose moms didn't get the vaccines. In fact, babies whose moms got the Tdap vaccine were less likely to end up in the hospital for respiratory infections.
Previous studies have shown similar results, although this is the first study to analyze hospitalizations and deaths through 6 months of life and to include all types of flu vaccines, the authors wrote.
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