"What I tell parents is that splitting the vaccines has not been studied — putting the vaccines together as scheduled has been proven to be safe and effective," she says. "And sometimes combining vaccines at one visit may help some work better together."
Spacing the vaccines out has downsides, she adds. "Splitting them up leaves a kid more vulnerable to certain infections if they get exposed before they're fully protected by the vaccine, it means more visits to the doctor's office, it means more time off that the parents take — things like that."…
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