No Benefit to Delaying Vaccines

from Pediatrics in Fit Pregnancy

Parents who mistakenly believe multiple vaccinations raise the risk for autism and are thus tempted to delay some of their infant’s shots should be reassured by a study of more than 1,000 children.  It found that babies who received all the recommended immunizations on time during their first year of life did as well, if not better, on cognitive tests at ages 7 to 10 compared with children who got their vaccines late or not at all.

Delaying or spacing out immunizations only prolongs a baby’s susceptibility to such potentially fatal diseases as measles and whooping cough.