Traveling to Malaysia, will I need to vaccinate baby?
Hi, was wondering if anyone has any advice about infant vaccinations or can let me know where I need to go to get advice. We will be traveling to Malaysia with our 3 month old baby for 10 days visiting KL and Lankowi in April. How young can babies be vaccinated and what vaccines should she have if any? She is fully breast fed. We are not bothering with any vaccines ourselves unless it is important? Unfortunately I live in a remote area in Australia and the GP's here are hopeless, I can guarantee they will not have the information I need that is why I am asking, in fact the child health nurse I just spoke to had no idea and told me to ring around health organisations etc. If it turns out I do need to vaccinate her I will be traveling to the city (2.5 hour plane ride) to get it done. Hi to avoid confusion especially with ppl from the US our baby has had ALL the standard vaccinations required here in Australia, its called immunisation here. I am talking about additional vaccines not normally given here ie: yellow fever, malaria etc.
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better safe then sorry
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Google the CDC (Center for Disease Control), they will know what vaccines are appropriate. I would say yes because of yellow fever.
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I do not think that just because you are going to Malaysia you should get certain vaccines. Your daughter should be vaccinated regardless of location. Here is a vaccination schedule for the United States for children 0-6 years. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/downloads/child/2009/09_0-6yrs_schedule_pr.pdf I would say keep her skin covered and avoid bugs and be extremely careful with her, and kids grow up fine in Malaysia so I hope that your trip goes swimmingly.
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YES ! I had to travel a lot with my little girl now 4 and everytime she would have to take prevention medication and sometimes vaccines. The airplane itself is full of germ. Dont forget to take your regular baby motrin and tylenol and some medication you would use if you were here. Other countries you dont always get the original brand and sometimes expired dates too on medicine. Hold your babies ears at take of time in the plane Good luck and Enjoy your trip
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http://www.traveldoctor.com.au/ I wouldn't vaccinate myself in KL or Lankowi but it doesn't hurt to ask the question about a 3 month old. To be honest it is reasonably sanitised in KL and Lankowi these days these places are not the backwaters of asia. Give these guys a call, they can give better advise (you don't have to take it after all they are in the business of making money) than anyone on here, you may not be able to travel to the city but they may be able to tell you what to tell your local GP.
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