Rotavirus is one of the main pathogens that cause diarrhea in infants and young children. It is easy to cause severe diarrhea in infants and young children, and may even lead to death due to dehydration.

As China’s 35th National Childhood Vaccination Promotion Day is approaching, experts reminded that there is currently no cure for rotavirus infection, and vaccination is the best way to prevent rotavirus infection.

  Cui Yutao, a well-known parenting expert, recently stated that infants and young children can be vaccinated against rotavirus before the peak incidence of 6 months to 2 years old, which can play a good role in protecting children.

  Cui Yutao said that taking the oral vaccination of the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine as an example, infants and young children between 6 and 12 weeks of age must receive the first dose of the vaccine. If they are not vaccinated at 12 weeks of age, they can no longer take it.

Moreover, the interval between each dose is 4-10 weeks, which means that the second dose must be inoculated at 10-22 weeks of age, and the third dose must be inoculated at 14-32 weeks of age.

The three doses should be completed before 8 months of age (32 weeks of age), which is a time point that needs special attention.

(Reporter Yu Zhanyi produced Wu Rui)

Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]