As a parent, you’ve been your child’s first teacher. You’ve taught them how to talk and you’ve maybe evenhad “the talk”with them. Another part of being your child’s first teacher is teaching them how to be healthy and safe. And one method of staying healthy is ensuring they stay除了免疫力。
Like most children, they’ll probably have a lot of questions about their shots—especially if they’ve heard anything about the加入COVID-19疫苗接种。Like with ‘the sex talk’, these questions are not always easy to answer.
“Discussing vaccinations with kids can be challenging due to their level of understanding and all the information they have access to, accurate and inaccurate, can be potentially confusing,” said Srinivas Dannaram, MD, a psychiatrist at横幅雷鸟医疗中心in Glendale, AZ. “That’s why it’s really important for parents to initiate these conversations early on so kids understand what you’re doing for them is helping keep them healthy and safe.”
A decline in vaccinations
自大流行以来，全国各地的医生seeing a decline in pediatric vaccinations。对于喜欢的医生鲁本·埃斯皮诺萨（Ruben Espinoza），医学博士，亚利桑那州梅萨的班纳健康诊所的儿科医生，主頁(欢迎您)这特别令人震惊。
他说：“当儿童未接种疫苗时，他们就会有更大的风险患麻疹，脊髓灰质炎和肝炎A和B等疾病，这可能会导致终生的残疾和死亡。”“疫苗接种率下降会导致这些危险疾病的新暴发。这是我们在Covid-19的最新情况下需要的最后一件事。”
Talking to your child about vaccinations
Dr. Dannaram and Dr. Espinoza put together some tips for how to approach and explain vaccinations to your child or adolescent.
Make sure you’re up-to-date on your shots
在与您的孩子谈论疫苗接种的重要性之前，请确保您已接受疫苗接种。Check out this helpful chartto see which you need by age.
首先自我教育自己，这样您就对这个话题进行了良好的精力
在接触孩子接种疫苗之前，做一些功课和准备很有帮助。教育自己可以减少您可能产生的任何恐惧和疑虑，进而帮助降低孩子的恐惧。
建议从信誉良好的网站（例如疾病控制与预防中心（CDC），，，，U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)， 这美国儿科学会和主頁(欢迎您)Banner Health网站to guide you toward reliable resources.
从开放式问题开始，并适当回答
开放式问题，例如他们对疫苗的了解以及他们对它们的了解，可以帮助您评估他们的理解和知识，因此您可以以适合年龄的方式建立基础。您还需要对他们的焦虑或不安水平敏感。你最了解你的孩子。跟随他们的领导。
保持对话非正式的选择
疫苗在保持我们的健康方面起着重要作用，但起初可能不容易理解。您不想一次向他们提供太多信息。保持谈话非正式和重新访问。这为您的孩子提供了一些空间来反映和消化他们分享任何疑虑或回顾时提出问题的信息和时间。
Be honest about what they should expect during the visit
永远对他们诚实。接受他们可能会感到某种程度的不适感（有点捏），但这比生病，不得不在医院接受治疗或长时间感到不适。您还可以向他们保证，他们勇敢，他们所做的不仅对他们周围的每个人都有帮助。您将不允许医生在他们的体内放一些东西，您认为这是没有好处的。有关期望的提示，请查看有关CDC网站的信息他们的期望，期间和之后的期望。
如果您的小孩子仍然害怕针头，请查看此有用的帖子减轻焦虑的技巧。
孩子们问疫苗的常见问题
如果您无法回答他们的问题，请不要猜！Dannaram博士和Espinoza博士回答了他们从患者和父母那里听到的一些常见问题。根据孩子的年龄和理解水平，随意调整语言。
1. What is a vaccine?
Our bodies are in a constant fight against harmful germs. Our bodies have many layers of defense to protect us. This is called our immune system. It works quickly in the background helping to protect us. Most of the time our bodies can fight off new and old germs, but sometimes they can’t. Sometimes we need to teach our body to learn how to defend against germs. This process of training our bodies is vaccination.
A vaccine is a special medicine that stops you from getting sick. Vaccines teach our body to defend against germs that may be new so we can quickly defeat them.
2. How do vaccines work?
Vaccines teach our bodies to fight off illnesses. They do this by either putting a teeny tiny bit of the germ/bug or a dead form of the germ/bug into our bodies. When the vaccine is given, our body’s immune system spots the germs/bugs and fights them off, as they would with any infection. When our bodies do this, we create antibodies, or crime fighters, to fend off the germs/bugs. These antibodies stay in our bodies and react if an actual infection occurs.
3. Why do I need a vaccine?
我们需要疫苗来帮助我们抵抗能够使我们真正，非常恶心的感染，甚至可能意味着我们需要去医院。他们有助于确保我们可以做我们喜欢做的事情，例如上学和参加体育运动。
我们还需要疫苗来帮助他人。他们阻止您将细菌传递给未接种疫苗的其他人，例如婴儿太小，无法接受疫苗的婴儿或没有像您这样的强大免疫系统的人。
4. Are vaccines safe?
是的！疫苗非常安全，每年可以节省数百万人的生命，这是很多人。有时，您可能会感到疼痛或发烧一点，但是这些迹象表明您体内犯罪战斗机正在殴打这些细菌/虫子。您的免疫系统正在建立防御，以保护您免受细菌/虫的侵害。
5.但是我很害怕。我必须得到一个吗？
有时会感到有些紧张或害怕是正常的。事实是，镜头发生得如此之快，比任何超级英雄更快，然后完成。现在，您的身体更强壮，能够更好地抵抗细菌。
We can practice at home what will happen at your appointment and, if you want, we can pick out something to bring with you if that’ll help you feel more comfortable. And remember, I’ll be right there with you.
Keeping up-to-date with vaccines is important for children and adults alike. To learn more aboutr疫苗是什么ecommendedfor you or your child, visit bannerhealth.com orvwin.comac德赢官方首页 在你旁边。
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