No child ever contracted polio from the oral vaccine when it was given as a third or fourth dose, but the government decided the risk of giving this vaccine was still too great, so they took it off the schedule. Add your comments to the bottom of this page. You can use BabyCenter's Immunization Scheduler to keep track. If your child has ever had a life-threatening allergic reaction to the antibiotics neomycin, streptomycin, or polymyxin B, she should not get the polio shot because it may contain trace amounts of these drugs. If your child is moderately to severely ill at the time the shot is scheduled, you should wait until she recovers before she receives the polio vaccine.
Many children are a little sore at the site of the injection.
No other side effects from the IPV have been reported. Called the doctors office and they gave it to him again the next day. Now he has permanent nerve deafness in both ears. Does anyone out there know if this could cause this type of side affect to the ears. There is no known other cause for the deafness.