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Medical News -
Immune System and Vaccines
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Fever is part of the body's normal inflammatory process after receiving immunisations. Paracetamol is sometimes administered prophylactically to allay parental fears of high fever or febrile convulsions in children after routine infant vaccinations. But while prophylactic paracetamol does reduce post-vaccination fever, it also reduces the child's response to some of the vaccine antigens. Thus use of prophylactic paracetamol can no longer be routinely recommended in this setting. Read more:
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