Straightforward guides to who needs which vaccine and why, written by the doctors at Dr. Vaccines. If you would rather just ask us, book an appointment and we will work through it with you.
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Vaccinations During Pregnancy
Which vaccines protect you and your baby, which must wait until after delivery, and when to have each one.
Seniors (60+)
Vaccinations for Senior Citizens
Immunity weakens with age at the same time as infections become more dangerous. These are the vaccines that matter most after 60.
After menopause
Vaccinations After Menopause
Menopause is a practical moment to review your immunisation record, several vaccines become relevant in exactly this decade.
Women's vaccines
Vaccinations for Women
A decade-by-decade view of the vaccines that matter for women, from HPV in the teens and twenties through to shingles after 50.
After 30
Vaccines to Take After 30
Childhood immunity does not last forever. This is the decade to find out what has lapsed and what you never had.
Travel
Travel Vaccinations
What you need depends on where you are going, how long for, and what you will be doing there. Start six weeks before you fly.
Lung protection
Vaccinations to Protect Your Lungs
Influenza, pneumococcus, pertussis, COVID-19 and RSV are all vaccine-preventable, and all of them attack the respiratory tract.
Regular drinkers
Vaccinations for Regular Alcohol Drinkers
Sustained alcohol use changes both liver resilience and immune function, which moves several vaccines from optional to advisable.
Liver protection
Vaccines That Protect Your Liver
Two of the five hepatitis viruses are vaccine-preventable. Knowing which, and what to do about the others, is the whole picture.
Typhoid
Typhoid Fever Vaccination
Typhoid remains common across India. The conjugate vaccine gives longer protection than the older polysaccharide one and works in young children.
Rabies
Rabies Vaccination
Rabies is effectively always fatal once symptoms begin, and entirely preventable before then. India accounts for a large share of global deaths.
Shingles
Shingles Vaccination
The chickenpox virus never leaves. Shingles is it waking up decades later, and the nerve pain that can follow is the reason to prevent it.
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A Vaccination
Spread through contaminated food and water. Usually mild in children, considerably more serious in adults, and worth checking whether you are already immune.
TB testing
TB Skin Test and QuantiFERON-TB Gold
Two ways to test for latent TB. In India, where nearly everyone had BCG, the difference between them matters a great deal.
MMR serology
MMR Serology (Measles, Mumps, Rubella Titre Test)
A single blood test that proves immunity to measles, mumps and rubella. The documentation universities and employers actually ask for.
Varicella serology
Varicella (Chickenpox) Serology Test
A blood test that settles whether you had chickenpox, because family recollection is not reliable enough to act on.
Hepatitis B serology
Hepatitis B Serology Test
Three markers that distinguish current infection, past infection and vaccine-induced immunity, results that are easy to misread.
Home collection
Home Sample Collection
A phlebotomist comes to you, draws the sample at home, and the report reaches you digitally. No queue, no travel, no time off work.
CBC
Complete Blood Count (CBC) Test
The most commonly ordered blood test there is, and the one that most often points to what to look at next.
HbA1c
HbA1c Test
A single blood test that shows your average blood sugar over roughly three months, with no fasting required.
Titre tests
Titre Tests (Immunity Blood Tests)
One blood sample that proves what you are immune to, for universities, visa medicals and healthcare employment.
Drug panel
Drug Panel Testing
Screening panels for employment, visa and institutional requirements, handled discreetly and reported in the format the requesting body expects.
Health checkup
General Health Checkups
A baseline set of tests that catches the conditions which develop quietly, chosen for what is actually common in India rather than a generic package.
Consultation
General Consultation
Time with a doctor to work out what is actually going on, which tests are worth doing, and what the results mean.
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C: Testing, Prevention and Cure
There is no hepatitis C vaccine: but unlike hepatitis B, hepatitis C can now be cured in most people with a short course of tablets.
Viruses & vaccine types
Types of Viruses and Types of Vaccines
Why some vaccines are one dose and others are five, why a few cannot be given in pregnancy, and why flu needs repeating every year.
How viruses spread
Viruses That Spread From Person to Person
Airborne, droplet, faecal-oral, blood-borne or sexual. The route of transmission determines what actually protects you.
Indian families
Common Diseases in Indian Families and What Prevents Them
A practical look at the infections that actually circulate in Indian households, and which of them are vaccine-preventable.
Bring whatever vaccination records you have, however incomplete, and our doctors will tell you what is outstanding and arrange it in as few visits as possible.
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