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My father had undergone cabg in2004,in 2012 my father was given pneumovax and cardiologist told to revaccinate after 5 yrs,from last 2-3yrs my father suffers from wet cough ever winter(we r from haryana),last year when we met plumonolgist he gave same respues n medications n asked us not to take pneumovax in this situation. Now last mont my father met cardio for regular chkup,n when we asked abt pneumovax,the dr asked us to take in september end. Cant i vaccinate now,also in market inj available is pneumovax 23 not pneumovax.
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There two types of pneumovax 13 and 23 ,for elderly pneumovax 23 is referred
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