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My son was administered pneumococcal vaccination at 6 weeks painless and developed mild fever after two days.Is this normal?
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Dr. Harit Bansal
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17 yrs exp
Sonipat
Pneumococcal vaccine can’t cause that
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Dr. Nikhil Dattatrya Kulkarni
Neonatologist
18 yrs exp
Nashik
Pneumococcal vaccine generally does not cause fever and rarely after 48 hours, though literature does state it as a mild after effect. Pentavalent or hexavalent vaccine given along with it might have resulted some rise of temperature. But it rarely happens beyond 48 hours.
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