Are you up to date on your vaccines? Have you wondered if you should get an updated tetanus or get the shingles vaccine? The National Life Health and Wellness Center can help!
For adults, risks for certain vaccine-preventable diseases increase as a result of chronic conditions such as hypertension or other heart disease, diabetes, alcoholism, or if you smoke. Risks increase for everyone during outbreaks, such as the current measles outbreak. Important vaccines to consider are measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) if born after 1957; tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis (TDaP); varicella if never diagnosed with chicken pox; zoster or shingles vaccine (Shingrix); human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine; pneumonia vaccine (Pneumovax); and hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccines. Please see the adult immunization schedule below to see what is routinely recommended and at what age. Make time to call your provider, or perhaps childhood healthcare provider(s) or parents, to inquire about your vaccination statues.
The National Life Health and Wellness Center invites any inquiries about vaccinations and/or what vaccinations may be individually relevant, based on personal health risk factors. Please stop by or call the Health and Wellness Center (802.229.7515) if you would like to learn more about these vaccine-preventable diseases or to protect your health with any vaccination(s) due.
