Children suffering from allergic diseases are more prone both to the risk of falling ill and to receiving complications and side effects as a result of the illness. Should they be vaccinated in this case?
We asked pediatrician Anna Levadnaya to answer this important question for many parents.
“Vaccination is not a stress for the immune system but, on the contrary, additional protection. So it’s not only possible, but also necessary!”, the expert says.
Although quite often the presence of allergic reactions in a child is perceived by pediatricians just as a reason to refuse vaccination.
But is it better and safer to get sick? In particular, if we are talking about, for example, influenza, which in recent years has been passing with serious complications.
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The expert recommends that parents in case of refusal to vaccination, require the pediatrician to provide a note on contraindications in the instructions for the vaccine. Most often there are no such notes! Since the contraindications are false.
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In the case of allergic children, something else is important: to choose the right time for vaccination, sometimes it is necessary to provide antihistamine protection. Here, the pediatrician needs to work in tandem with the allergist. But it is not worth giving up vaccinations completely. 
Anna Levadnaya Health Pediatrician