Dosing for Polio Immunization

Mary Koslap‐Petraco, DNP, PNPPC‐BC, CPNP, FAANP, Stony Brook University School of Nursing, discusses the dosing for children receiving an inactivated polio vaccine. This video was filmed at the 2019 National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAP NAP) annual meeting in New Orleans.

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Mary Koslap‐Petraco, DNP, PNPPC‐BC, CPNP, FAANP: Another vaccine that we’re really promoting the change this year is for IPV or inactivated polio vaccine. All children should have at least 4 doses. If all of those 4 doses have been administered before the fourth birthday as part of combination vaccines, it’s perfectly fine, but they do need to get a fifth dose once they are 4 years of age. And that’s because it is a killed virus vaccine, and we want to make sure we prolong the immunity against polio.