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VACCINE INFORMATION STATEMENT

Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine

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Most people need only one dose of PPSV. A second dose

Why get vaccinated?

is recommended for certain high-risk groups. People 65

and older should get a dose even if they have gotten one

Vaccination can protect older adults (and some children

or more doses of the vaccine before they turned 65.

and younger adults) from pneumococcal disease.

Your healthcare provider can give you more information

Pneumococcal disease is caused by bacteria that can

about these recommendations.

spread from person to person through close contact. It

Most healthy adults develop protection within 2 to 3

can cause ear infections, and it can also lead to more

weeks of getting the shot.

serious infections of the:

• Lungs (pneumonia),

Some people should not get

• Blood (bacteremia), and

this vaccine

• Covering of the brain and spinal cord (meningitis).

• Anyone who has had a life-threatening allergic

Meningitis can cause deafness and brain damage, and

reaction to PPSV should not get another dose.

it can be fatal.

• Anyone who has a severe allergy to any component of

Anyone can get pneumococcal disease, but children

PPSV should not receive it. Tell your provider if you

under 2 years of age, people with certain medical

have any severe allergies.

conditions, adults over 65 years of age, and cigarette

smokers are at the highest risk.

• Anyone who is moderately or severely ill when the

shot is scheduled may be asked to wait until they

About 18,000 older adults die each year from

recover before getting the vaccine. Someone with a

pneumococcal disease in the United States.

mild illness can usually be vaccinated.

Treatment of pneumococcal infections with penicillin

• Children less than 2 years of age should not receive

and other drugs used to be more effective. But some

this vaccine.

strains of the disease have become resistant to these

drugs. This makes prevention of the disease, through

• There is no evidence that PPSV is harmful to either

vaccination, even more important.

a pregnant woman or to her fetus. However, as a

precaution, women who need the vaccine should be

Pneumococcal polysaccharide

vaccinated before becoming pregnant, if possible.

vaccine (PPSV23)

Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23)

protects against 23 types of pneumococcal bacteria. It

will not prevent all pneumococcal disease.

PPSV23 is recommended for:

• All adults 65 years of age and older,

• Anyone 2 through 64 years of age with certain long-

term health problems,

• Anyone 2 through 64 years of age with a weakened

immune system,

• Adults 19 through 64 years of age who smoke

cigarettes or have asthma.

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