How To Find Out If You Have Been Immunized

Most vaccines

Vaccines forbid serious illnesses – including many that are hands spread in schools and daycare centres. For more than than 200 years vaccines have been saving lives around the world.

Vaccines in Ontario's routine immunization schedule are provided free of charge if you lot meet the eligibility criteria.

Parents and guardians are responsible for reporting vaccines administered to schoolhouse aged children to their local medical officer of wellness.

How to get vaccinated

Talk to your doc or your local public wellness unit of measurement about the vaccines you or your children need.
Get the yellow immunization bill of fare from your doctor. Bring the card with you to each immunization appointment and continue it in a safe place so yous know which vaccines yous or your children have received.
If your children are in school, written report all vaccines your children receive to your local public health unit. If your children attend a licensed daycare eye, report all vaccines your children receive to the daycare centre.

Ontario's yellow immunization record booklet

Vaccine safety

In Canada, we have very strict controls for making vaccines. All vaccines are tested to brand certain they are both prophylactic and effective. The well-nigh common side effects are mild pain, swelling and redness where the injection was given.

Some baby vaccines may crusade a low-class fever (approximately 38°C) or fussiness for a day or 2 afterwards the injection. Doctors may recommend acetaminophen to prevent fever and pain.

Serious side furnishings are rare. Delight report whatsoever side effects or astringent reactions to your doc or public health unit.

Vaccine prophylactic in Ontario
Vaccine rubber, regulation and reporting in Canada

Why you should become vaccinated

When y'all get vaccinated, you make your torso stronger and more resistant to disease. No affair how healthy you are, you lot could get very ill or fifty-fifty die without vaccines to protect y'all.

When you lot go vaccines, you protect everyone else around you, too. This includes our well-nigh vulnerable people, like very young children and people who are sick or aging.

Many people travel or move from one part of the world to another. If too many people delay or refuse vaccines, we will see more cases of serious diseases here in Ontario – even diseases that have been eliminated here for many years, like measles and polio.