Proper Use

Drug information provided by: Merative, Micromedex®

A nurse or other trained health professional will give your child this vaccine. This vaccine is given as a shot into one of your child’s muscles, usually in the shoulder muscle.

Kinrix® may be given as the fifth dose in the DTaP vaccine and as the fourth dose in IPV vaccine in children who have received previous DTaP vaccine (eg, Infanrix®, Pediarix®) for the first 3 doses and Infanrix® for the fourth dose.

Your child may receive other vaccines at the same time as this one, but in a different body area. You should receive information sheets about all of the vaccines your child receives. Make sure you understand all of the information that is given to you.

Your child may also receive a medicine to help prevent or treat some of the minor side effects of the vaccine, such as fever and soreness.