August is National Immunization Awareness Awareness Month and Solantic Baptist Urgent Care is ready with all your family’s immunization needs. With children starting school, college students heading back for the fall term and flu season just around the corner, August is prime time for immunizations nationwide. Each of Solantic Baptist Urgent Care’s Florida locations offers a full battery of immunizations required and recommended for every age group for school, work and travel.

Solantic Baptist Urgent Care offers all CDC-required and recommended immunizations.

Solantic Baptist Urgent Care offers all immunizations listed in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization schedules for children, adolescents and adults. We also offer walk-in service when an unexpected vaccination need arises, such as the need for tetanus boosters and rabies vaccinations. Our highly trained medical staff keeps up to date on all needed or recommended vaccinations for people who work in specified high-risk industries. For instance, veterinarians, animal handlers, pet rescue transporters, park rangers and certain laboratory workers often are required to get regular rabies vaccinations even if they have not been bitten or otherwise exposed to rabies.

If you’re planning a trip abroad, Solantic Baptist Urgent Care also can assure you get all the immunizations required and recommended for travel to various countries and regions of the world. Whether you’re a frequent international business traveler, a spouse-to-be planning to honeymoon in some faraway tropical locale, or a student preparing to depart for a study abroad program any Solantic urgent care clinic can assure that you’re ready for travel.

We also offer seasonal immunizations such as flu shots and seasonal allergy vaccines, and screenings including TB skin tests. Solantic Baptist Urgent Care clinics are open 365 days a year and you never need an appointment. We make it easy for busy parents and professionals to get the treatment and preventative they and their families need. To make sure you and yours remain up to date on required and recommended immunizations, visit the Solantic urgent care location nearest you.

A study released this month further debunks the long-contested notion that the measles vaccine heightens the risk of autism in children. In fact, results of the study indicate that children whose immunization includes the MMR vaccination were less likely to develop autism. This information comes on the heels of the The Lancet medical journal’s retraction of its controversial 1998 study that suggested a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Led by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the study claimed evidence of developmental regression in children shortly after receiving MMR vaccine. That report sent thousands of parents into high alert mode and many refused to allow their children to be given immunization for MMR.

The new study was led by Dorota Mrozek-Budzyn, of Jagiellonian University Medical College, in Krakow, Poland and appeared on the website of The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (It’s slated to appear in the journal’s print version in May). Researchers compared 96 autistic children with 192 children who did not have the disorder and sought out any clues as to a relationship between autism and the measles vaccination, adjusting for other known or suspected autism risk factors such as the mother’s age and education, the length of gestation, medications ingested during pregnancy and the child’s condition immediately after birth. No evidence was found that linked measles immunization with any autism risk.

At Solantic Walk-In Urgent Care, we recommend all school age children receive immunization for measles, mumps, rubella and other potential illnesses. Immunizations are available at any of Solantic’s 30 Florida urgent care clinics. They include:

•    Seasonal Flu Shot
•    Gardasil (HPV)
•    Hepatitis B Vaccine Series
•    MMR
•    Menactra (Meningitis)
•    Pneumonia Vaccine
•    Tetanus Booster
•    Tetanus/Pertussis
•    Varicella (Chicken Pox Vaccine)

We make quality healthcare affordable, too. Solantic Walk-In Urgent Cares immunization rates start at just $30 for the seasonal flu shot and go up to just $175 for the Gardasil vaccine. We also offer immunizations required by adults and children for international travel. If it’s time for your family’s next round immunizations, call us today at 1-866-SOLANTIC or 904-223-2320. Don’t leave your child’s health to chance.