Pros of vaccinationsVaccinations, what are they; intravenous injections that help us not get sick. Because one says they are obligatory and some say they are not; there can be many different reasons depending on the school or religion. (Fadda, M., Allam., & Schulz, P.J. 2015) As soon as a baby comes out of the womb parents are immediately informed about vaccinations and if there are any they do not want the baby to have. Vaccinations are used to protect us or try to protect us from certain diseases such as chickenpox or flu. As a nursing student, I now understand why it is important to have my vaccinations up to date, but before I never realized their true importance and why they are so crucial to a person's health, especially health. Those may protect your child, but what about vaccinations? According to vaccines.gov, the best way to protect your child is to make sure they have all their vaccinations. As a child preparing to enter middle school, I remember having to go and get a specific injection. I believe it was a tetanus/booster vaccine. If they hadn't given me the injection, they wouldn't have allowed me to attend school. Which is the first reason why you should get vaccinated. It makes everything easier and saves the family time and frustration. After all, no parent wants to run around with their child trying to get them vaccinated in time for school or school admission; and why not get vaccinated if it is covered by your insurance and even if it is not there is always the VCF (Vaccines for Children) program (Fadda, M., Allam., & Schulz, PJ 2015) funded for children to get vaccinated if they come from a low income family who cannot afford the cost of whooping cough, also known as whooping cough, is a disease treated with a vaccine, however before this vaccine was first used there were over three thousand cases of whooping cough and was known to cause over seven thousand deaths per year. (Offit, PA 2001) Now that we have the vaccine in the United States, even though only thirty children are diagnosed or die from whooping cough each year. In Washington, on Vashon Island, according to “How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Affects us All” one in seven children in schools on this island is not vaccinated. The number of children suffering from whooping cough was initially low. 48. Forty-eight individuals had whooping cough on this island in 1994. Now imagine this, that number has increased, and not just by a few individuals. By 1995 this number had risen to over 250 individuals suffering from whooping cough. A whole year and almost half of the population is suffering from this disease because they have not received a vaccination. (Offit, PA 2001) Whooping cough, however, is not just any cough. It may start sharp and seem like something normal, but then it hits and when it hits, it hits hard. Once mucus builds up in the trachea, just like everyone else, the child has tried to cough up the mucus and when he can't he continues coughing without breathing and turns blue in the face due to lack of oxygen. However, this is not the only one