Book your DTP vaccination online
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A booster vaccination is advised every 10 years for those at risk.
The DTP vaccine is for children ages 6 and above.
| DTP Vaccine | Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Single DTP Vaccination | £47 | |
| Course of Treatment: | 1 dose | |
| Total cost including nurse fee | £72 | |
| DTP + Whooping Cough Vaccine | £69 | |
| Course of Treatment: | 1 dose | |
| Total cost including nurse fee | £94 | |
| Travel booster including travel consultation | £65 |
Fleet Street Clinic is not a VAT registered company
Who should have the diphtheria, tetanus and polio vaccine for travel?
You should consider vaccination if you have not had this vaccine during the past ten years.
Almost everyone should have been vaccinated against these three diseases during childhood, with the last childhood dose given during mid-teens.
Protection should be updated every 10 years and travel provides a good opportunity to do this since childhood vaccination does not provide lifelong protection.
Most adults therefore need updates from their mid-twenties onwards.
How many doses of the DTP vaccine are required?
Five doses are given during childhood, the last of these at age 14. Protection can be updated every 10 years after that.
The UK childhood vaccination schedule consists of five doses, with the last of these at age 14. Most teenagers and gap-year students don’t therefore need a vaccine update for their travels.
An update for travel is usually recommended every 10 years after the last childhood dose.
How does the DTP vaccine work?
Repevax is a killed vaccine.
The vaccine contains purified, inactivated, diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, as well as killed fragments of three different strains of polio virus.
It produces protective antibodies against harmful toxins made by diphtheria and tetanus bacteria, and against all three strains of the polio virus
We always have good vaccine stocks available.
Polio circulating in London sewage
In 2022, polio virus was detected in London sewage, resulting in children aged 1-9 years being offered an extra booster polio vaccine dose.
Although this emergency is now over, this episode illustrates how quickly things can change if there is a lapse in our vaccination programme.
A similar emergency is now taking place in some parts of the UK, with rising numbers of measles cases, following a fall in numbers of children vaccinated.
It is really important for children and adults to stay up-to-date with recommended vaccine protection.
More about the 2022 polio emergency...
What is diphtheria?
Diphtheria is a serious bacterial infection of the respiratory tract or skin, with potentially life-threatening complications. It is completely preventable by immunisation.
Diphtheria is spread by respiratory droplets or secretions and by contact with broken skin.
Humans are the only reservoirs of the disease; carriers may harbour the organism for prolonged periods. In non-immune individuals the bacteria multiply in the upper respiratory tract, most commonly the throat and nostrils, causing intense inflammation.
Symptoms of diphtheria include:
- Thick, grey membrane on the throat and tonsils
- Sore throat
- Swollen glands in neck (lymph nodes)
- Difficulty breathing
- High temperature
The multiplying bacteria release a potent toxin, which travels through the bloodstream to affect many organs in the body, most notably the heart, kidneys and nerves. Death from toxin damage can occur several weeks after the patient appears to have made an uneventful recovery.
Diphtheria bacilli may also colonise pre-existing skin injuries to cause cutaneous diphtheria, often on the lower legs, feet and hands. These infections are usually mild but chronic and represent the major reservoir of diphtheria in tropical countries.
What is tetanus?
Tetanus is a serious infection caused by bacteria getting into a wound.
Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani bacteria that lie dormant as spores in the soil. Spores enter the body through soil contamination of wounds or via unclean surgical instruments and needles. Once inside the wound the spores germinate and the bacteria grow and multiply. Environments with low oxygen concentrations, such as deep wounds with a poor blood supply and/or lots of residual dead tissue, are especially favourable for bacterial growth.
Clostridium tetani produce a powerful toxin that spreads through the body in the blood, and is taken up into nerves, where it exerts its effects. Days or weeks after the initial infection, symptoms begin to occur, especially stiffness of the jaw muscles causing ‘lock-jaw’ and difficulty in swallowing.
Tetanus is fatal in around 1 in 10 cases.
The symptoms of tetanus include:
- Lockjaw (stiffness in your jaw muscles)
- Muscles spasms
- Difficulty swallowing
- High temperature
- Sweating
- Rapid heart rate
Fast treatment is necessary to prevent symptoms from worsening.
Tetanus is entirely preventable by immunisation.
What is polio?
Polio (which is short for poliomyelitis) is a serious viral infection spread by food or water contaminated with faeces or sewage from a person infected with or harbouring one of three strains of the polio virus.
Most people don’t develop any symptoms of polio or even realise they’re infected.
For the small number of people who do, they may experience symptoms of:
- High temperature
- Sore throat
- Headache
- Abdominal pain
- Sickness
In severe cases of polio, the virus can attack the nerves in the spine and brain which can cause paralysis. Polio used to be called infantile paralysis. Paralysis can affect the breathing muscles of the chest, or the muscles of the arm or leg, resulting in a shortened, contracted limb. It can cause lasting disability or death.
Unfortunately it has not yet been eradicated, so everyone should be immunised against this important disease.
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Book your DTP vaccination online
Book Appointment
A booster vaccination is advised every 10 years for those at risk.
The DTP vaccine is for children ages 6 and above.
| DTP Vaccine | Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Single DTP Vaccination | £47 | |
| Course of Treatment: | 1 dose | |
| Total cost including nurse fee | £72 | |
| DTP + Whooping Cough Vaccine | £69 | |
| Course of Treatment: | 1 dose | |
| Total cost including nurse fee | £94 | |
| Travel booster including travel consultation | £65 |
Fleet Street Clinic is not a VAT registered company
FAQs
Yes, we are happy to provide childhood vaccines for children if for any reason this cannot be provided by the NHS. Please contact us for more information.
When attending with children, please bring your child’s “red book” along with you.
In the UK, your child’s vaccination history is normally recorded in their red book, which should be updated every time they receive a vaccine.
If you forget to bring it, we can still see you and vaccinate your child without it, and update it afterwards.
Yes, please try to remember to bring it with you.
No. They are similar but DTP contains diphtheria tetanus and polio, whereas DTap-IPV contains diphtheria, tetanus, polio and acellular pertussis also (whooping cough vaccine).
Diphtheria, tetanus and polio protection is included in infant and pre-school vaccines (in 6-in-1 and 4-in-1 combinations)
The 3-in-1 DTP combination is given as a teenage booster dose, usually at age 14, then every 10 years thereafter.
DTP forms part of the national schedule of vaccinations in the UK but is not a mandatory vaccine.
Yes. There is no interaction between DTP and MMR. It is safe to give them at the same time, in the same appointment.
Yes. There is no interaction between DTP and varicella vaccine. It is safe to give them at the same time, in the same appointment.
Yes. There is no interaction between DTP and meningitis ACWY vaccine. It is safe to give them at the same time, in the same appointment.
