Vaccination coverage of children with inflammatory bowel disease after an awareness campaign on the risk of infection.

Background: Children with inflammatory bowel disease are at risk of vaccine-preventable diseases mostly due to immunosuppressive drugs.

Aim: To evaluate coverage after an awareness campaign informing patients, their parents and general practitioner about the vaccination schedule.

Methods: Vaccination coverage was firstly evaluated and followed by an awareness campaign on the risk of infection via postal mail.

Immunization status in children with inflammatory bowel disease.

Inflammatory bowel diseases have an increased risk of infections due to immunosuppressive therapies. To report the immunization status according to previous recommendations and the reasons explaining a delay, a questionnaire was filled in by the pediatric gastroenterologist, concerning outpatients, in six tertiary centers and five local hospitals, in a study, from May to November 2011. One hundred and sixty-five questionnaires were collected, of which 106 Crohn's diseases, 41 ulcerative colitis, and 17 indeterminate colitis.