Meningitis jab: 'infant paracetamol will help baby avoid fever'

Meningitis B vaccine campaign launched by Public Health England with advice to parents to give babies analgesic to ward off high temperatures after jab

Parents are being advised to give paracetamol to babies who have been given the new meningitis B vaccine, to avoid the fever that follows the injection.

But Public Health England, launching the national immunisation campaign which begins on 1 September, stressed that the fever was short-lived in most babies and that the side-effect was far outweighed by the protection the vaccine offered against meningitis and septicaemia, which can kill or lead to amputations in babies.