Aluminum adjuvants in vaccines are aluminum salts, commonly aluminum hydroxide or aluminum phosphate.
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Composition of vaccine adjuvants
Aluminum-containing adjuvants enhance vaccine effectiveness by causing mild, short-lived local inflammation that recruits immune cells, which take up antigen and transport it to nearby lymph nodes where antigen presentation to the immune system is increased.
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Mechanism of action for aluminum-based vaccine adjuvants
The combined total aluminum exposure from the routine childhood vaccine schedule is approximately 8 milligrams.
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Estimate of aluminum amount introduced by routine childhood vaccines
People naturally ingest about 400 milligrams of aluminum from everyday sources over the first 18 years of life.
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Estimate of typical aluminum intake from food, water, and other everyday sources during childhood and adolescence