 Hello, I am Dr. Bhaskar Shani, Head of the Department of Pediatrics and Chief of Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. Yes, side effects are there with any medications, any vaccinations. But we have to see which is cost, I mean which is beneficial. When the benefits overweigh the side effects, we should ignore these things. Any medication for that matter can have some side effects. Similarly, any vaccination also can have a minor amount of side effects. For example, when we give DPT, they can have a bit of fever, pain at the site of injection, they may be more irritable and that can be controlled with the simple medications like some paracetamol and it goes off in a day or two. Similarly, when we give rotavirus vaccination, the child may have a bit of cramps in the abdomen and sometimes it can have a bit of diarrhea and which is self-limiting and which without any treatment it goes off. But once in a while we do get some major side effects but that is the number is very small. So, looking at the benefit it gives, one small incidence of side effects should be ignored.