Many of us are watching the children going to kindergarten or school without a single vaccination. There are kids, are only partially received vaccination course due to illness (real or imaginary), the lack of vaccines, life circumstances ...
Doctors are not always eager to talk, to provide full information in order to allay parents' fears. What to do if you have finally decided to vaccinate, and your child is not vaccinated at all or it lacks certain vaccines? Revaccination - this vaccination schedule is, sort of a individual schedule according to which the child will be vaccinated against all diseases, but gradually.
Subject vaccinations always worried parents, because even among doctors there is no consensus on this issue! A people without special education can be difficult to figure out what's what.
Is it true that, if passed a certain age for vaccination, they already do not need to?
It is true only in part. Individual schedule is sometimes called "catch-up vaccination", and in the Order there is a separate section dedicated to this topic. Thus, vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus, measles, subject to all previously vaccinated, regardless of age. But there are vaccinations current to a certain age. For example, a vaccine against rotavirus infection is recommended for babies under 6 months of Haemophilus influenzae - up to 5 years. Although almost all of the vaccine can be administered to adolescents and adults, even for certain indications.
How to meet the deadlines between vaccines? They play a role?
Of course, there are the minimum allowable intervals between vaccinations. So, between the BCG vaccine and any other interval should be at least 1 month. The same amount of time to wait between identical immunization, e.g. 1st and 2nd, 2nd and 3rd DTP, between the 1st and the 2nd CPC.
And if you took a little more time will have to redo everything again?
No, I do not have to! No matter how much time has passed since the last vaccination, gradually completed the required number of doses with the minimum permissible intervals between them. That is, if the DTP course involves administration of 4 doses, a baby 2 years ago introduced the two, you need to complete two more in compliance with the spaces between them.
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Why, then, do these terms come up with? Not enough of one dose?
There is a live vaccine, which contains live attenuated pathogens, for example, PDAs (measles, mumps, rubella), BCG (against tuberculosis). There are non-living, which include dead bacteria (inactivated polio vaccine), their individual parts (Hib and pneumococcal disease), weakened toxins (diphtheria, tetanus). Note: in all these preparations contain attenuated microbes or their individual molecules. This means that the human body can not always "remember" the enemy from the first. Yes, through
2-3 weeks after the first dose begin to produce antibodies, and they are for a while will protect a person, but that this protection is lengthy, the vaccination should be repeated. the optimal timing for subsequent introductions have been developed for each of the vaccine, that is a graph in which the maximum effect is achieved.
Is it true that children older than one year better tolerate vaccinations?
It is a myth! All the way around. As the formation of immune response to the vaccine is expected to more rapid, reliable protection will be, but also increase the frequency of side effects. It should take into account the psychological stress of going to the clinic and injections. Without a doubt, in 3 months and 1.5-2-3, he is incomparable. Besides vaccination, taken in time, it is more evenly distributed over time, and that's carried out in haste, for example, before school, "bunch up".
There are vaccines directed against pathogens 3-6. Do they overload the immune system?
Think about it: Every day we are faced with every second millions of different substances and microbes, and direct task of immunity - to organize them into "us" and "them", and then neutralize the latter. Believe me, many bacteria and viruses, human associates, pose a far greater burden than specifically attenuated bacteria that are part of the vaccine, or the more part of them. The advantages of the combined drugs also relates reducing the number of painful manipulations (injections), and hence stress, reduced the number of visits to the clinic, and of the number of entered preservatives and stabilizers is also considerably less.
Where is the guarantee that the baby will be protected by a comprehensive vaccine reliably?
Numerous studies have shown that the efficacy of the combined vaccination is comparable with that in the application of monovalent (against a pathogen).
In many countries in one day allowed to make several different vaccinations. And as we have?
In the last edition of the Order there is a section about the compatibility of vaccines, where a table is very clearly spelled out which ones can and can not be administered in a single visit. For example, DTP and PDAs can be done in one day in different parts of the body, and BCG is not combined with any other vaccines.
Who it is so hard to find those vaccines that are appropriate in all respects! We found DPT polio in one clinic, and vaccination against Hib and PDAs in the other, and write only with a difference in a week. So it is possible?
Yes, you can. Between the doses of the same vaccine should be a certain interval, usually it is not less than a month. Between different in nature vaccinations such restrictions are not provided, except in cases prescribed in the Order.
And what if the vaccination course initiated a vaccine manufacturer, and now it does not exist in the country?
It is better to continue the drug to another company, or wait for the vaccine? There is nothing to wait for! Vaccinations may differ some nuances, but in general they are quite interchangeable and comparable in efficacy.
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If a child suffers from allergies, and because of that he does not have any vaccinations. A mother wants to supposedly protect the baby from dangerous infections, but does not know where to start.
Consult with a pediatrician, make an individual schedule, ask for a referral to an immunologist. In some cases it is possible to carry out vaccinations in the hospital, to be able to stay under the care of physicians within 12-24 hours after the procedure. Sometimes before the vaccination is administered individually tailored drugs.
If a child is weak, his heart disease (asthma, diabetes, one kidney). How can he be vaccinated?
It is not only possible but necessary! After all, having a chronic disease, the baby hard to resist pathogens of serious infections. In many countries, these children, on the contrary, make additional vaccinations, such as pneumococcal, hepatitis A.
What the immune system of a healthy person to cope without loss, can be very dangerous for children with chronic diseases or malformations. For example, US and European protocols include strong recommendations to vaccinate children with heart defects and other authorities on hemodialysis with diabetes and asthma, from hepatitis B, pneumococcus and Haemophilus influenzae. In Ukraine, often specialized experts give unreasonable medotvod as a poorly oriented in the subject of vaccinations.
