How to prepare a child for vaccination? A few simple recommendations will help you properly adjust the child to vaccination and avoid possible unpleasant consequences after it.
First, you need to know which vaccine will be given to the child. Ask the pediatrician about its possible consequences, side effects. Often the vaccine can cause an allergic reaction, in a pediatric medicine cabinet for such cases, you should have suprastin or another anti-allergenic drug for children. Sometimes the doctor appoints to give antiallergenic drugs to the child 3 days before the vaccination. Especially it concerns the children, suffering food and other kinds of an allergy.
The day before the vaccination is not recommended to introduce new products into the baby's diet. It is better to make a habitual menu of dishes, which the kid used more than once. Use the usual menu on the day of vaccination.
One week before the vaccination, measure the temperature of the child's body every morning and evening. The kid should be completely healthy. Before vaccination, a pediatrician is required to check, even a common runny nose has severe consequences after vaccination. Also, make sure that everyone in your family is healthy, since the immunity of the child after a vaccination is temporarily reduced and will not be able to fight back the disease. Therefore, in the first days after vaccination, it is not recommended to go with a child to crowded places and even visit. Let no one come to visit you.
After the child has been vaccinated, do not rush to leave the hospital home. Wait for 15-20 minutes, if after this time the child's condition is satisfactory, the temperature does not rise and an allergic reaction does not appear, then you can safely go home.
Some kinds of vaccinations (in particular, complex ones) are heavily carried by children. The fever may rise, so it is necessary to have children's antipyretic syrups or candles in the medicine cabinet. It is necessary to bring down the temperature of the child, if it is above 38.5 degrees. Some especially sensitive to vaccinations children can sleep the whole next day, some become listless and passive, other children lose their appetite and mood worsens.
Usually, after vaccination, doctors do not recommend bathing the baby for a day. Sometimes a vaccine requires a longer refusal of water procedures, the pediatrician must also warn you about this.
If after the vaccination the baby feels well, he does not get a fever and a good mood, then leave the regime of the day unchanged. The total time of walking for the first two days after inoculation is reduced to half an hour. Do not walk with the child in crowded places where he can pick up the infection.
You should not scratch the site of vaccination, and if a dense tubercle forms on the site of the vaccine, you can anoint it with iodine to dissolve it faster. If the doctor has appointed or nominated to you the repeated reception, it is necessary to reduce on him the child, because some inoculations are subject to medical check.
It is also important to psychologically adjust the child to a "stab" in order not to forcibly drag the resisting baby into the treatment room, thereby traumatizing his psyche. Usually, children are afraid of injections and actively resist them. In order not to get into an embarrassing situation, on the day of vaccination, tell the baby why you will go to the hospital, that the vaccination is very important for his health, that it is put to all small children. Tell us how you were given injections as a child and you did not cry because the injection is like a mosquito bite: it does not really hurt. Give the baby to understand that you are with him, and the aunt-doctor is not angry at all and will put the injection very quickly, so quickly that he will not notice!
Health to you and your children and "easy" vaccinations!