When children reach 3 months of age, they are vaccinated against serious infectious diseases. The combined vaccine protects the child from three dangerous infections - tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, which is made to a healthy child 3 times with a difference of one and a half month. You can not violate the timing of vaccination, because it does not have the best effect on the development of immunity to diseases in children.
What vaccinations do in 3 months
With rare exceptions, babies are well tolerated with vaccination against tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough. Sometimes a child after a vaccination will be capricious, he may have some ailments, the temperature may rise. Do not be afraid of them. These symptoms are no more than five days, do not require treatment and pass by themselves.
At the same time, it is necessary to pay attention that after vaccination the health of the child can worsen after any infection. Doctors advise that in any case, when the condition of the baby worsens after vaccination, it is urgent to call a doctor.
Some statistics
According to official data, the incidence of whooping cough in the country has decreased by 90%, now practically children do not suffer from diphtheria, tetanus is extremely rare. All this was due to the fact that they were doing a combined vaccine. Together with vaccination against tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough at 3 months make the first inoculation against a dangerous infectious disease such as polio, it causes paralysis of the extremities, affects the peripheral nerves and spinal cord.
In order to prevent poliomyelitis at the first year of life, the child is given a vaccine three times, with a break of one and a half months and in terms of time, it fully coincides with vaccination against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. Do not vaccinate a child who has recently been sick or in contact with an infectious patient, in which case it is necessary to inform the pediatrician about it. The doctor will decide when and in what time period it is better to instill the baby so that the vaccine does not damage the child's health and was the most effective.
After the vaccination, the child should be supervised to ensure that he observes the diet, is not supercooled, or overheated. And you need after vaccination for 6 weeks to save the child from disease, they can badly affect the development of immunity. Therefore, it is necessary to exclude the baby's contacts with viral, respiratory patients and other infectious diseases. If children after the first vaccination feel unimportant, then the parents do not continue inoculation prophylaxis. These actions will harm the health of the child, and there are also his very life.
It happens that a vaccinated child who is in contact with a sick child will become ill. But this happens when the body of a child is weakened after some kind of a transferred disease. But thanks to vaccination, antibodies are produced, they help him to get rid of an infectious disease and help to avoid serious complications.