But the mother's immunity suffices for a short time - for several months, at most for a year, depending on what kind of illness is involved. And then the children's body is ready to create its own specific immunity and produce its antibodies in response to the effects of a dangerous foreign antigen. Vaccinations are the easiest way to protect against infectious diseases, which exists in modern medicine. Infectious diseases are viruses (for example, rotavirus infection - "intestinal flu", measles, rubella, poliomyelitis) or bacteria (tuberculosis, whooping cough, tetanus). The vaccine is an attenuated or killed pathogenic agent or an artificial substitute. She "simulates" the disease, creates a reduced copy. But the main thing is that the vaccine causes a natural protective reaction - the production of antibodies. They remain in the body, forming its immunological memory. Thanks to preventive vaccinations, smallpox has been eradicated in the world, the incidence of polio, diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B and other diseases has sharply decreased. Please note, pets are forbidden to be taken out to the street until they receive a vaccination course in the first months of their life. So why are we vaccinating our smaller friends necessarily and always checking when buying a pet, is it vaccinated, and we refuse to vaccinate our children? Vaccination is very important and necessary.
However, in order to decide whether to vaccinate or not, you should also know about another point of view on vaccination. Vaccinations do protect us from deadly diseases, but they can also cause great harm to health. They should be treated with extreme caution and before vaccination consult with a doctor. In my opinion, there are no safe vaccinations. First, vaccination is an unnatural interference with immunity. Secondly, each vaccine contains a number of dangerous preservative substances. It is usually salts of mercury or aluminum. Third, some vaccines contain human embryonic cells, i. E. abortive material. It is a vaccine against rubella and hepatitis A. The problem is very urgent, moral. After visiting the pediatrician, ask him in detail about the diseases against which you plan to instill the baby, about the possible course, outcome and consequences of the disease, if you do not vaccinate the child, and he suddenly picks it up. And also about the degree of probability of the reaction in the crumbs to the vaccine itself. Analyze the information received and make a choice.
Vaccination can be single (for example, against measles, tuberculosis) or multiple (viral hepatitis B, polio, DTP vaccine against pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus). Can some vaccinations harm the child's body? Hardly ever. From 3 months of the child's life three times with an interval of 1.5 months begin to vaccinate against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis. Moreover, in recent years an inactivated (killed) vaccine has been used against poliomyelitis, which is absolutely safe. After a flu shot, many a few days feel a slight malaise, muscles can ache and even fever. This is an accelerated version of the disease, which will help to avoid a seasonal epidemic. Other vaccines after the injection do not make themselves felt at all. The most safe is considered the vaccination against hepatitis B, which is done to infants even on the first day of life, if there is a risk of contracting the virus from the mother. Each vaccine, like any medicine, can cause side reactions. Complications arise if the doctor does not take into account contraindications to vaccination. For example, patients who undergo treatment with immunosuppressants should not be injected with live bacteria. In general, the conditions under which vaccines are contraindicated, can be very different: from ARI to immunodeficiency. In any case, it is better to consult a doctor. Immunologists are already tired of defending themselves from accusations that vaccinations themselves cause complications. The statistics include any changes in the state of health within a month after vaccination. And often they are not connected with vaccination. In addition to mandatory, there are a number of inoculations, which are made in acute need. Everyone knows that vaccines are contraindicated for pregnant women, but if a future dog is bitten by a dog, it will be necessary to conduct a full examination and get a vaccination against rabies. Otherwise, the risk of getting sick is not only the mother, but also the child.
One inoculation for two
Doctors say that pregnant women are the same as patients with chronic pathology. It is no wonder, after all the organism of the future mum works for two, huge loading lays down, including on immune system. Any injection to pregnant women is done with extreme caution, given how this can affect the baby. There is a risk, even if the woman was ill with something for three months before conception. Therefore, vaccinations against infections should be planned in advance, making up your own calendar. It all depends on the age of the mother. By 23-25 years a woman should already have a full set of vaccinations. If she is older, you will have to repeat the "child" injections (rubella, chickenpox, measles, parotitis, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, pneumococcus, hemophilia). The baby will get mother's immunity and will be protected in the first months of life. But already during pregnancy, live vaccines can not be administered, because the virus can be in the blood of the child. If there is a risk that the expectant mother picked up the infection, she gets an injection of immunoglobulins - these are ready antibodies that will protect against the disease. In the last months of pregnancy, you can use a rubella vaccine if the woman has not been sick before. This is a live vaccine, but by this time the virus will not hurt the baby. Without a vaccination card, a child may be refused admission to a kindergarten. Officially, he should still be taken to kindergarten and school. However, in fact there will probably be problems with the administration, especially considering what kind of queues we have in kindergartens. So be prepared for any turn of events.
On a long journey
Travelers though are not considered as chronic patients, but also should pay close attention to vaccination. And this applies not only to trips to exotic countries. For example, hepatitis A has long been thought of as an inoculation, but this disease is still found in warm resort countries, for example, in Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Cyprus. Willy-nilly you will wonder where to go next time on vacation. Vaccination from typhoid fever is made for tourists traveling to developing countries of North Africa, India, Central Asia. Yellow fever is common in Africa and South America. Vaccination is carried out one to two weeks before the trip, it is enough to vaccinate once every ten years. More common for us tick-borne encephalitis can be infected almost everywhere: from Karelia to the Urals and Siberia. True, the Moscow region and central Russia, the tick has so far not captured enough to talk about an epidemic. But if you often go to the forest, it is better to get vaccinated. The bird flu H5N1 code is still on hearing, but the vaccine has not been developed yet. All that remains for travelers to Asia is to avoid poultry farms and be careful to cook meat and eggs. Now we know which vaccination is more important for the child.