Vaccination of a child is a preventive measure aimed at building immunity against certain infectious diseases. For the first time, it began to be carried out only about a century ago, but now, thanks to it, it has been possible to significantly reduce the incidence of many dangerous ailments.
Among the main victories of vaccination is the fact that such a disease as smallpox does not occur in the human population today. Previously, such a disease claimed the lives of a huge number of people.
To do or not to do?
Just a few decades ago, young parents did not even have the question of whether their child should be vaccinated. Now a fairly large number of fathers and mothers decide to refuse all kinds of vaccinations. Much of this is facilitated by the media reporting on how someone has been harmed by vaccination. It is fair to say that after vaccination, a person, and especially a child, may feel bad for some time. In addition, onAllergic reactions may occur with certain components of vaccines. In the vast majority of cases, all these side effects are very mild. Serious complications can occur in those people who were vaccinated while they had an active inflammatory process.
Contraindications
Vaccination of a child should be carried out only if he did not have severe allergic reactions to similar vaccinations. In addition, as noted above, vaccination should not be carried out in cases where the baby has an active inflammatory process in the body or an exacerbation of any chronic disease is observed. In this case, most often the child is not vaccinated until 1.5 weeks after recovery.
Where and when is vaccination given?
Children a few days old are vaccinated directly at the maternity hospital. In the future, this function falls on the pediatric clinic or the vaccination center for children. It should be noted that in the first case, the babies will be injected with a domestic drug. As for specialized centers, here parents have the opportunity to take advantage of the achievements of foreign pharmaceuticals, but this service is paid.
Vaccination of children is carried out according to a certain plan - the vaccination schedule. According to him, after birth, babies are vaccinated against hepatitis B during the first day. On days 3-7, they are vaccinated against tuberculosis. The next time the child is vaccinated is when he turns 1 month old (second vaccination against hepatitis B). After that, they take a break for 2 months. Then 3 vaccinations are sequentially performed immediately against 4 infections (whooping cough, poliomyelitis, tetanus and diphtheria) - on the 3rd, 4th or 5th, and also the 6th month of life. In the future, at the age of 1.5 years, this vaccination is repeated. There are 2 more vaccinations before that. At 6 months, the child receives the 3rd hepatitis B vaccination, and at the age of 1 year, he should receive vaccinations against rubella, mumps, and measles.
