Is it worth it to make a child 8 years old with a flu shot?
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Helen
Parents take a decision on vaccination voluntarily. Vaccination against influenza is not a routine vaccination, because it is impossible to vaccinate children without taking into account its individual characteristics. The reason for doubting the effectiveness and necessity of vaccination is the fact that most parents do not believe in the effectiveness and need for a vaccine.
The effectiveness of vaccination against influenza is about 80% and depends on the physiological characteristics the child's organism, the epidemiological situation in the locality where the child lives and the quality of the vaccine itself. Therefore, the vaccinated child still has a 20% chance that he can get influenza, but will recover in mild form and without complications.
Influenza is the most common infectious disease that is caused by one of the viruses - A, B, C. Children's susceptibility to these viruses is quite high. The main difference from the common cold is that with the flu, the child complains of headaches, aching joints and muscles, becomes sluggish. The greatest danger is the complications of influenza in the form of otitis or pneumonia.
Children with immunocompromised immunizations are recommended to be vaccinated against influenza, since even if the vaccine does not protect them from infection, at least the disease will proceed without complications. Many parents are afraid of the consequences and impact of vaccination on the children's body. There is an opinion that the vaccine can cause irreparable harm to the health of the child. Previously, the flu vaccine could indeed have side effects, but modern vaccines have strong differences from their predecessors. Now they do not give side effects, unless the child has an allergy to chicken protein. To date, there are over a dozen vaccines.
In addition, the flu vaccine stimulates the production of interferon, and strengthens the overall immunity. The vaccine is recommended to be done one month before the expected epidemic. If the child is already sick with the flu, then vaccination is useless. Influenza vaccinations for children are contraindicated in the common cold and other diseases. If the child has suffered any disease, the vaccination should be carried out one month after recovery. Today vaccinations against influenza are done in schools and kindergartens, but if desired, vaccination can be done at any hospital. After vaccination, be sure to take a certificate, where the series and name of the vaccine will be fixed, as well as the date of the vaccine.
Vaccination against influenza: contraindications. Do I need a flu vaccine?
Seasonal flu is a disease that affects millions of citizens annually. The most favorable time for the disease is autumn and winter, when human immunity is weakened and can not cope with viruses so effectively. Different strains of viruses can cause the development of an acute respiratory disease, but, despite the nature of the pathogen, the symptoms are very similar in all cases. The patient has a fever, a sore throat, a cold, a cough and a headache.
Inoculation against influenza
To prevent the onset of many infectious diseases, vaccination is given. After the opening of the first vaccine, doctors saved hundreds of millions of lives. Against the flu every year, millions of people are vaccinated, because the vaccine is today considered to be the main preventive method in the fight against infections.
Sometimes potential patients have a question: do I need a flu vaccine? The vaccine is a weakened viral material that can not reproduce in the body. When a vaccine material is introduced to a person whose set of proteins is identical to the active virus, his immune system starts producing antibodies against the virus.
Time for vaccination
To be vaccinated against the flu is best in the fall (from September to November), because the epidemic of the disease at this time is becoming a massive one. Inflammation is administered to children and adults. It is not recommended to vaccinate the vaccine in the spring or summer, as the amount of antibodies decreases with time, and the effect from it is not so strong.
You can get a vaccine against the flu even after the epidemic begins. If the vaccination was carried out and the next day the person was infected, the vaccine will not worsen the course of the disease. Much worse the flu will leak if such vaccinations are not done, even there is a risk of serious complications.
Who needs an inoculation
To date, inoculations are already done by infants from 6 months of age. There is a category of people who need a vaccination against the flu in the first place. In the high-risk zone, there are elderly people, patients who are on inpatient treatment, pregnant women. It is necessary to vaccinate children and adolescents (from 6 months to 18 years), especially if they have been using aspirin for a long time for the purpose of treatment. Such patients may have severe complications after the flu. This category includes people with kidney, lung, heart problems, metabolic disorders, patients with immunodeficiency, with hemoglobulinopathies, with staphylococcal infection, as well as students and schoolchildren, who are constantly in the community.
Vaccination against influenza: contraindications
The main material for the manufacture of the vaccine is chicken embryos. Not every organism is susceptible to them, and there are a number of cases when a flu vaccine is not recommended. Contraindications are primarily to those patients who suffer from an allergic reaction to chicken protein. It is not necessary to vaccinate people during the period of exacerbation of chronic diseases. Vaccination is undesirable for two weeks after the final recovery, because the body is weakened and may react incorrectly.
It is not necessary to inoculate patients with progressive forms of neurological diseases, as well as with an allergy to influenza vaccines.
What is the flu?
The disease belongs to the category of acute viral infections, is accompanied by a general infectious syndrome in severe form and affects the respiratory tract. Not all patients realize the full danger of this disease. In some cases, the flu begins with a cough, fever and a runny nose, and can end with the death of the patient. Statistics show that annually about 40 thousand people from developed countries die from the flu and complications caused by it.
Types of the causative agent of influenza
The causative agent of the virus is divided into three independent types: A, B and C. The constant mutation of the virus, which leads to a change in its antigenic structure, leads to the fact that qualitatively new varieties of the influenza virus actively appear and multiply. The danger for the population is that the immunity to them in the human body has not yet developed, so the virus affects the patient and can cause unpredictable complications. The transmission of the influenza virus from a sick person is carried out by airborne droplets, which allows it to spread to all categories of the population.
Influenza A type instantly spreads over vast areas and is pandemic or epidemic in nature. Local spread of the influenza B virus type allows recording its individual outbreaks and taking timely measures. Sporadic outbreaks of infections cause influenza type C.
Benefits of Inoculation
The vaccine helps the body develop a permanent immunity, which will help to avoid getting infected with the flu. If even a vaccinated person has taken up an infection, then the disease goes on without complications and in a lighter form than those who refused to vaccinate. Specific prophylaxis is carried out by live and inactivated vaccines. The vaccine against influenza for children over three years old is of domestic origin. Imported vaccines, which have all the necessary licenses, are intended for children between the ages of 6 to 12 months.
The maximum amount of antibody is reached 14 days after vaccination. The annual vaccination is explained by the fact that the vaccine provides the body with short-term immunity (6-12 months). Vaccination should be carried out before and during the epidemic season.
Vaccines against influenza
Vaccines aimed at fighting the flu are divided into several types. The first is live vaccines. They are made from strains of the virus that are safe for humans. With intranasal administration, they contribute to the development of local immunity. Vaccination before the beginning of the epidemic period. Live vaccines vary depending on who they are intended for - children or adults.
People who are older than 7 years are assigned inactivated vaccines. It is a concentrated and purified influenza virus, grown on chick embryos and inactivated by UV radiation and formalin. Inactivated vaccines include flu-like liquid chromatographic, centrifugal and eluate-centrifugal.
Subunit and split vaccines have domestic and imported varieties. These include drugs such as Grippol, Agrippal, Begrivac, Vaxigrip, Inffluvac, Fluarix.
Refusal of vaccination
Increasingly, people refuse to vaccinate. This is explained by the fact that often after vaccination against influenza, unwanted reactions of the organism to the material occur. Illiterate introduction, poor quality of the vaccine or non-compliance with the rules after vaccination leads to complications. Another reason for not taking vaccinations is that parents think this is harmful to the health of their child.
Refuse can be from all vaccinations or from some specific. Refusal to vaccinate against influenza should be argued and notified about this decision of employees of the polyclinic.
There are a number of cases when medical workers confirm that it is undesirable to vaccinate against influenza. Contraindications relate primarily to the health of the child, when he suffered a trauma or is ill. But after the state of the baby is normalized, the vaccine still has to be done.
To refuse the vaccination, you must write a special application in two copies (one for yourself, and the second for a school, kindergarten or polyclinic). The application must be registered in the institution's documents journal, it must contain: a deciphered signature, a number, a document number, a seal. It is also worth remembering that the refusal of vaccinations is a decision to take responsibility for the diseases against which vaccination is carried out.
Consequences of refusal of vaccinations
Not always refusing to vaccinate the flu (sample - below) is the right decision by the parents. Preventive vaccinations are protected by law, and their absence makes life difficult for citizens. Thus, they are prohibited from traveling to countries that require specific vaccinations. Citizens may be temporarily denied admission to health or educational institutions, especially if there is a threat of epidemics or infectious diseases. In the absence of the necessary vaccinations, citizens have problems in hiring, where there is a risk of contracting infectious diseases. In other words, non-vaccinated children and adults are not allowed into the collective if there are suspicions of an epidemic.
Effects of flu vaccination
Vaccination against influenza, contraindications to which have already been thoroughly studied, may also negatively affect human health. It is about the occurrence of side effects. Before you do the vaccination, you need to go through the examination and consult with your doctor. The maximum caution should be exercised in the case of vaccination of children, pregnant women and elderly people. Vaccination does not save from all diseases (in this case from influenza) at all, but it at times reduces the possibility of infection. Untimely vaccination can lead to flu. But even then, the disease will be much easier to transfer than by giving up the vaccine.
After vaccination, allergic reactions and chronic illnesses can become aggravated. To avoid this, you need to warn the doctor about their availability. Children should be vaccinated only healthy, because even a slight runny nose during vaccination can turn into a child's insomnia, loss of concentration and reduced immunity. Also, you must follow the rules of care for the vaccination, in order to avoid local problems on the skin. If the organism somehow reacted to previous vaccinations, then the following should be abandoned.
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Greenpeace
I know that children under 7 years of immunity to the flu. and indeed preschool children rarely get sick with the flu. and older people can use folk remedies. hardening. sport. I always write to my daughters refusal of this vaccination.
Olga
I'm against !
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Tatyana Ulasko
categorically
Ice-cream
It makes no sense to vaccinate against one strain, but you can get infected with another one
Xenia Smyrnova
no, they did not put it, although the pediatrician suggested, but then she herself said that this new vaccine, it is not yet known how it will work, but they have a plan, but to this plan in general up to the lantern
TEMPERANS BRENNAN
last year refused to do - was sick no more than those who did.
this year, I do not know, I can try.
JOLLY ROGER
in the first year of life of children we did not do them with flu vaccinations.. did not consider it necessary.. they got so sick. were ill from January to April with all sorts of complications.. we thought we'd go crazy with impotence.. now every year in October we are vaccinated and do not get sick.. because the circle of communication is big.. viruses are full.. so it's up to everyone to decide ..
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OlKa
We refused.. . From one staff you will be attracted - you will be ill with others.. .
I'm generally against it!
malinina katya
And from what kind of flu vaccine?? and are you sure that this is the flu this year in our country?? and it was too late to do the inoculation, in the summer it was necessary to do it, but now it's cold, drafts, weakened immunity, only the child will get sick. I personally do not mind vaccinations at all, but I will not vaccinate against flu, neither myself nor the child ...
Laurus
I do not think that the flu vaccine is effective, because in the first kinds of influenza a million and no one knows what exactly will attack the country, secondly the flu virus is more powerful and faster than all mutates, ie, it means that the virus that you inhaled differs from that which you breathed out and, correspondingly to you, that you would have to save 100% either sit in a vacuum or run for a shot 20 times a day.
Tigrena
We are going to the daughter of the vaccine every year. She did not get the flu even once.
I think that nothing bad will happen, but it's worth insuring.
Ruslan Toroev
There is no need
Olka
Do not, now do not get vaccinated!
Irina Klimenkova
The first time you can try, and then decide whether or not to follow. once do. After all, each child transfers in different ways. I will do this year: if I fall ill, I will be ill without vaccination, and if not, I will do it on the trail. year. the main thing is to inoculate, when the baby is without a snot and a cough !!!
Lucille
And I do my son every year (from 2.5 years, as soon as I went to the kindergarten). The most paradoxical is that he never got sick with the flu, in spite of the fact that very many children in his group who did not vaccinate (and this is 70%) were ill. There were certainly colds, but without the temperature and other severe complications, we even stayed sick for more than 3 days and then for my personal comfort.. . although the pediatrician said that we do not need to take a sick leave either.
I do not know whether the vaccine influenced immunity, or that, but, as they say - a fact on the face :))
* Browneye Bunny *
in no case do not! because the child's vaccine will cause side effects in just a few days the child starts to hurt, in short, no kind of sense! Better let the winter frosts propiek arbidol... he raises and strengthens immunity !!!!
tamara kirshina
Every year I vaccinate a child. Last year did not instill - had been ill for 3 weeks!
Kolibry
I will not, we have an allergy, before 7 years did not get sick with the flu, fell ill only in grade 1, but quickly recovered and without complications, I have been doing prevention since the fall.
Is it worth it to put a flu shot against a child (4 years)?
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Just LANA
Everyone independently decides for themselves and their children. Whether the child carries this vaccine (if already done in previous years), nobody is sick in the family, the baby is healthy. And it is desirable to not get sick after the vaccination, but it is very difficult. I will not do mine, in our garden everyone who did fell out with the temperature. (((
Hope
At me a daughter almost 5 years and we always refuse this inoculation, t. To. There are many forms of a flu, and the vaccine is put from one what or.
Olga Torgachkina
You can set. only before the vaccination can not catch a cold and after a month. otherwise the immunity will be even lower than it was and the child will be ill all winter.
Alexander the Transfiguration
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Igor Ivanov
It's not worth it. All vaccinations are dangerous. Doctors do not do their children.
The child is injected with a few influenza bacteria, and if the body can not cope?
ZOV
And my daughter is 12 years old and still from the kindergarten, we REFUSE every year of vaccination and every year I make sure that she in comparison with those who have been sick less, and if everything is getting sick, everything goes in a lighter form.
Lena
Considering the epidemic. the situation in the country and the world - is worth it.
Hetzki the Evil Nekr
You can not STOP, but you can DO ...
Elena Rubtsova
I, too, refused, I do not really tolerate them myself, and if a child is allergic, especially not necessary, since the vaccine against the flu is made on the basis of chicken protein (at least we were the only ones brought)
