IMMUNIZATION

in #health7 years ago

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Immunization is the use of vaccines in the prevention of diseases in a given population.

The main aim of immunization is the prevention of disease. Public health officials aim to immunize at least 70% of a given group of people to break the infection cycle of a disease thereby providing ‘Herd Immunity’ for the unimmunized part of the population.

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Depending on the type of disease and it’s causative agents, different vaccines can be used.

Vaccines itself are substances which when introduced into the body provokes antibodies formation to fight against an infection.

Vaccines to cure a particular disease are made mostly from the causative organism of that disease. The organism might either be killed or attenuated (weakened).
It is important for vaccines to be maintained in their original and recommended state as change in certain parameters might unstabilize vaccines bringing about drastic effects which may include causing the disease being prevented.

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Certain factors which affect success rate of immunization includes

  1. Previous infection.

This may alter the response of an individual to an inactivated vaccine.

  1. Route of immunization

Vaccines have manufacturers recommended route e.g intranasally, intradermally, orally etc which must be followed according to achieve optimal results.

  1. Timing

interval between doses are based on both theoretical and vaccines trials. The resulting recommendations must be adhered to.

  1. Choice of vaccines

Some vaccines gets activated slower than the incubation periods of some diseases. These types of vaccines must be administered before exposure to the disease.

The state of recipients of vaccines should also be noted. Pregnant women and people with compromised immunity are not to take all kinds of vaccines.

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.. the drastic effect gotten from improperly kept vaccines could be anaphylactics not the main disease itself

It can be, if the vaccine used is a live vaccine

I am not sure which country you are from but do you know much about the vaccines a baby gets at 9 months and 12 months? What are they for? And which new ones have been added in the last 10 years? I am in the States?

Not sure how it’s done in your country and the prevailing disease over there. But this is the basic immunization done in my country for that age group. I’m in Nigeria
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DTP (Diptheria, Tetanus and Perturbsis) it’s multidose
Hib- Haemophilus Influenza type B vaccine
OPV- oral polio vaccine.
Booster- is a subsequent dose given after the initial immunization

Hope this helps :)

Thank you very much! I will let you know what I find out on my end. If we have additional vaccinations maybe you can give me some cool research science data and opinion.

You’re welcome.
Look forward to hearing from you again.
Can’t wait to see what you find out.

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