Routine vaccinations of children are regulated by the national calendar of preventive vaccinations. Children should be vaccinated against dangerous diseases in order to protect them from possible complications or mortal danger. At three months, the baby is vaccinated against several infections at once, thereby increasing immunity and providing reliable protection to the body.
What diseases are vaccinated against?
As children grow up and have more contact with the outside world, the risk of infection increases significantly.
At the age of three months, the baby will have to undergo a complex and responsible preventive measure: vaccination against several types of infectious diseases.
- Whooping cough is characterized by damage to the respiratory tract, intractable coughing attacks and spasms. It occurs in an acute form and is fraught with numerous complications.
- Diphtheria affects the upper respiratory tract and is highly toxic. Negatively affects the cardiovascular and nervous systems, kidneys. Diphtheria toxins pose a major threat to life.
- Tetanus is transmitted when the tetanus bacillus gets from the ground onto damaged skin. Characteristic symptoms are convulsions, suffocation, and central nervous system damage. Infection is fatal.
- Poliomyelitis, which causes viral damage to the spinal cord. The resulting pathologies lead to irreversible paralysis of varying severity, the patient becomes deeply disabled.
- Hepatitis B affects the liver, has a long course and is transmitted through contact with blood. The advanced stage of the disease leads to cirrhosis of the liver. In the absence of contraindications, the first stage of vaccination is carried out in the maternity hospital.
- Haemophilus influenzae (HIB) is a group of viruses caused by Pfeiffer's bacillus. Inflammations are localized in the respiratory regions and central nervous system and are characteristic of childhood. With severe damage, purulent foci and sepsis of internal organs may occur.
Haemophilus influenzae infection was recently included in the list of vaccinations and is not considered mandatory. Your pediatrician may recommend vaccinations to boost your body's immune defenses.
Is it worth getting vaccinated at 3 months - all the pros and cons
It should be understood that in our time resistance of any infections to antibiotics is very often observed and the frequency of outbreaks of especially dangerous infections is growing more and more every year. All this is happening due to the massive refusal of people to vaccinate their children. You need to clearly understand and realize the seriousness of the problem.
There are diseases that are very difficult to tolerate and require complex treatment with many medications.
As is known, excessive use of medications negatively affects the liver, so it is worth considering what is better: introducing a colossal amount of chemicals into the body and, perhaps, not saving the body, or periodically administering minimal doses of vaccines prophylactically. Therefore, whether to vaccinate or not is a purely individual choice; all the pros and cons are listed below.
All in favor:
- This is protection against infections that can be fatal at any age. Although this is not always complete protection, the risk of infection after vaccination is minimal.
- If suddenly an infection does occur, the course of the disease will be much easier and the risk of mortality will be reduced.
- The immunity of an unvaccinated baby is a priori weakened, and he will be more prone to any diseases, unlike a vaccinated one.
- Vaccination is carried out to prevent the occurrence of epidemics and, therefore, unvaccinated children pose a threat to a healthy society.
"Against":
- Vaccines, like any pharmaceutical drug, have their own number of side effects. Unpleasant moments include local reactions after direct administration, an increase in temperature, and some more serious consequences.
- There may also be individual intolerance of the child to individual components of the drug, or allergic reactions.
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