Vaccination is one of the safest and most effective ways to protect against highly contagious diseases (such as measles, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and polio).
How Vaccinations Work:
Vaccines work by stimulating the immune system to produce antibodies that work on:
- Fight infection and help the person recover.
- Preventing the person from getting sick in the future.
- Vaccines do not cause disease to form these antibodies.
Vaccination safety:
Before vaccinations are authorized to be given to children, they are extensively tested to ensure they are safe. Most parents' concerns about vaccines are based on misinformation rather than evidence. If parents decide not to give a child the vaccination, they are not only putting their child at risk of serious or fatal disease but others. around the child for infection.
Delaying vaccinations:
The vaccination takes weeks after it is given to the child to form antibodies that protect against diseases, and by delaying the specified doses, the child is exposed to infection that could have been prevented by making sure of the vaccine date.
Side Effects for Vaccination:
Vaccines often don't cause any side effects, but they can cause:
- Redness, mild swelling, or soreness where the needle was given.
- mild fever
- Mild rash.
- Headache or body aches.
Most of these side effects occur within a day or two of getting the vaccination, but they can occur one to two weeks after the injection for some vaccinations such as (the chickenpox vaccine or the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine). Sometimes vaccinations cause more serious side effects such as (a severe allergic reaction), but these serious side effects are very rare.
Vaccinations for Infants and Children:
Hepatitis B vaccination: Hepatitis B can cause liver problems or liver cancer in the long term.
Tuberculosis vaccination: Tuberculosis usually affects the lungs, and it can affect other parts of the body such as the bones, joints, and brain.
Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccination: Vaccinations to prevent these three different diseases are given together in one dose. Diphtheria causes a thick coating in the back of the throat that can lead to breathing problems. Tetanus causes muscle imbalances. It leads to difficulty feeding and breathing, and whooping cough causes severe coughing and pneumonia.
Polio vaccination: Polio causes muscle weakness and pain and leads to permanent paralysis.
Vaccination against Rotavirus: Rotavirus causes severe diarrhea in children and infants, causing them to lose a lot of body fluids and exposing them to dehydration.
Haemophilus influenzae type (B) vaccination: Haemophilus influenzae infection causes infection of the skin, throat, joints, or tissues around the brain.
Pneumococcal vaccination: Pneumococcus is a germ that can cause infection in the lungs, ears, blood, or tissues around the brain.
Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (Viral Trio) vaccination: Vaccinations are given to prevent these three different diseases together in one dose. Measles causes a rash, fever and cough and can lead to long-term complications with the lungs, ears, or brain. Mumps also cause swelling. glands in the cheeks, and it can lead to long-term complications in the brain or testicles, and German measles causes fever and rash, and if a woman gets it during pregnancy, her baby may be born with a birth defect.
Vaccination against chickenpox: Chickenpox causes fever, sore throat, and rash, and some children can develop complications and develop lung or brain infections.
Hepatitis A vaccination: Hepatitis A causes fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, abdominal pain, jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes), dark urine, and complications such as acute liver failure and death.
Meningitis: It causes inflammation of the membranes of the brain, and it also causes fever, severe headache, nausea, delirium, and coma, and may lead to death. In younger children, the symptoms may be different and include persistent crying, lethargy, lack of movement and not feeding, and may not be accompanied by a fever.
Seasonal influenza vaccination: Influenza causes fever, chills, muscle aches, cough, or sore throat. Immunization with previous vaccinations is carried out according to the date specified for the age of the child, according to the national vaccination schedule.