Children's vaccination knowledge parents should know

When vaccinating children, you must pay attention to the child's physical condition. If the child feels unwell, the vaccination cannot be carried out, otherwise it will cause great harm to the body. Also, it should be noted that after the vaccination, if the child has a high fever, you cannot choose medication to relieve it at will. So what are the things parents need to know about pediatric vaccination? Many people do not understand it, so let's introduce it in detail below.

Parents should know about children's vaccination knowledge:

1. The significance of vaccination

Some infectious diseases, such as measles, mumps, whooping cough, typhoid fever, etc., can provide lifelong immunity after contracting them once (you will never get the disease again in your life). This is because when a person is sick, the body produces a specific immunity to the pathogenic microorganisms of the disease, which is antibodies. When encountering the invasion of these microorganisms again in the future, the antibodies will eliminate them. For the health of the next generation, the country has spent a lot of manpower and material resources on this. Microbiologists have processed certain bacteria, viruses or their toxins in a special way to reduce their toxicity and create biological products that are non-pathogenic. When these are then inoculated into the human body, they can stimulate the body to produce corresponding antibodies, allowing people to gain immunity and no longer be infected with certain infectious diseases. Even if they do get infected, the symptoms are very mild and the recovery is good. Therefore, vaccination is very important.

Types of vaccinations

There are generally seven types of vaccines listed on children's vaccination certificates: BCG vaccine, polio vaccine, DPT vaccine, measles vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine, Japanese encephalitis vaccine, and meningococcal vaccine. Not listed on the vaccination certificate are vaccines for diseases such as chickenpox, hepatitis A, pneumonia, influenza, hemorrhagic fever, mumps, rubella, and rabies.

1. Planned vaccines:

The state stipulates that there are only five types of vaccines that are included in the immunization program and have unified immunization procedures, namely BCG vaccine, polio vaccine, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus vaccine, measles vaccine, and hepatitis B vaccine. Children must be universally vaccinated with these five vaccines, and the costs of vaccination are borne by the government; some provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities have added meningococcal and Japanese encephalitis vaccines on this basis.

2. Unplanned vaccines:

In developed countries, family doctors provide advice and choices for vaccinations. In view of the current situation in my country, experts suggest that the following factors can be used as reference:

⑴. Is there any infectious disease epidemic in the local area?

⑵. Have you been vaccinated before? Except for the influenza vaccine, which only has a one-year protection period, most other vaccines have a relatively long protection period and do not need to be repeated.

⑶. Whether the applicant belongs to the key protected group. For example, the key protected groups for influenza vaccine and pneumonia vaccine are the elderly over 65 years old, children under 7 years old and the infirm and sickly people; the key protected groups for hepatitis A vaccine are children who have not been infected, catering industry workers, medical staff who frequently come into contact with hepatitis A patients, and people who travel frequently and whose food hygiene cannot be guaranteed.

⑷. Are there any contraindications to vaccination? The instructions for use of each vaccine list contraindications, which indicate the circumstances under which the vaccine cannot be administered.

⑸. Whether you are in an epidemic area. For example, the hemorrhagic fever vaccine generally only needs to be vaccinated for susceptible adults who live in or are going to travel to epidemic areas.

After understanding the knowledge parents need to know about pediatric vaccination, parents should pay attention to these situations when vaccinating their children. During the vaccination process, they should also pay attention to whether the tools are sterilized to avoid affecting the child's body. Moreover, after vaccination, if the child has any poor health in the short term, it should be relieved in time.