Vaccination

Vaccination

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  • Date Submitted: 02/20/2009 5:08 AM
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VACCINATIONS – SUMMARY OF KEY INFO

NHS schedule:

8 weeks
Dtap/IPV/Hib and PCV (Diphterhia, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis (whooping cough), Inactivated Polio Vaccine, Haemophilus influenzae and Pneumococcal

12 weeks
Dtap/IPV/Hib and Men C (Diphterhia, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis (whooping cough), Inactivated Polio Vaccine, Haemophilus influenzae and Meningococcal C

16 weeks
Dtap/IPV/Hib Men C and PCV (Diphterhia, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis (whooping cough), Inactivated Polio Vaccine, Haemophilus influenzae, Meningococcal C and Pneumococcal

12 months
Hib/Men C (Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) and Meningococcal C)

13 months
MMR and PCV (Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Pneumococcal)

3-5 years
DTaP/IPV or dTaP/IPV (Diphtheria or low dose diphtheria, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis, Inactivated Polio Vaccine pre-school booster)

3-5 years (can be given earlier)
MMR and PCV (Measles, Mumps, Rubella)

14 years
dT/IPV (low dose diphtheria, Tetanus, Inactivated Polio Vaccine booster)

Other possible: BCG and Hepatitis B

Halvorsen, R (2007) The truth about vaccines, Gibson Square

5 in 1 - Pediacel

Diphtheria

• Illness caused by the poison created by the bacteria
• Immunisation protects against the worst effects of the poison
• One of safer immunisations
• Side effects: redness, pain and swelling at site of injection
• Contains aluminium (can cause a painless nodule which last for weeks or months at site of injection)
• Part of 5 in 1, not available separately
• At least a third and possibly a half of all adults in UK are not immune, people could die if it returns.

??

BCG

• 49% to 64% effective
• Live vaccine

Tetanus

• Poison in contaminated soil
• Very rare but consequences potentially severe (1 in 5 of those ill die)
• Does not endanger the entire population, only those at risk.

?? who are those at risk??

Polio

• Europe free of polio since 2002
• Back to IPV (killed polio vaccine) in...

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