Vaccines and Immunization

Vaccines and Immunization

What is a vaccine?

A vaccine is a type of medicine that can increase the strength of our immune system so it helps to destroy or suppress the pathogen if it has not come into the body before.  It uses your body’s natural defenses to build resistance to specific infections and makes your immune system stronger. Vaccines are designed to prevent disease, rather than destroy a disease once you have caught it.

Vaccines train your immune system to produce antibodies, just as it does when it’s exposed to a disease. Vaccines contain only killed or weakened forms of germs like viruses or bacteria therefore they do not cause the disease or put you at risk of its complications. Most vaccines are given by injection, but some are given orally (by mouth) or sprayed into the nose.

Lots of diseases that occur as a pathogen have vaccines so some diseases are almost forgotten because of the vaccine. Some of them are:

Two shots help protect children against diphtheria: DTaP a Tdap. Both also help protect against tetanus and whooping cough.
Five doses of the DTaP shot and a Tdap booster shot are recommended for children and preteens by doctors as the best way to protect against whooping cough (pertussis).
 Three doses of the hepatitis B shot are recommended for children by doctors as the best way to protect against hepatitis B.
 HPV vaccination is recommended at ages 11-12 to protect against cancers caused by HPV infection.
Two doses of the MMR vaccine are recommended for children by healthcare providers as the best way to protect against measles, mumps, and rubella. 
Two doses of the meningococcal shot called MenACWY are recommended for preteens and teens by doctors as the best way to protect against meningococcal disease.
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Two doses of the MMR shot are recommended for children by doctors as the best way to protect against measles, mumps, and rubella.
 Four doses of the polio shot for children are recommended by doctors as the best way to protect against polio.
 Two or more doses of a rotavirus vaccine are recommended for children by doctors as the best way to protect against rotavirus.
Five doses of the DTaP shot and a Tdap booster shot are recommended for children and preteens by doctors as the best way to protect against tetanus.

Vaccines are very useful. But sometimes it has some adverse results. It depends on your age, health, or other natural things. The side effects that do occur are usually mild, and may. 
include:
  • Redness, swelling, or pain where the shot was given
  • Fever
  • Vomiting

  What is Immunization?



Immunization is the process whereby a person is made immune or resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration of a vaccine. Vaccines stimulate the body's own immune system to protect the person against subsequent infection or disease. The vaccine
 is a one way for immunization but no the only way. There are lots of things that can help with immunization. In my opinion, we should focus on those things. They are:
  •  Dietary patterns
  • Environmental conditions
  • Mental health 
  • Life style
  • Social conditions 
     
In my opinion, if you can consider those things, you can protect from many diseases although have a vaccine or not against a disease. As an example, Lots of cancers haven’t vaccines but we can’t hide from them. SO WHAT CAN WE DO? We must do some essential things. They are the things that I explain above. Not only that but Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), Chikungunya, Dengue, Cytomegalovirus, HIV/AIDS, Hookworm infection, Leishmaniasis, MalariaRespiratory, Syncytial Virus, Schistosomiasis also haven’t vaccines.

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