The cases of whooping cough The Secretary of Health is still increasing in the country, so far David Kershenobich It has confirmed 809 cases and this contrasts with the 60 cases that were presented last year for these same dates, we even have death records, what should we understand about this disease and how to protect ourselves?
The economist Dr. Martha Avilés, a pediatric infectologist said, explains that the most contagious bacterial diseases that exist, is given by the border bordetella pertussis, and that is that by a patient they can spread from 15 to 18 people around them.
What can we do to protect ourselves? The specialist shares that we must first understand that a vulnerable person is one who has never given coughing, a person who is not vaccinated, who has the incomplete scheme, or that has already spent a lot of time and has lost the antibodies or defenses generated by the vaccine for the vaccine and a reinforcement is required.
That is why the key is in vaccines. He emphasized that unlike other vaccines, for the people’s cough over time immunity is lost, so we have to vaccinate each time, to be sure that immunity is maintained at optimal levels of protection.
“Normally adults we no longer have immunity and we can re -infect ourselves and although in adults the picture is not serious, the problem is that being close to minors we can spread them and generate that chain. It should be noted that the serious picture of the Raine cough that often requires hospitalization occurs mainly in children under 3 years of age, even in children under 1 or two months of age.”
Low vaccination coverage
Avilés explains that these figures are probably seeing respond to the low vaccination coverage that were in previous years “when we left the pandemic, the PAHO warned us of this circumstance, a high risk of outbreaks of diseases protected by vaccines; although now the vaccination has increased we are not in adequate numbers to say that we are protected at the community level so as not to have the disease, to cut the transmission, we vaccinated above 95%, today the CENSIA (National Center for Childhood and Adolescence Health) reports 83% for the third dose of hexavalent vaccine, which is the one that contains a fault, “this affects notoriously for more cases to occur.”
Take care of childhood
The specialist explains that the people’s cough manifests itself with a “fierce cough”, as its name says, that is, acute and intense, it begins as a nonspecific flu, with nasal runoff, congestion and general discomfort, but from the second week, the cough instead of lowering continues, it also comes in blows or accesses, with up to 20 coughs that make it at the end of this access. “And that is dangerous, that they have an apnea event or breathing offenses, that is when they arrive at the hospital and you have to give oxygenation or intubation.”
In the little ones also makes them vomit, then, if a father observes that he spends a week of a cough and does not improve, it would be necessary to seek help, especially with the little ones or who do not have their complete vaccination scheme, so far 38 deaths have been reported with these outbreaks of whor cough from the beginning of the year.
Dr. Avilés concludes that there are many moments when we can protect ourselves against the Railway, since before birth, when a pregnant woman from the 20th week is vaccinated against the rag
At the public level right now the vaccine is available for vulnerable population (pregnant women, people of 4.6 and 18 months of age already 4 years old). From then on, it is achieved at the private level and it is recommended every ten years to achieve immunity with the “Capullo strategy”, that is, people who are around a minor are vaccinated not to put the minors at risk.
Let us successfully end the vaccination week
Dr. Carlos O’quinn, medical director associated with the MSD vaccines area, recalled that this week we have lived many initiatives to promote vaccination because what we want is to achieve the elimination of eleven diseases by 2030. This year’s motto is key “Your decision makes a difference”, and this is that this directly impacts the great shoots of diseases in Mexico and in the world.
Today we also see it with measles, which was determined as eradicated in the region of the Americas just on December 27, 2016, but following the pandemic and multifactorial problems we have seen different cases. He said that pharmacists are part of this fight headed by governments to reach the Mexican population and get to the control of diseases. “We must act collectively.”
He added that it is important that we are still looking for vulnerable populations, because vaccination is not exclusive to childhood, in addition to following the schemes that the Mexican card poses. He added that from 2025, the card was added Vaccination in children against HPV“This is extraordinary news, because it is expected to be able to eradicate by 2030 cervical cancer and other types of cancers related to HPV.”
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