The vaccination card It is a fundamental tool to guarantee the Health of children, since it allows precise control of the necessary immunizations to prevent diseases graves.
The Dr. Aviles Roblespediatric infectologist, emphasizes the importance of keeping the card updated, ensuring that each dose is applied to increase its effectiveness.
What is the importance of the full vaccination card?
The Dr. Martha Avilés Robles It highlights the great importance of having the vaccination card complete. Through an interview, the specialist with bone marrow transplantation in children explained this and other details of vaccination in babies.
Here the key points about why it is important:
- The best prevention strategy: Vaccines are one of the best, if not the best strategy we have to prevent diseases, as well as their serious manifestations or complications.
- Insured protection: Turning to see the vaccination card and make sure that the child has complete vaccines is the best way in which a father can ensure and control that his son is vaccinated and protected.
Importance of vaccination by the Ministry of Health:
- Prevention of serious ways and medical complications: Vaccines prevent serious forms of diseases, avoid hospitalization, death and the need for mechanical ventilation. They also prevent the disease as such.
- Health investment: Having complete vaccination schemes and putting all the extra vaccines that can be, will always be the best health investment.
- Safety and proven efficacy: Vaccines have years of experience and evidence that support their safety and efficacy. The first thing that is evaluated of a vaccine is to be safe.
Can you complete the vaccination scheme being larger?
If for any reason a dose was lost or delayed, no problem, The schemes can be completed, Although later, even complete and accelerate.
Dr. Avilés Robles emphasizes that vaccines are safe, well tolerated and with Few side effects frequent, which are usually minor, such as pain or redness at the site of application, general discomfort or fever.
In summary, having the full vaccination card is essential to protect children from diseases, especially their serious manifestations and complications
Do vaccines have side effects?
The most common or frequent side effects that the specialist highlighted are:
-- Pain at the application site.
- Redness at the application site.
- Inflammation at the application site.
- Fever.
- General discomfort.
- In young children, transient irritability because they cannot always express that their arm hurts.
Dr. Avilés Robles emphasizes that vaccines are well tolerated and that their side effects They are generally minor.
What are the myths that are associated with vaccination?
It is also important to mention what is not true about side effects, and it is believed that there is association with certain diseases, but how true this is?
The doctor clarifies the following:
- Association with Autism or ADD (Attention deficit disorder): Dr. Avilés Robles is emphatic that there is no association and no evidence that can associate vaccines with autism or ADD.
- They cause respiratory diseases or flu: It is false that vaccines cause respiratory diseases or give you flu for vaccinating.
- They cannot be applied to children with flu o Moquitos: This is a common myth. The doctor clarifies that a child can be vaccinated who has a little moquitos. Unless it is a serious illness, a mild cold does not prevent vaccination.
- They cannot be applied to children who are receiving antibiotics: Dr. Avilés Robles explicitly mentions that a child who is receiving antibiotics can also be vaccinated
Is there Covid-19 vaccine for babies?
Dr. Avilés highlights the relevance of having a vaccine available for babies. In Mexico, much of the population has already received the corresponding vaccine for the Covid-19 virus, but what about babies?
The specific vaccine mentioned by the doctor is one of Messenger RNA prepared by Pfizer, which is updated to adapt to the most frequent variants of the virus, similar to how influenza vaccines are updated.
Currently, this vaccine It can only be acquired at the private level in Mexico; That is, it is not the vaccine provided by the government and the vaccination scheme for children varies according to age:
- For little ones of 6 months of age at 4 yearsas they have never been vaccinated, an initial scheme of three doses is required.
- If for some reason they already had a previous dose (which is considered unlikely in this age group), they would only require two doses.
- The dose of the vaccine varies for the different age groups; 6 months to 4 years has a different dose than 5 to 12 years already that of over 12 years.
Dr. Avilés reiterates that this vaccine is very safe and effective to prevent the disease.
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