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- Vaccine of the virus of the hepatitis B.
Vaccine that protects the individuals against the hepatitis B, a serious illness that causes inflammation and damage in the liver, and that can drive to a hepatic cirrhosis, hepatic insufficiency or hepatic cancer. Approximately of 5 to 10 % of adults infected by the virus of the Hepatitis B it becomes carrying and has an infection along his life.
The adolescents and children who become infected have more probabilities, considering his age, of supporting the infection for the long time and of being able to transmit the illness.
The vaccine of the hepatitis B is one of the immunizations recommended in the childhood.
At present the legislation related to the immunization is developing to the virus of the hepatitis B (VHB) in many countries.
The vaccine of the hepatitis B is administered in three injectable doses.
If the mother is a bearer of the VHB, the child will need to receive the first dose in 12 a.m. later to the birth.
Also it will be necessary to administer also the antibody of the Hepatitis B.
Two following doses will be administered according to the criterion of the pediatrician.
If the mother is not a bearer of the VHB, the child can receive the first dose in any moment, up to the 4th or 8th week of life. If it is administered just after the birth, the second dose is administered in 1 ó 2 months and the third one in 6 months. For the children who do not receive the first dose until 4 a.m. or 8 weeks, the second dose happens in 4 months and the third one in 6 to 18 months. In any 2nd and 3rd case, the doses are administered together with other routine immunizations of the childhood.
The babies who receive the series of immunization to the VHB are protected opposite to the infection by hepatitis B not only along the childhood, when the risk of the infection is the highest, but also of adult. The elimination of the risk of infection for VHB diminishes consequently the risk of hepatic cirrhosis, of hepatic insufficiency and of hepatic cancer.
All the more people are immunized opposite to the hepatitis B, major will be the possibility of eradicating this illness.
Most of the children who receive the vaccine do not experience any problem as a consequence of the same one. Sometimes there can happen minor, such problems as reddening or inconvenience in the place of the injection. The serious problems associated with this immunization are very rare.
- Any illness more serious than a cold
- If after a dose of the vaccine of the hepatitis B an intense allergic reaction happens, any other dose must not be administered.
SYMPTOMS AND CARE AFTER THE IMMUNIZATION
- To observe and to treat the minor such symptoms like fever, discomfort or febrícula.
- You doubt about a possible previous infection (for VHB).
- You doubt on if delaying the vaccine in some specific case.
- Moderate or serious adverse effects that appear after the injection.
- Other doubts related to the vaccine.
