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VACCINATION ANTICHICKEN POX
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  • It vaccinates against the chicken pox.
  • Vaccine of the chicken pox.

HOW DOES IT AFFECT THE CHICKEN POX

The chicken pox fond of almost the whole infantile population, with a major complications index in 13-year-old-year-old and major minors.
In the adult it can be more serious since the appearance pneumonia varicelosa, 1 of every 400 cases and it can be mortal.
In pregnant women it endures the risk of congenital chicken pox and of late fetal chicken pox of high mortality.

VACCINE OF THE CHICKEN POX

The current vaccine antivaricelosa is effective in 75 - 95 % opposite to any form of the illness. The universal vaccination is preferable to strategies directed to high-risk groups.

The Spanish Association of Paediatrics from the year 2003 proposes his administration in a dose between the 12 and 15 months, simultaneously with the Triple Viral, but in different injection point. It is advisable to vaccinate all the capable children before 13 years. The vaccination has just be approved in Spain, inside the calendar vacunal, in children between 10 and 14 years.

The American Academy of Paediatrics recommends to vaccinate all the children to whom the illness has not given between the 12 and 18 months of age. The biggest children will have to be immunized to the first opportunity with only one dose. The biggest 13-year-old healthy children to whom the illness has not given will have to be immunized by 2 doses in an interval from 4 until 8 weeks.

ADVANTAGES OF THE VACCINATION

To diminish the economic and social costs of the chicken pox. The parents can lose working days and the children from 7 until 10 days of school. The vaccine is effective between 70 and 90 % to prepare the illness.
In any case if it is not effective to 100 %, in case of affectation in a vaccinated child the chicken pox will be very light, it will have less injuries, less fever and will recover more easily.

REACTIONS FOR THE VACCINE OF THE CHICKEN POX

The secondary reactions to the vaccine are, in general, light and they can include:

  • Reddening of the area of injection.
  • Fever (12 %)
  • Pain and inflammation in the place where it was applied by not major duration of 48 hours (2 %)
  • Fatigue, sickness, fever or morning sickness
  • Cutaneous eruption, this the vaccine can happen up to one month after applied and last several days, in 1,5 %.

CONTRAINDICATIONS OF THE VACCINE

The persons with weak or shaken immune system and the pregnant women must not receive it.

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Writing: Medical equipment   Update: June, 2009


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