Is it necessary to vaccinate children? Does a child need to be vaccinated? What is a vaccination

After the vaccination has been done, you need to monitor the reaction of the child's body. Redness in the injection area and a slight increase in temperature - the reaction is normal.

When Any suspicious side effects are better to play it safe and consult a doctor. These include: a sharp increase in temperature (above 39), swelling of the face, rash, the injection site became inflamed, convulsions began.

After vaccination give your child more to drink, limit his contact with strangers, try to provide favorable conditions for the restoration of immunity.

Withdrawal from vaccinations

Temporary contraindication for vaccination is a weakened immune system.

Can't get vaccinated during the course of the disease or a few days after recovery. This may lead to a new disease.

To absolute contraindications include allergic reactions, and when vaccinated against whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria - also diseases of the nervous system.

Vaccinations - pros and cons

Currently, the problem of choosing whether or not to vaccinate is acute in society. There are people who sincerely consider vaccinations to be a universal evil and almost the main problem of children.

Conservatives, on the other hand, advocate mandatory vaccinations to keep our children healthy. Which of them is right, and what are the pros and cons?

Arguments and statements of opponents of vaccination:

1. The effect of vaccinations is not fully understood, how exactly the vaccine affects the body and why many vaccinated people still get sick is not known.
2. The vaccine can destroy natural immunity.
3. Vaccines contain highly toxic bodies that poison the child's body.
4. Vaccination can lead to cell destruction - cytolysis.
5. And animal advocates also single out such a reason as the use of animal cells in vaccines. Thus, the polio vaccine uses the kidney tissue of sick monkeys.
6. It is better to have many diseases in childhood and develop immunity by adolescence.
7. Russian drugs are ineffective, and foreign ones are outdated.

Proponents of Universal Vaccination:

1. Vaccinations against certain diseases, such as rubella, are lifelong.
2. The disease in childhood is fraught with death, so vaccinations are simply necessary.
3. This is illegal from a legal point of view, but it will be more difficult for an unvaccinated person to get a job in an educational institution, a kindergarten, or travel abroad. Having run around the authorities, you, of course, will achieve justice, but time will be lost.
4. The main cause of complications after vaccinations is not the quality of the medicine at all. Complications arise when the child's immunity is weakened after an illness or the drug was stored incorrectly.
5. Modern drugs provide, albeit not complete, but still protection of the body from various diseases.

About vaccinations for doubters – School of Dr. Komarovsky

Instead of a conclusion

Whether or not a child needs a vaccine is up to the mother to decide. If she refuses, she must understand that the entire responsibility for the health of the child lies with her.

In any case, parents have the right to know what vaccination is given to the child, its side effects, contraindications.

Not worth it to give your child into the hands of doctors who do not ask the mother about the presence of allergies, diseases. The professionalism of such people can be safely called into question.

It is these doctors who can accidentally "forget" to warn the mother about the long list of side effects from the drug and the effectiveness of protection, which is only a couple of tens of percent. And remember that you can get one shot at a time, not five in advance!

If you choose not to be vaccinated, stock up on laws, study them carefully and put them into practice.

Or you can take a simpler path, to the question of the district doctor about the reasons for the refusal, to say that dad / aunt / one of the relatives works as an immunologist, for example, and they know better. Usually there are no questions.

Anyway, do not experiment on your child.

Weigh all the pros and cons, analyze the statistics, ask the advice of knowledgeable people (constructive advice!), better than doctors, and only then make a decision.

To understand how dangerous vaccinations are, it is enough to mention the fact that for 10 years not a single doctor or the head of US pharmaceutical companies has dared to drink a mixture of standard additives found in most vaccines in the same amount, which, in accordance with the recommendations of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000, received a six-year-old child. And this despite the promised reward of over $100,000.

If this fact seemed unconvincing to you, read the following facts:

1. A one-month-old child weighing 5 kg receives the same dose of vaccine as a five-year-old weighing 18 kg. Newborns with immature, undeveloped immune systems receive 5 times the dose (relative to body weight) than older children.

2. International studies show that vaccinations are one of the causes of SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

3. Almost always, childhood infectious diseases are benign and go away on their own. In addition, they lead to the development of lifelong immunity, while vaccination immunity is only temporary, so there is a re-vaccination.

4. Lifelong immunity is then transmitted from the mother through the placenta to her unborn child, vaccination immunity is not transmitted through the placenta.

5. There are no scientific studies to determine whether vaccines actually prevent disease. Rather, the incidence graphs show that vaccinations were administered at the end of the epidemic period, when the disease was already in the last stage.

6. There are no long-term vaccine safety studies. Only short-term tests are carried out, where vaccinated subjects are compared with a group that has been injected with another vaccine. In fact, you need to compare with a group of unvaccinated.

7. Independent private studies (Dutch and German) found that vaccinated children get sick much more than their unvaccinated peers. If you stop vaccinating children, their health improves markedly.

8. The child receives not one, but many vaccinations. There are no tests to determine the effect of combined vaccines.

10. Children are vaccinated simply because their parents are being bullied. Immunization of children is the most profitable business for both vaccine manufacturers and doctors.

11. Babies who are only breast milk are injected with powerful vaccine toxins, which is contrary to any logic and science.

12. Vaccines contain heavy metals (mercury, aluminum), carcinogens, pesticides, live and genetically modified viruses, serum containing animal viruses and foreign genetic material, extremely toxic decontaminants and excipients, untested antibiotics, none of which can be administered without causing harm to the body.

13. Vaccines contain blood serum not only from chimpanzees and other monkeys, but also from cows, pigs, chickens, horses, and even human blood serum and tissues extracted from aborted embryos.

14. Deaths and permanent disability due to vaccinations are very common and are well known in the medical community. The government forbids doctors from disclosing this and linking such cases to vaccinations.

15. Most childhood infectious diseases have few serious consequences in today's world. Most infectious diseases are not only rarely dangerous, but they can play a vital role in developing a strong, healthy immune system. People who have not had measles have a higher incidence of certain skin diseases, degenerative bone and cartilage diseases, and some tumors, while those who have not had mumps have a higher risk of ovarian tumors.

16. Many doctors say that illness in childhood is needed to train the immune system. By suppressing these diseases, we leave the immune system undeveloped, causing various autoimmune disorders such as diabetes and arthritis, which are now epidemic.

17. In the US, post-vaccination complications are reported and the government pays victims millions of dollars in compensation. In the CIS countries, you are not compensated for anything, you will have to run to the doctors yourself and treat complications by buying expensive medicines.

18. The BCG vaccine (against tuberculosis) in America and Europe was recognized as completely ineffective and was abandoned.

19. Oral polio vaccine (OPV) causes polio and other neurological and gastrointestinal disorders in children.

20. The Hepatitis B vaccine, recently introduced, is not intended for children at all, it is a sexually transmitted disease vaccine that should only be given to promiscuous adults.

21. Tetanus serum contains both aluminum and mercury, as well as tetanus toxoid - any of these components can cause irreparable harm to the human body.

22. The measles vaccine is a vaccine that regularly causes serious complications after vaccination.

23. According to the results of various independent studies, especially the Dutch and the latest German, where vaccinated and unvaccinated children are compared, it has been established that vaccinated children are prone to asthma, dermatitis, allergies, hyperactivity, etc.

24. The impact of vaccines on a child's developing brain is very high and can lead to speech, behavior and even dementia. A significant amount of research has convincingly shown that the practice of vaccinating children can lead to severe brain damage through numerous mechanisms. Because a baby's brain develops rapidly from the third trimester of pregnancy to two years of age, it is at serious risk.

25. Vaccine manufacturing is the most profitable pharmaceutical business. Billions of dollars are being made by vaccine firms.

If you still decide to vaccinate your child, then do it as late as possible, because:

The entire period of breastfeeding of the child is protected by antibodies transmitted to him with mother's milk. And only six months after the last breastfeeding, this protection disappears! Then you need to take an immunological blood test for the presence of certain antibodies, and only after that you can be vaccinated (unless, of course, you decide not to vaccinate at all) against those diseases for which antibodies are not found in the blood.

The immunity of the child is finally formed only by the age of 6. And any interference (especially such a rough one as vaccination!) in this natural process can lead to irreversible consequences and affect the rest of your life. If you still decide to vaccinate your child, then it is better to start doing this after 5-6 years!

Additional Information:

Interview with Galina Petrovna Chervonskaya- a well-known virologist, candidate of biological sciences, an independent expert in virology, the author of four monographs on the problems of vaccination.

The 2016 film "VACCINED: FROM FALSE TO DISASTER". On the falsification of scientific research.

Hello dear readers!

Lena Zhabinskaya is with you, and today we will find out whether children should be vaccinated. I address my article to doubting mothers with their heads on their shoulders, who are looking for an answer to the question of how it is still better for a baby - to vaccinate or not.

Once upon a time, I was the same, and I was also looking for an answer to this question. I studied the ocean of information on this topic, all the arguments and counterarguments of opponents and supporters of vaccination, and now I have no doubts. I know where the truth is.

What is a vaccination

This is the introduction of a weakened (live vaccine) or dead (inactivated) virus into the body to produce antibodies and develop immunity to this particular virus.

Thus, by vaccinating a child, you thereby consciously organize the acquaintance of his body with one or another virus. The virus cells contained in the vaccine are not capable of causing a real disease. However, the immune system gets to know it, scans its cells and learns to neutralize it.

In the future, when meeting with a real wild infection, the immune system will already be prepared and will be able to fight back. As a result, a person either does not get sick at all, or suffers an infection in a mild form and without complications.

What happens if you don't deliver

If the baby is not vaccinated, he will be left without protection from dangerous infections. His body will not have experience with weakened versions of infections, and, accordingly, in the event of a sudden encounter with a real natural virus, it will be forced to fight on its own.

Who will win in this situation is a big question. In fact, it will resemble Russian roulette - lucky or unlucky. A really serious danger is not even the diseases themselves, from which vaccines are designed to protect, but their complications: severe bacterial pneumonia, meningitis, meningoencephalitis.

At the same time, the risk of developing such a complication in crumbs is quite high. Judge for yourself:

Personally, at one time I was very impressed by these figures and the stories of mothers who faced such complications in children and deeply repented that they had not protected them with vaccines at one time.

Who is against

It would seem that the need to be vaccinated and protect children from dangerous infections and their consequences is obvious to any sane person. But this is only at first glance. In fact, there is a whole anti-vaccination movement. His followers call themselves anti-vaxxers.

Deftly manipulating facts, distorting statistics and throwing around pseudo-scientific terms, they sow panic and fear around vaccination, telling fables about how a friend's wife of a brother's sister's friend's child became disabled after vaccination. Or that in the news I don’t remember when I don’t remember where they showed that vaccines are evil.

If you look closely at their arguments even a little, then they shatter into dust. Let's take a look at the most popular of them so that no one dares to fool you anymore, putting the life and health of your children at risk.

Measles, rubella, mumps and chickenpox are harmless childhood illnesses, and it is better to get sick with them.

To begin with, I propose to return to the top of the article and once again go over the table of complications that may accompany these “mild” diseases. The risk of earning these complications when meeting with a real virus in an unvaccinated child is not so small.

And where is the guarantee that your little one will not be that 1 out of 300 who will get deafness or blindness after a "childhood" illness?

If the disease can be prevented in principle, why get sick with it?

Vaccinations boost the immune system. You can't have too many at once. It's better to wait until it grows.

From the very first breath, the baby begins to actively explore the world around him. His immune system starts to work. When she has enough work, it's good. The baby comes into contact with thousands of antigens daily. They are everywhere: in the air, dust, food, drink, palms. The immune system is designed in such a way that it can effectively respond to many antigens simultaneously and simultaneously. And that's okay.

It's bad when there is nothing to react to. When a baby grows up in too sterile greenhouse conditions, the immune system, tired of idleness, begins to fight with anything. There is an allergy to dust, pollen, intestinal infections from a simple rattle.

In this regard, the five extra antigens contained even in a multicomponent vaccine do not constitute the slightest difficulty for the immune system, which is used to dealing with hundreds of antigens daily.

As for the desire to wait with vaccinations until he grows up, it is also not justified.

Read what vaccinations are given to children under one year old.

First, the doses of vaccines in preparations are selected in such a way as to ensure adequate production of antibodies at a particular age. Therefore, the closer you vaccinate to the timing of the vaccination calendar, the easier it is tolerable and better absorbed.

Secondly, illnesses are not ready to wait until your baby grows up. A person with an open form of tuberculosis can ride with you in the elevator. A grandmother can bring hepatitis B from a manicure, which is transmitted through close household contacts.

You can catch tetanus by simply scraping your knee in the yard or stepping on a rusty nail in the country. And if someone at the entrance got measles, then the risk of getting infected is almost 100%.

Thirdly, a child under one year old has a minimum number of household contacts, so there is less risk of getting ARVI during vaccination than a child who already attends a kindergarten, playground or development school. In any case, the risk of unpleasant consequences is minimal if the child is properly prepared for vaccination.

Vaccines contain poisons that poison the body.

Formaldehyde.

Included in DTP vaccines in the amount of 100 mcg. As a substance is present in nature and in the human body. In particular, one liter of human blood usually contains 2000 - 3000 micrograms of formaldehyde. Can an extra 100 mcg somehow significantly affect a person? Of course no.

Phenol.

Present in tuberculin as an antiseptic. Tuberculin is used in the Mantoux test.

It is also found in nature in its natural form and is produced in the human body.

When setting the Mantoux test, the amount of phenol is introduced, which is contained in 5-6 ml of urine anyway. In order for phenol to have a toxic effect on a child, the latter needs to be given 1000 Mantoux tests at the same time.

Aluminum.

Included in many vaccines in the form of aluminum hydroxide. It is a practically insoluble compound, that is, it practically does not enter the bloodstream.

That negligible amount, which with the vaccine is able to enter the bloodstream and dissolve, can change the rate by only 0.5%. That is absolutely imperceptible.

Merthiolate.

It is an organic mercury compound that is used as an antiseptic in the production of vaccines in multi-dose vials.

Mercury as a chemical element also exists naturally in nature, human tissue, air and water. And these are completely different types of chemical elements than the famous mercury vapors that scare everyone.

The amount of merthiolate in the vaccine is small. Numerous studies conducted by WHO experts and independent laboratories did not reveal the dangers of merthiolate.

Who benefits from the anti-vaccine movement?

There are entire industries that are adjacent to evidence-based medicine and compete with it for patients and their money. We are talking about homeopaths, healers, sonologists, etc.

The obvious financial interest of homeopaths is obvious, since the latter offer their supposedly homeopathic vaccines as an alternative to real ones. By whipping up a panic about the dangers and complications of vaccines, they are increasing their visibility and the cost of their services and drugs to supposedly “detoxify” vaccines.

Journalists and other literary figures make good money selling anti-vaccine books, pamphlets, and CDs.

Vaccination scandal stories sell well in the media on TV and print media and invariably attract public attention, which means ratings and advertising money.

Thus, the anti-vaccine movement is not a community of altruists who care about your child's health. This is quite a profitable business. Keep this in mind when someone around you starts campaigning against vaccinations and immediately figure out what the person is really achieving, and whether he really cares so much about the harm from the vaccine for your baby.

Church attitude

Believers are concerned about the attitude of the church to vaccinations. And the official position of the ROC is this: the church has nothing against vaccination.

There is a book "Orthodox View on Vaccination", published in 2007 by the chairman of the society of Orthodox doctors, doctor of medical sciences, candidate of theology Sergiy Filimonov and candidate of medical sciences Zakrevskaya V.A.

Also known is the case when in 2004 Patriarch Alexy II blessed mass immunization against influenza in St. Petersburg.

Consequences of mass refusals of vaccinations

With the help of vaccination, it was possible to practically defeat the terrible diseases from which people used to die without options. We have not encountered many diseases personally, and they seem to us to be a thing of the past. But it's not.

Let us recall at least the recent outbreak of polio in Ukraine, when children were urgently vaccinated unscheduled to stop the epidemic. And what about the measles epidemic in the Urals in 2016, when polyclinics worked seven days a week, producing emergency vaccinations? I will say more - more and more often cases of revealing the facts of tuberculosis in schools are covered in the news!

All this is a retribution for the decrease in the number of vaccinated people. Diseases have not disappeared anywhere, they are here, standing outside the door and waiting for a convenient hour to attack.

What do we end up with? Do children need vaccinations? They are not just necessary, but vital!

Take a last look at the photos of children whose parents did not protect them from terrible infections, did not vaccinate them, and ... make the right choice.

In the photo above, the consequences of polio. At the bottom - tuberculosis.

Your child is only yours, and only you are responsible for his healthy and happy future.

Lena Zhabinskaya was with you, see you soon on the blog.

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Should the child be vaccinated?

Hello dear readers! Today we will have with you a rather difficult topic for an article. It will be of particular interest to parents. And let's talk about - do children need to be vaccinated?

A little pre-history

To begin with, I will tell you my case: in April 2014, my family (me, son 13 years old, daughter 11 years old, son 8 years old, son at that time 3 months old) all had whooping cough. Surprisingly, all of us have previously been vaccinated against this disease, except for the baby. At first, the doctors guessed that it was ordinary bronchitis, tracheitis, but after three weeks they passed the tests, diagnosed whooping cough and sent him home to recover.

Treatment in the hospital did not help us at all, it only got worse. Fortunately, the baby survived, but the trouble happened on the 21st day in the hospital for an 8-year-old son - whooping cough provoked a severe epileptic attack, which he had never had before. Upon arrival home, we fought this disease for another 4 months, but I will say one thing, that it was very difficult to treat.

In the summer, in the process of working on the second issue of the Bereginya magazine, I accidentally met on the Internet with a pediatrician, a certified specialist Gumyarova Svetlana Alekseevna. We talked for a very long time, I asked questions that all parents often ask.

And I published our conversation in the form of an interview in a magazine called "At the pediatrician's appointment." Questions were discussed there: about nutrition, when to introduce the first complementary foods, how and when it is better to wean a child from the breast, do children need to be vaccinated? Definitely recommend to all parents with small children.

After a little thought, she asked Svetlana to watch the film "The Whole Truth About Vaccinations" - by Galina Tsareva, so that she would leave her opinion on this video. I was very interested in what she would say. I also asked her personal questions, for example:

• why did my whole family, vaccinated against whooping cough, get sick with it?
• could it happen that after the next calendar vaccination at 6 months my son became disabled? All these questions, as well as many others, Svetlana answered me by writing an article. I give the floor to Svetlana Alekseevna.

Do you get vaccinated?

Vaccinations are one of the most exciting and controversial topics, causing a lot of controversy among both parents and doctors. Should I vaccinate my child or not? How safe are vaccines? What happens if you refuse vaccination? And the questions can go on and on...

In this article, I will return to the topic of vaccinations again and try to highlight the most important points of vaccination. In expressing my opinion, I do not set myself the task of convincing the opponents of vaccination. And I'm not going to urge parents to vaccinate all children without exception. The main purpose of the material is to provide parents with the opportunity to make a conscious and informed choice - to vaccinate a child or not.

Disease or vaccination - which is more dangerous?

Initially, vaccination was aimed at combating extremely contagious and dangerous infections, such as smallpox. And after receiving positive results, doctors and scientists began to make efforts to eliminate as many infections as possible, against which vaccines could be created at all.

This was expressed in the expansion of the list of recommended vaccinations, and the expansion is planned to continue. As a result, the child is vaccinated not only against dangerous infections (such as polio, tetanus), but also against those that are simply planned to be suppressed. For example, measles and rubella (already included in the national calendar) or chicken pox (which is planned to be included) in childhood are usually well tolerated and rarely cause complications.

On the other hand, any vaccine can lead to the development of serious complications even in apparently healthy children. And although the risk of such complications, subject to a complete examination and taking into account possible contraindications, is quite low, it still exists. In principle, the risk of severely ill with the same rubella in a child is approximately equal to the risk of developing complications in him after vaccination against this same rubella. But why, then, are vaccinations generally prescribed against diseases that are not too dangerous for children precisely in childhood?

So, why are they vaccinated against “mild” childhood infections?

To "control" the infection and eliminate it. Alas, the old well-known and treatable diseases are quickly replaced by new and often much more dangerous ones. Therefore, I am personally against vaccination against chickenpox - this is an infection that is almost harmless to children, and vaccination against it is needed more for “convenience” and to exclude the sudden onset of the disease (on the eve of holidays, during exams, on holidays, etc.).

So that children do not get sick and do not infect adults, in whom childhood infections are much more severe. As an example, rubella vaccination is recognized primarily to protect women of childbearing age, because for them, infection with the virus during pregnancy often ends in miscarriage or the birth of a child with deformities.

To still avoid possible complications (measles or rubella encephalitis, etc.).

At the same time, the main part of vaccinations is aimed at preventing very serious and dangerous diseases - whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis. There are no other effective methods of preventing these diseases other than vaccination today.

And the more people around them who are unvaccinated (with an ever-increasing number of voluntary refusals, the presence of medical exemptions from vaccination), the greater the risk of your also unvaccinated child ever encountering this disease.

Of course, the risk of post-vaccination complications remains. But if all the rules of vaccination are observed, it is minimal, and, in my opinion, cannot be compared with the risk of getting an incurable infection. However, we are talking here about healthy children - for them the risks of post-vaccination complications are minimal. If the child is sick (he has an acute illness or an exacerbation of a chronic one), vaccination should be postponed.

Why Vaccines Don't Always Help

No vaccine can guarantee 100% protection against disease. And again the question is - why get vaccinated if the vaccine does not protect?

First of all, because there are no other effective methods of protection. In addition, properly conducted vaccination with exposure to the recommended intervals between re-vaccinations increases the reliability and durability of immunity. But the violation of the timing of revaccination (repeated vaccine injections) reduces immunity.

Do not forget also that it takes time to develop protective antibodies. That is, after the administration of the drug, immunity will form only after 2-4 weeks (and sometimes more), so it is not surprising when a child vaccinated against influenza at the height of an epidemic becomes ill with it 3-4 days after vaccination - immunity simply did not have time to form .

There is also the fact of a gradual decrease in the activity of acquired post-vaccination (after vaccination) immunity over time. So, the whooping cough vaccine practically does not protect adults from this disease, but whooping cough is dangerous specifically for babies (up to 4 years old), in fact, then no one vaccinates against it.

An adult with whooping cough in most cases “gets off” with a long, albeit rather painful, cough, but in young children it is often complicated by pneumonia, brain damage, rupture of blood vessels (under the skin, in the retina, brain, etc.).

But even if the formed post-vaccination immunity is not sufficiently active and complete for any reason, it will still protect against infection to some extent, and the disease usually proceeds easier after the vaccination.

"Horror stories" and the whole truth about vaccinations

And now I would like to sort out some common and frightening “facts” about vaccinations that are not always (or not completely) true:

You can get sick after being vaccinated. It is possible - but only after the introduction of a live vaccine containing live attenuated pathogens: measles, rubella, oral (drops in the mouth) OPV polio vaccine, intranasal (injected into the nose) influenza vaccine. Moreover, the pathogen in the live vaccine is weakened, and normally it should not cause illness, but a child with impaired immunity can get sick.

But now they are trying to completely abandon such drugs, and most of the modern vaccines used do not contain live pathogens. You can not get whooping cough or diphtheria after DTP - there are no live microbes; and as alternatives to OPV and live influenza vaccines, there are IPV (inactivated polio vaccine that does not contain a live pathogen) and inactivated or split influenza vaccines.

Again, they try to either not include such additives in the composition of modern vaccines at all, or their number is minimized. Yes, and the current level of ecology leads to the fact that such substances (salts of heavy metals, toxic preservatives) come to us not only and not so much with vaccinations, but with food and water.

Vaccines provoke autoimmune diseases. They provoke, and not only autoimmune, but in general any chronic diseases, contributing to their manifestation or exacerbation. But vaccines do provoke, that is, they are not the direct cause of the disease, but only serve as an impetus to its onset.

It is difficult to assess whether this disease would manifest itself without vaccination (including the same infections that can provoke autoimmune diseases), but with established disorders in the child’s immune system, it is definitely not worth vaccinating him.

Rights of parents regarding vaccination of their children

• You have the right to refuse vaccination completely. You and only you decide whether your child will be vaccinated.
• You have the right to receive additional information (about the composition of the vaccine, possible complications, contraindications, etc.).
• You have the right to vaccinate your child according to an individual plan, and not in strict accordance with the vaccination schedule. This plan can be developed for the child by an immunologist, or you can temporarily (or permanently) refuse to administer certain vaccines, having made only a part of the vaccinations.
• Before the vaccination, you have the right to additional consultations (by an immunologist - if your clinic has one) or other specialists, especially if there is an underlying pathology (for example, you should consult a neurologist about vaccinations if the child has a PEP or other neurological diagnosis).

And immediately before vaccination, the pediatrician must necessarily conduct a thorough examination of the baby. Ideally, the child should be seen by a physician who has been attending the child since birth and who is knowledgeable about past illnesses and other important features. Unfortunately, the number of doctors in our polyclinics is steadily declining, there is no permanent doctor at the sites, and long queues lead to superficial examinations.

• If a child is not vaccinated, they cannot be denied admission to a school or kindergarten. An exception is cases of epidemics and outbreaks of diseases (measles, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, etc.) in a city, region, country - then an unvaccinated child is temporarily not allowed into the team - until the epidemic subsides.

Conclusion

To the question - do children need to be vaccinated, I answer: vaccinations are important and vaccinations are needed, but only with an individual approach to the child!

If you think about the possible dangers and dangers of vaccinations, this is correct, and it only says that you are caring, cautious and prudent parents. Read this article, which provides recommendations from a legal specialist, on how to file a waiver of vaccination. Try to collect as much reliable information as possible, listen to different opinions, and then make an informed, thoughtful decision - whether to vaccinate your child or not.

Here, at this stage, we complete this article. Svetlana would like to express my deep gratitude for the time spent for the readers of our blog.

Dear readers, guests, parents, express your opinion on this issue. What do you think, or maybe one of you has your own instructive personal story, please share it in the comments, I think it will be important for all parents to know.

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Do children need vaccinations: arguments for and against. Should my child be vaccinated or not?

Perhaps, in our country it is impossible to find a person who has not done at least one vaccination in his life. In modern society, vaccination is generally accepted, and vaccinations for children are mandatory. But when their own child is born, parents begin to think seriously about whether or not to vaccinate the child, do newborns need vaccinations in the maternity hospital, is vaccination really able to protect the child from terrible diseases, or will it harm the baby more? However, before finding the right answer, you need to weigh all the arguments "FOR" and "AGAINST".

VACCINATIONS: FOR AND AGAINST

In an attempt to find the truth in the issue of "vaccination for children, pros and cons", parents are faced with diametrically opposed opinions of specialists in this field of medicine. Some experts, arguing their opinion about whether vaccinations are mandatory, insist that they are necessary and mandatory, others give weighty arguments against vaccination, insisting on the monstrous harmfulness of vaccination.

In my opinion, the truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle, and it will be up to you, dear parents, to decide whether vaccinations are mandatory for your baby. It is on you that the main responsibility for the health of your baby is entrusted, and not on the “aunt in a white coat” who invites you to be vaccinated or the “neighbor” who passionately dissuades her. Parents, not the head of the kindergarten, should decide whether or not to vaccinate a child. However, here is just the main difficulty - today most kindergartens practice refusals to admit children to an institution who do not have vaccinations appropriate for their age, despite the fact that they have no legal grounds for this. Putting parents before the choice, either get vaccinated, or engage in raising a child at home.

Whatever you decide, it is useful for you to first learn the arguments against vaccination and the arguments in favor of vaccination, to evaluate the pros and cons of vaccinations. Do not rush to conclusions, let your choice be balanced.

DO CHILDREN NEED VACCINATIONS: ARGUMENTS FOR VACCINATION

Even today, unfortunately, we are not immune from epidemic outbreaks. As for the recent past, literally 10-20 years ago, no one would have thought of abandoning vaccination, since vaccination protected a person from really dangerous diseases and viruses, and the risk of terminally and fatally ill was quite high. And most people thinking about vaccinations for children literally dreamed of a time when doctors would create the vaccines that exist today.

At the moment, such serious epidemics no longer occur, and it is worth noting that it is partly due to vaccinations. We are so accustomed to the idea of ​​"protection" from them that we can afford to neglect vaccinations. Nevertheless, dangerous viruses have not disappeared anywhere, moreover, they have become “stronger and more sophisticated”. They can be very close: for example, your colleague recently visited India, a passer-by “caught” a terrible disease in Africa, and a trolleybus passenger is a peddler of tuberculosis who recently returned from “places not so remote” ... Yes, what to fantasize, just remember these “amazing” sandboxes at playgrounds are a breeding ground for infection, where stray cats and dogs are regularly “marked”, where our children play, and some even try to taste the sand….

If you're still wondering if vaccinations are mandatory, then it's time to get familiar with what they protect against and how they can help in cases like this.

What is the meaning of vaccination? Why are newborns vaccinated?

The vaccine given to the baby is not able to protect 100% from infectious diseases, but at the same time, it can significantly reduce the incidence in children under one year old. Do not underestimate the fact that the younger the child, the weaker his immune system. In addition, if the baby gets sick, a previous vaccination will allow you to endure the disease in a milder form, eliminating or minimizing complications and serious consequences. As for large-scale vaccination (close to 92% of the country's population), it can be used to avoid global epidemics at the national level.

TO VACCINATE YOUR CHILD OR NOT: ARGUMENTS AGAINST VACCINATION

A good digging in the Internet resources, you can find competent, logical arguments against vaccination. As such an example, we can cite the arguments of the “oppositionist” of total vaccination, Dr. Kotok. He is a vocal opponent of mass vaccination, and makes arguments based on information provided in the scientific literature. In his opinion, children do not need vaccinations, and even more so for newborns, he will explain his position as follows:

1. Vaccinations for children contain too much risk of complications.

2. In our country, newborns get too many vaccinations.

3. Modern vaccines used for vaccinations do not justify the hopes placed on them to protect health.

4. In fact, the danger of those diseases that children are vaccinated against is greatly exaggerated.

And the following arguments against vaccination support this position:

1. DTP vaccine (for whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria). Its toxoids are sorted on aluminum hydroxide. The vaccine contains formaldehyde. For the consciousness of almost all vaccines, except for Tetrakok, the preservative merthiolate is used, - in other words, an organic salt of mercury. Without exception, all of the listed substances are very toxic in themselves, and doubly so for newborns. In addition, the dose of diphtheria toxoid contained in the vaccine administered to children is not standard (it is simply impossible to standardize it), that is, it is different even in the same series of the drug, from the same manufacturer. Such disparity is quite dangerous.

2. In accordance with the vaccination schedule in the Russian Federation, a child must receive 9 different vaccinations within a year and a half of his life. The very first is generally placed almost immediately after the baby is born (during the first 12 hours of life). It turns out that the child for the first 18 months of his own life should be in the “post-vaccination period”. That is, not quite healthy, and quite intentionally, and besides, legally! In addition, any vaccination depresses the children's immune system for the next few months, and more specifically, 4-6 months.

3. The 1990 case was revealing, but failed to force health officials to draw the appropriate conclusions. Massive diphtheria occurred in Russia, which fell ill with 80% of people vaccinated earlier and more than once, which did not prevent them from getting sick. In a large percentage of adults and children who receive diphtheria vaccinations, immunity is not developed in principle - this is a fact. At the same time, it is not possible to calculate or predict the justification for vaccination. There is also data from 1994, showing that a year after vaccination, about 20.1% of people were "unprotected", two years later - the threshold had already increased to 35.5% of people, and three years later - 80 were "unprotected", 1% vaccinated. This statistic, albeit indirectly, however, indicates that even after suffering from diphtheria, it is impossible to guarantee lifelong immunity from the disease. Moreover, it is not capable of guaranteeing such a vaccination.

4. Hepatitis B disease is a viral infection that affects the liver and is transmitted through the blood and other body fluids. Hepatitis B is not transmitted through dirty hands or mother's milk. As a rule, it is a disease of drug addicts, prostitutes, or patients who have undergone blood transfusion. There were official studies that showed that among newborns from 402 women carriers of this virus, only 15 babies became infected. Risk factors in these cases were preterm birth. As for the hepatitis B disease itself, once transferred, it gives either stable immunity, or even lifelong immunity. Completely and without any consequences from this disease, 80% of adults are cured, and this percentage in children is even higher.

Today, most independent experts advise parents, first of all, to familiarize themselves with vaccines, the consequences and risks associated with their use. And only after that decide whether it is necessary to vaccinate children, whether newborns need vaccinations. And, of course, we must not forget about elementary hygiene and nutrition for newborns - it is better than any vaccine to help the child maintain health and develop a stronger immunity to modern diseases!

Yana Lagidna, especially for MyMom.ru

A little more about whether children need vaccinations:

THIS IS WHAT I FOUND ON THE INTERNET, NOW I STUDY AND THINK ....

Something about vaccinations for newborns. Information for thought

Article added: 2009-02-06

Now many young parents are concerned about the question of whether newborn babies need to be vaccinated. This issue also affected our family, and therefore I began to look for information that would help me draw the appropriate conclusions.

“We are not in favor of or against vaccinations, we are in favor of the prudent use of vaccinations and the right of the child to be healthy. When parents think about vaccinating their child, they should not take the word of those who zealously advise them to get vaccinated. Since measures have been taken in Russia to provide economic incentives for doctors in the distribution of vaccinations, parents should be extremely vigilant in dealing with medical institutions of any kind. Particular attention should be paid to the actions of employees of maternity hospitals and children's clinics, as well as other institutions that perform similar functions.

In the maternity hospital

A newborn who has just been born does not need to be vaccinated, and his parents need the opportunity to make a well-informed decision about whether they will vaccinate their baby or not. However, despite this, the staff of the maternity hospital is in a hurry to vaccinate all newborns without parental consent. Babies are vaccinated against tuberculosis, known as BCG, and hepatitis B.

The most unpleasant moment in this action is that your child is undergoing some kind of procedure without your knowledge, and you are not even able to assess its harm or benefit. Moreover, they don’t even ask you anything, as if the medical staff of the maternity hospital has much more rights to the child than legal parents. These actions fit perfectly under the category of medical arbitrariness.

To prevent the irreparable from happening, parents must write a refusal to vaccinate their newborn child in advance and leave it with the head physician of the maternity hospital. Then you should insist on 24-hour joint maintenance and relentlessly warn all children's nurses and doctors every day that you refuse to be vaccinated. And, of course, if possible, it is desirable to be discharged from the hospital on the 2nd or 3rd day.

In Russia, economicencouraging physicians to providecoverage of the population with vaccinations was introduced from1993. The Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Russia decided to "introduce economic incentives for medical workers for the timely implementation and achievement of a high level of coverage with preventive vaccinations." Such measures have been very effective in achieving close to 95% vaccination coverage. But that is not all. In order for doctors to be able to “cover” the population more successfully, the lists of medical contraindications for vaccinating children were significantly reduced.

Vaccinations and relationship with the children's clinic

Regardless of where the birth took place, sooner or later, parents will encounter a pediatrician from a children's clinic and fall under vaccination pressure, since vaccinations begin at the age of 3 months in a children's clinic. If the decision on vaccination has not yet been made by the parents, they can write a refusal of preventive vaccinations, guided by the following reasons:

- an infant does not need to be vaccinated, because it uses the passive immunity of the mother, and its immune system is still immature;

- the start of vaccination can be postponed until the child is six years old, that is, until the maturation of the immune system is completed. Vaccination of a child whose immune system has not yet been formed has a devastating effect on the state of his body as a whole.

So, in order to protect yourself from excessive intrusiveness of health workers, parents must give a written refusal to vaccinate. On the basis of the federal law “On Immunoprophylaxis of Infectious Diseases”, Article 5, Clause 3 “When implementing immunoprophylaxis, citizens are obliged to: comply with the instructions of medical workers; confirm in writing the refusal of preventive vaccinations.

IMPORTANT: A vaccine given to a child who is allergic or predisposed to it can lead to anaphylactic shock!

How to decide whether to vaccinate your child

After the rear is protected, and the doctors do not pester the parents with the requirements to start vaccinating the baby, you can think about everything and make an informed, balanced decision. An informed choice can be made with access to complete information, and this is always difficult to do in relation to vaccination, since parents always have a lot of contradictory, incomplete and unreliable information at their disposal.

If parents are still thinking about vaccination and are faced with making a decision in its favor, or they do not have enough information to refuse it, it is necessary to try to carefully understand the issues that we will give below.

First, when making such a decision, one should not rely on the advice of a doctor who is interested in maximizing coverage of the population. Collect independent information. All vaccination studies were paid for by vaccine companies, so there is no credibility to them.

In addition to these studies, there are a number of independent studies against vaccination. These studies can be found in the medical library and on Internet sites. Parents are not immunologists or virologists, therefore, before making any decision, it is necessary to get acquainted with all the available pros and cons.

An important argument for deciding whether to vaccinate a child is information about lifelong and absolute contraindications to vaccination. If a child has diathesis or has a family history of allergies on the part of the father or mother, this is a lifelong contraindication to vaccination.

It should be especially noted that modern medicine has deliberately excluded allergies from the list of contraindications to vaccination. Today, a doctor can allow a child to be vaccinated even at the time of a pronounced allergic reaction. In such a child, any vaccination can cause anaphylactic shock and even lead to death.

An absolute contraindication to vaccination under 6 years of age is the presence of neurological disorders and perinatal problems in a child (PEP, prematurity, malnutrition, increased intracranial pressure, hypertonicity, dystonia, etc.).

And one more important argument - the presence of vaccinations is not a guaranteed protection against the disease. We have already talked about the fact that after a measles vaccination, a child can get measles. True, after vaccination, the disease will proceed atypically (i.e., with a distorted picture), and it will not be easy to recognize.

According to research carried out inGreat Britain, in a group of people of anythe number of cases of anyor disease is equal to the number vaccinated againstthis disease. Thus, in the groupwhere there were 80% vaccinated against any disease, the incidence of this disease was 80%, where it was 50% - it was 50%, and where 10% - 10%. This study proves that the vaccine does not save the child from the disease, he can get this disease with the same probability as an unvaccinated child.

Vaccination rules

If, as a result of collecting information, carefully weighing all the pros and cons, the parents decided to refuse vaccinations, then they have exercised the right granted to them by law.

If they decide to be vaccinated, then they should know that there are certain rules for vaccinating. Parents should, from the point of view of the consumer, be able to use the pharmaceutical product that is the vaccine. This is all the more important because the vaccine is not a harmless commodity at all.

Vaccinations must be given strictly according to indications., which is extremely important, because in terms of the effect on the body, the vaccine is equivalent to a complex heart operation.

Indication for vaccination is lack of immunity in relation to any disease. To establish this fact, it is necessary to pass an immunological blood test for the composition of antibodies and get a conclusion about which antibodies the child does not have.

Only by analysis you can prescribe this or that vaccination, which will allow the body to develop the “missing” antibodies. Vaccination against a disease to which immunity has already been formed leads to the destruction of this immunity, and the child will remain unprotected.

The vaccine should not be given if the child is sick or weak. In cases where the child is sick or teething, vaccinations should not be given.. They can be done after a month after the end of the disease or unfavorable physiological state.

Do not vaccinate even if the child has diathesis, since vaccinations can significantly increase it.

It is not recommended to vaccinate in the second year of a child's life. Back in the late 80s - early 90s of the last century, when parental leave was increased to three years and there was no need to send a small child to a nursery, the number of children who were not vaccinated for one to three years increased significantly.

It was to these mothers that immunologists addressed in popular TV programs of that time. They assured that children who did not receive a single vaccination in the first year of life should not be vaccinated until they are two years old. This was explained by the fact that in the second year of life, the child's own immunity begins to form, and any intervention in this process can seriously disrupt it.

An intervention such as vaccination was seen as a rather traumatic procedure. The main disadvantage of vaccination at this age is that vaccinations simply do not take root. The child's body does not give a sufficient immune response to the vaccine.

Therefore, doctors recommended postponing the start of vaccination until 2-3 years old, while authoritatively stating that a child who is breastfed and with whom the mother sits at home is protected no less than a child who received all vaccinations on time.

When the doctor doeslittlevaccination for the patienthe maintains the honor of the uniform, and does not take care of the health of the baby

It is not recommended to do more than one vaccination in one session. However, in reality, up to 4 vaccinations can be given to a child in one session. Usually this malicious sabotage is presented as concern for the convenience of the mother. “So that you don’t have to visit us twice, we’ll do everything at once!” - the nurse says cheerfully and cheerfully.

However, this action leads to a serious load on the immune system and significantly impairs the body's resistance. It is this situation that is the most dangerous, since the introduction of combined vaccines most often develops severe post-vaccination complications,

Vaccination is not carried out during epidemics and epizootics because in these cases, vaccination contributes to a significant increase in the areola of the spread of the disease. In other words, during a diphtheria epidemic, children should not be vaccinated against diphtheria in any case, since vaccination will serve as an additional source of the spread of the disease.

Vaccine selection. A vaccine is a commodity like any other, and you need to know how to use it. By agreeing to be vaccinated, parents have the right to familiarize themselves with the certificate and instructions for the vaccine that their child will be vaccinated with. In addition, the appendix to the vaccine must have a "List of contraindications" and "List of post-vaccination complications".

The medical institution where the mother is going to be vaccinated must provide all documents and lists in writing. Moreover, these documents should be presented in an accessible form for the uninitiated reader.

The mother should familiarize herself with them in a calm atmosphere and after a while make a decision. If there are no lists, then the vaccine is experimental, and no one really knows about the consequences of this vaccine. Getting vaccinated with an experimental vaccine is a big risk.

Do not vaccinate with a live vaccine, since this is not a vaccine, but a deliberate infection with a disease that a child in a free form might not have contracted. It is preferable to vaccinate with a weakened or killed vaccine.

Security guarantee. Each parent should know that, having received assurances of the safety of the vaccine, he has the right to ask the head of the children's department of the polyclinic for a letter of guarantee that her child will not suffer any post-vaccination complications over the next 10 years, i.e. during the validity period vaccines. And if the doctor assures of complete safety, then the medical institution must give the required letter of guarantee. If parents really receive such a letter in their hands, they can safely vaccinate!

Monitoring and checking the result of vaccination. After vaccination, it is very important to make sure that it is effective. Therefore, one month after vaccination, an analysis should be taken for the antibody titer in relation to the disease that was vaccinated. If antibodies were not detected, do not rush to repeat the vaccination, on the contrary, you should stop and try to figure out what is the reason for this result.

Update: October 2018

Currently, active anti-vaccination propaganda is being carried out in Russia. This causes great harm to the population, unfortunately, not everyone is aware of this, but succumb to the “ducks” of the media. This propaganda is already bearing its terrible fruit.

It started in the late 80s. As a result of the massive refusal to vaccinate at different intervals, epidemics of diphtheria, measles,. After all, it is those who are not vaccinated who become infected and carry the infection.

Vaccination is a method of preventing severe infectious (viral and bacterial) diseases by introducing antigenic material into the body, as a result of which immunity to this disease is formed.

The question of whether to vaccinate children is faced by every parent immediately after the birth of the baby. And there is only one answer to it - if there are no contraindications, if the child is healthy, then vaccinations must be done!

Often several vaccinations are given to children at once (DTP, for example, immediately includes 3 components). This is acceptable and not scary, although many are afraid of this, but often they themselves do not know why. For a healthy child's immune system, this is quite normal. This will be discussed in more detail below.

For some pathogens, stable immunity is formed immediately, for others, revaccination is required, that is, repeated administration of the antigen to maintain stable immunity.

A bit of history

Even in ancient times, inoculation was practiced in India and China. If an infectious disease was accompanied by the appearance of bubbles on the human body, then they took liquid from them and injected them into healthy people. Of course, in ancient times this was not always safe, and infections in this way often occurred, since the pathogen was not attenuated in the inoculum. But a start had been made.

If we are not talking about ancient times, then back in England it was noticed that milkmaids who fell ill with cowpox never subsequently suffered from smallpox. Edward Jenner also knew about this sign and decided to check it out. First, he vaccinated the child against cowpox, and after a while he was injected with the causative agent of smallpox. The child didn't get sick. This was the beginning of vaccination. But the term itself appeared much later, it was proposed by Louis Pasteur, he was also able to produce the first vaccines with weakened microorganisms.

In Russia, vaccinations appeared during the reign of Catherine II

Types of vaccines

1. Live vaccine - a live weakened microorganism acts as an antigen, these include vaccines against polio (in the form of drops), rubella, mumps.
2. Inactivated vaccine- either a killed microorganism or its parts, for example, a cell wall, acts as an antigen. These include vaccines against whooping cough, meningococcal infection, and rabies.
3. Toxoids - an inactivated (does not cause any harm to the human body) toxin that produces a pathogen acts as an antigen. These include vaccinations against tetanus and diphtheria.
4. Biosynthetic vaccines- obtained as a result of genetic engineering technologies, for example, a vaccine against hepatitis B.

The work of the immune system during vaccination

The immune system is the guardian of our body. She reacts to any alien agent. When such an agent (antigen) enters, the immune system is activated, a mass of biologically active substances is produced, the production of leukocytes by the bone marrow increases and antibodies are produced. Antibodies are specific for different antigens. Thus, these antibodies can persist for a long time or for a lifetime, and this allows you to protect the body from the pathogenic effects of this antigen. If the same foreign agent enters, the available antibodies will destroy it.

The principle of action of the vaccine is based on this - an antigen (a weakened or killed pathogen, or part of it) is introduced into the body. The immune system is activated, the production of antibodies to this pathogen occurs. These antibodies remain in the human body for a long time, protecting it from this disease. At the same time, a person does not get sick, since a weakened microorganism, and even more so a killed one or part of it, cannot cause the development of the disease. If in the future a person encounters the causative agent of this disease, then when an infectious agent enters the body, the available antibodies immediately attack these microorganisms and destroy them. Thus, the disease does not develop.

Routes of vaccine administration

Intramuscular

Most often used in the administration of vaccines. The muscles of the human body are well supplied with blood, which ensures an excellent speed of entry of immune cells to the site of antigen injection, and this ensures the fastest production of immunity. Distance from the skin reduces the risk of local side effects. Vaccinations for children under 3 years of age are administered in the anterior-lateral surface of the thigh. The introduction into the gluteal muscle is not recommended, since the thickness of the subcutaneous fat layer on the buttocks is large, and the needles for vaccination are short, in this case, subcutaneous administration will be obtained, and not intramuscular. There is also always a risk of getting into the sciatic nerve. At 2 years, but better after 3 years, it is allowed to administer vaccines into the deltoid muscle (in the shoulder area, in the projection of the head of the humerus).

Intradermal and dermal

Tuberculosis (BCG) and tularemia vaccines are administered intradermally, and a vaccine against smallpox was previously also administered. The traditional insertion site is the upper arm or the flexor surface of the forearm. With the correct introduction of the vaccine, a "lemon peel" is formed. It looks like a whitish spot with small indentations, like on a lemon peel, hence the name.

Subcutaneous

In this way, gangrenous or streptococcal toxoids are administered, and this method can also be used when administering live vaccines. Since in this case the rate of immunity production decreases, it is not recommended to administer vaccines against rabies and hepatitis B in this way. This method of administration also becomes preferable in patients with bleeding disorders, since the risk of bleeding with subcutaneous administration is much lower than with intramuscular administration.

Oral (by mouth)

Thus, according to the preventive vaccination schedule for children in Russia, a live polio vaccine is administered after 1 year. In other countries, typhoid vaccine is also administered orally. If the vaccine has an unpleasant taste, it is offered on a piece of sugar.

Aerosol (through the nose, intranasal)

One of the domestic influenza vaccines has this route of administration. It provides the appearance of local immunity at the entrance gate of infection. Immunity is unstable.

Simultaneous administration of vaccines

Some are frightened that in some cases several vaccines are administered simultaneously. But you shouldn't be afraid of it. Based on many years of experience, this does not bear any complications. The only vaccines that cannot be given at the same time are cholera and yellow fever.

Composition of vaccines

In the composition of the vaccine, in addition to the main active substance (antigen), there may be a preservative, sorbent, stabilizer, non-specific impurities and a filler.

Non-specific impurities include the protein of the substrate where the viral vaccine was cultured, a microscopic amount of antibiotic and animal serum proteins, if they were used in the cultivation of the necessary cell cultures.

A preservative is part of any vaccine. Its presence is necessary to ensure the sterility of the solution. The condition for their presence was set by WHO experts.

Stabilizers and excipients are not mandatory components, but in some cases they are found in vaccines. Only those stabilizers and fillers are used that are approved for introduction into the human body.

Everything related to contraindications for vaccination

After the question “what vaccinations are given to children?”, the next question for young mothers is “what are the contraindications?”. This issue is worthy of close attention, so we will consider all possible aspects.

At the moment, the list of contraindications is decreasing. There is a logical explanation for this.

• As a result of many years of observation and research, it has been found that infections against which children are vaccinated are much more severe in people who were previously contraindicated in vaccinations. For example, in malnourished children infected with tuberculosis, the disease is much more severe. Those infected with whooping cough have a higher risk of death. Rubella is much more severe in patients with diabetes mellitus, and influenza in patients with bronchial asthma. Forbidding such children to be vaccinated means putting them in great danger.
• Studies conducted under the supervision of WHO have shown that the post-vaccination period in such children proceeds in the same way as in healthy children. It was also found that as a result of vaccination, the course of background chronic diseases does not worsen.
• Thanks to improvements in vaccine production technology, it has been possible to achieve a significant reduction in dietary fiber and proteins that can provoke adverse reactions. For example, in a number of vaccines, the content of egg protein is minimized and is not even determined. This allows such vaccines to be given to children who are allergic to egg white.

There are several types of contraindications:

• True contraindications- these are those that are listed in the annotations to vaccines and are available in orders and international recommendations.
• False - they are essentially not them. They are inventions of parents or because of traditions. For example, for some reason, some doctors still consider perinatal encephalopathy a contraindication, although this is not so.
• Absolute - if they are, the vaccination, even if it is listed among the mandatory vaccinations in the calendar, the child is not vaccinated.
• Relative - these are contraindications related to true, but the final decision on vaccination is made by the doctor, comparing the risks of each of the decisions. For example, if you are allergic to egg white, you usually do not get a flu shot, but in the case of a dangerous epidemic situation, the risk of allergy is lower than the risk of contracting the flu. In other countries, this is not even a contraindication, they simply carry out preparations that reduce the risk of allergies.
• Temporary - for example, SARS in a child or an exacerbation of a chronic disease, after the child has recovered, the introduction of a vaccine is allowed.
• Permanent - they will never be removed, for example, primary immunodeficiency in a child.
• General - they apply to all vaccinations, for example, no vaccination should be given if there is a fever or the child is suffering from an acute illness.
• Private - these are such contraindications that concern only a few vaccinations, but other vaccines are allowed.

True contraindications to preventive vaccinations:

Adverse reactions

Vaccination is an immunobiological drug that causes the desired changes in the body in the form of developing immunity to serious infectious diseases, but there may also be side reactions.

Often, mothers are worried that the child's body temperature rises after vaccination or local reactions occur, but you should not worry if the reaction does not become prohibitive.

An adverse reaction is a normal reaction of the body, this reflects the process of developing immunity after a foreign antigen enters the child's body. If these reactions are not very pronounced, then this is even a positive point, indicating a high activity of the immune system. But their absence does not mean that immunity is not developed enough, this is only an individual feature of the reactivity of the immune system.

If a serious adverse reaction occurs, for example, a rise in temperature above 40 degrees, it is necessary to immediately inform the doctor about this. Since, in addition to helping the child, the doctor will need to fill out a number of documents and submit them to special authorities that control the quality of vaccines. If there are several such cases, the batch of vaccines is confiscated and carefully checked.

It is very important to keep in mind the typical nature of these adverse reactions. For example, if it is known that children after vaccination against rubella may have a slight swelling in the joints, then the exacerbation of gastritis during this period will have nothing to do with the vaccination. It is not necessary to “write off” various coincidences for vaccination.

The frequency of side effects is also known. For example, the hepatitis B vaccine in 7% of cases gives a local reaction, and the rubella vaccine in 5% - a general adverse reaction of the body.

According to the results of the control of the State Institute for Standardization and Control of Vaccines and Serums, during 8 years complications after the introduction of any vaccines was about 500 ! Whereas the death rate from the same whooping cough is 4,000 per 100,000.

anti-vaccination

Anti-vaccinationism is a social movement that challenges the efficacy and safety of vaccines.

For the first time they started talking about it at the end of the 19th century. In the modern world, the situation is exacerbated by commissioned media reports and many unreliable articles written by amateurs on the Internet. Most people, not understanding what is at stake, not understanding anything in immunology, judge the problem too confidently. "Infecting" others with their wrong judgments.

Let's debunk the myths of anti-vaxxers:

"Conspiracy of pharmacists and doctors"

For some reason, some believe that doctors and pharmacists are trying to make money on vaccines. But why are vaccines extreme? Any branch of the pharmaceutical industry or in any other area is somehow profitable for someone, but for some reason only vaccinations are “to blame” for this for some people. And the main goal of vaccine production was and remains - the prevention of dangerous infectious diseases, not profit.

Vaccine failure

The statistics say otherwise. Cases of the disease among those vaccinated are rare, and if the development of the disease occurs, then it proceeds in a mild form. But an unvaccinated person, faced with a carrier of infection, will get sick with a probability approaching 100%.

Let's remember what epidemics were all over the world, during the time of smallpox and how many people died. But the vaccine against it radically changed the situation. Only thanks to the universal vaccination of all for more than 30 years, cases of infection with the causative agent of smallpox have not been recorded.

Denying the need for vaccination

Without data on incidence, anti-vaccinators mistakenly think that these infections are quite rare. But this is also a mistake. The incidence of hepatitis B over 6 years of active vaccination of children has fallen from 9 per 100 thousand to 1.6 per 100 thousand. But at the same time, this figure is still high, because the number of parents who refuse to be vaccinated, according to the vaccination calendar, for children under one year old or refusing at all, very large. And this leads to the formation of a non-immune layer of the population, and these are potential carriers of these infections.

Vaccine adverse effects claim

One of the most ridiculous claims in this regard is that vaccines contain mercury compounds that cause autism. Let's start with the fact that in the human body you can find almost all the elements of the periodic table and mercury is not in last place there. We daily receive microdoses of such compounds with food. And in vaccines, this compound is present in even smaller quantities and plays the role of a preservative. Not to mention the fact that such exogenous factors generally cannot influence the appearance of autism in any way. Even a medical student knows more about the etiology of this disease than anti-vaccinators, because even minimal knowledge would be enough to not assert such nonsense. It is because of ignorance that such rumors about epilepsy and other diseases appear. Recall the typical adverse reactions - do not blame the vaccine for what would have happened without it.

Vaccinations destroy the immune system

Another stupidity from people who don't know how the immune system works. We have already said that the immune system is activated during vaccination, it is not worth repeating, I think.

Reminder for parents

• Swimming and walking are not recommended on the day of vaccination and the next day. Since hypothermia and contact with a large number of people can cause OVRI in a child. In the first 2 days, the immune system actively develops immunity to the introduced antigens and there is no need for an additional immune load, the immune system may simply not cope and ARVI will develop.
• If the child's temperature rises above 37.5, then you should give an antipyretic and consult your doctor.
• If there is a local reaction, then taking antihistamines may help, but before giving your child any medication, ask your doctor!
• At the time of the introduction of the vaccine, the child must be healthy. At least 2 weeks must pass from the end of the last illness. The child should be examined by a pediatrician and there should be normal parameters of the general analysis of blood and urine.

Preventive vaccination calendar for children in Russia

Vaccination against viral hepatitis B

Children from 1 to 18 years old, adults from 18 to 55 years old, not previously vaccinated

Measles vaccination

Children from 1 to 18 years of age inclusive and adults under the age of 35 years (inclusive), not ill, not vaccinated, vaccinated once, without knowledge of measles vaccinations

Rubella vaccination

Children from 1 to 18 years of age, women from 18 to 25 years of age (inclusive), not ill, not vaccinated, vaccinated once against rubella, who do not have information about vaccinations against rubella

Influenza vaccination

• Children from 6 months, students in grades 1 - 11
• students in professional educational organizations and educational institutions of higher education
• adults working in certain professions and positions (employees of medical and educational organizations, transport, public utilities)
• pregnant women
• adults over 60
• conscripts
• people with chronic diseases, including lung disease, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders and obesity