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Importance of Immunizing Your Child

Importance of Immunizing Your Child. Child Development Unit 5: Health and Safety. History of Vaccines. A vaccine= Introducing a weakened or dead form of the disease into your body so that your immune system learns how to fight it back. Then your body can fight the real form.

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Importance of Immunizing Your Child

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  1. Importance of Immunizing Your Child Child Development Unit 5: Health and Safety

  2. History of Vaccines • A vaccine= Introducing a weakened or dead form of the disease into your body so that your immune system learns how to fight it back. Then your body can fight the real form. • People started inoculating themselves around 200 B.C. after they realized people who survived the smallpox outbreak never got it again. • First vaccines were made of a live virus from infected material, which caused people to actually get the full blown disease

  3. Vaccines may cause Autism? • Some researches, in the fight to find the cause of autism say that immunizing your child may cause autism BUT it is VERY important to immunize your child: • Since the invention of vaccines the life expectancy of a human was 47 years. Today it has increased to 77 years because of these life saving medicines. • Vaccines have helped to virtually wipe out many major diseases

  4. Miracle of Vaccines • Vaccines work! They may be the single greatest medical discovery in history! • Vaccines have helped to virtually wipe out 12 major infections from the modern world: • Chickenpox Polio • Diptheria Tetanus • Invasive H. Flu Typhoid Fever • Malaria Yellow Fever • Measles Small Pox • Pertussis Hepatitis B • Pneumococcal Disease

  5. ChickenPox • Before 1995, the chickenpox was a right of passage for all kids. • The disease caused itchy red bumps on the skin and was spread through the air • Most cases were minor, but serious cases could cause inflammation of the brain • Most kids were left with scars from the disease • Before the vaccine there were 11,000 hospitalizations and 100 deaths each year!

  6. Diptheria • Bacteria that effects the nose and throat • Spread through the air and by sharing items • Creates a toxin that produces a thick, gray or black coating in the nose, throat or airway, which also effected the heart and nervous system • First vaccine was in 1913 • There are still 5,000 deaths world wide for those who don’t receive the vaccine

  7. Invasive H. Flu • Bacteria spread through coughing • Not in any way related to the regular flu • Can lead to bacterial meningitis (brain infection), pneumonia and swelling of the voice box, infections in the entire body. • First vaccine in 1985 • Still 2-3 million cases in the world which cause 450,000 deaths of children

  8. Malaria • Parasitic infection of the liver and red blood cells • Can be minor like the flue or severe causing seizures, coma and fluid buildup in the lungs causing death • Spread through mosquitoes • Still 350-500 million cases worldwide killing about a million children in Africa.

  9. Measles • Highly Contagious Viral Disease of the respiratory system that is spread through the air. • People develop brownish-red skin rash which tells us it is more serious that a cold • Complications can cause death • Measles mortality dropped from 871,000 to 454,000 between 1999 and 2004 because of the vaccine.

  10. Pertussis – Whooping Cough • Very serious cough for children • Spread through the air • Mucus is so thick that the coughing can cause them to choke on it and die. • 10-20 deaths per year in the USA • 50 million deaths world wide

  11. Pneumococcal Disease • Infection spread through the body and usually seen as ear infections • 90 types of the disease • 200 deaths of children in the US each year • 1 million deaths worldwide

  12. Polio • Deadly infectious disease • Usually infected through touching stool of infected person • 95 percent of cases have nearly no symptoms • Can cause flu like symptoms, paralysis and loss of control in limbs, stiffness in joints • Vaccine became medical miracle for millions of people • First came in 1955. Disease has virtually disappeared!

  13. Tetanus • Enters through skin wounds • Once developed it creates a bacteria that can lead to poisoning the nervous system and manifests as Lockjaw, and spasms of muscles

  14. Typhoid and Yellow Fever • Spread through water, food or mosquitoes • High fever, Headache, stomach pains and weakness. Jaundice associated with yellow fever. • 17 million cases and 600,000 deaths of typhoid world wide • 200,000 cases and 30,000 deaths of yellow fever per year

  15. SmallPox • Virtually disappeared from the Earth since 1979, some fear that a new more deadly form may appear and cause another plague • Fever, vomiting, spots on the skin that break open and spread the virus into the air

  16. When to Immunize Hep-B : Hepatitis B DTap: Diptheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis Hib: Influenza Polio: Polio PCV7: Pnemococcal Conjugate Infections MMR: Measels, Mumps, Rubella Chickenpox: Chickenpox!

  17. Records • Check with your clinic to make sure your baby is getting immunized on time. • Make sure you ask your clinic to give you a record card with all the dates of your baby’s shots each visit • Children must have this card in order to be admitted into any school or day care facility

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