Minggu, 26 Februari 2012

Immunisation myths

The following myths and facts about immunization

1. Immunizations can cause disease would be prevented.
Fact: It is impossible child from disease germs

a weakened or dead.
2. If all the other children are immunized, automatic children not immunized will be protected.
The fact is: if one child did not receive immunization, there are likely many other children, too, eventually spreading the disease without being able to overcome.
3. Immunisation is not 100 percent effective, so in vain to give immunizations.
Fact: in the medical world, things rarely work 100 percent. However, technological developments have prompted the current immunization rates reaching up to 85-99 percent.
4. The reaction may be hurting the child immunization.
Fact: It is usually a reaction that appears to be mild, such as fever, redness pain injected just at the place, until the rash is mild. Infrequent seizures or severe allergic reactions.
5. Provided the child healthy, active, and eat nutritious food, children do not require immunization.
Fact: the vaccination is given so that children stay healthy, not make the child healthy. The goal is to protect children from disease.
6. If the child is not 100 percent healthy, the vaccine should not be given.
Fact: It turns out in the body that even mild infection, the vaccine can still work.
7. At the vaccination series, if one was late to be given, must be started again from scratch.
Fact: this is not true. Deuteronomy or booster can still be given from the late given alone, not from the beginning.
8. Autism is caused by the MMR immunization.
Fact: already there are 17 research projects carried out did not prove this relationship. Even the research that says that relationship turned out to be engineered, and the lead researcher, Dr. Wakefield, investigated by the British Board of Physicians.

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