Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease caused by three kinds of viruses. Dangerous that in the case of illness in the part of the sick, irreversible paralysis of the respiratory muscles that lead to death or paralysis of the extremities (often lower ones) that make a person disabled is developing. Before the invention of an inoculation against poliomyelitis from this terrible disease many children died. The last polio epidemic was recorded in the mid-forties in the US and it was stopped precisely by the massive use of the vaccine. Since then, the disease has lost its mass, but this is only due to the presence of a layer of the vaccinated population, since the virus itself has not disappeared and constantly persists (is) in the nasopharynx and intestines of a person. That's why vaccinations against polio are so necessary.
Even if a person has had polio, heall the same it is necessary to be vaccinated, as after the disease immunity develops only to one form of the virus. Only inoculations against poliomyelitis are able to form immunity against all three types of viruses.
Modern medicine uses the maximumsafe vaccinations against poliomyelitis, or on the basis of an inactivated (killed) pathogen, injected subcutaneously, or containing a live but significantly weakened pathogen introduced through the mouth. They are called abbreviated IPV and OPV, respectively. In Russia, OPV (oral poliomyelitis vaccine) is most often used, as it gives the most stable and full-fledged immunity. There is a strictly defined national immunization schedule (vaccination calendar), according to which vaccinations against poliomyelitis are carried out. Usually it is vaccination at 3, then at 4.5 months and 6 months. Then comes the period of revaccination at 18 months and again at 20 months. The last revaccination is done after reaching the age of 14 years.
Complications after vaccination against poliomyelitisoccur very rarely and are most often associated with an allergic reaction to the components of the vaccine. With timely correct treatment, they quickly stop. There is a fear (especially this issue is raised by mothers under the influence of speculative speculation in the media) that vaccination can make a child disabled or even cause death. But the figures suggest that the polio vaccine causes the disease only in 1 of 2 and a half million cases, and even then the disease proceeds in a lubricated, mild form. Against this background, the risk of getting a natural, so to speak, polio course is several dozen times higher.
However, considering even this insignificantly smallthe possibility of poliomyelitis, all children must undergo a thorough medical examination before vaccination. If there are reasons to assume the weakness of the immune system, the doctor can give a medical guide from a vaccination against poliomyelitis or in some cases use IPV.
Parents need to remember that, despitenegative statements about vaccinations on the part of individuals and often very far from medicine people and the populism of the mass media coming from them on the occasion, vaccinations should be made necessarily, as the harm from them is artificially inflamed and the complications after vaccination against poliomyelitis are much more rare than actually risk of contracting the polio virus and getting, at best, irreversible persistent paralysis.
In addition, there is an order of the Ministry of Social DevelopmentThe Russian Federation, which allows not to take in children's preschool institutions children who are not vaccinated against poliomyelitis properly. So if a child is scheduled to be sent to a kindergarten, then he will have to have a polio vaccine in any case.
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