Vaccination for flu

Any infection, certainly, warn easier and more cheaply. The world yet has nothing better than preventive inoculations. Certainly, it is possible to use a vaccine and during an epidemic of flu. But immunity will be developed in two weeks when the help can not be necessary. Therefore do inoculations now, not putting them off.

What it is necessary to know about vaccine prevention of flu:

1. 10 days are required on average for the development of immunity.

2. If epidemic is officially declared, it does not mean at all that 100 % of the population of this region will be ill at once; the person can be ill later in a month or even more after the "official" beginning of epidemic.

3. Vaccines contain not one but three stamps of a flu virus that can save both in the first and in the second wave of a flu epidemic.

4. Modern inactivated (that is not containing alive and even the whole virus) vaccines cannot cause disease. Even if a person  catches a "wild" virus right after inoculations strengthening of the disease will not occur.

5. Vaccination should be spent in two steps with an interval of 1 month. If the  scheme of vaccination is not completed the efficiency is  below a full rate approximately in 4 times. It is naturally that two injections always worse and less conveniently than 1 injection.

6. The vaccine against flu does not protect from other respiratory infections. For this purpose there are medical vaccines- Bronchomunal or Ribomunil.

7. Even for healthy children there is an increased risk of hospitalization in the consequence of transferred flu. As for the age, children  are vaccinated with  Begrivak, Vaxigrip and Influvak from 6 months. The scheme depends on a vaccine, age and history of the previous inoculations against flu.

Children at  the age of  9 years, not taken vaccines against flu before, receive two inoculations with an interval of  1 month (0,25¼½for  3 year-old  children and  younger, 0,5¼½ - 3-8 years).. Children from 9 years and adults have one doze of a vaccine (0,5¼½). This scheme corresponds to recommendations of the European Commission and the American Advice on Practice of Immunization (ACIP, CDC, USA)
Only Vaxigrip corresponds completely to this scheme. According to 2003 CDC encourages vaccination of children at the age of 6 till 23 months for the lack of contra-indications and continues to insist on vaccination of children at the age of 6 months with chronic frustration of respiratory or cardiovascular systems, chronic frustration of metabolism (including diabetes), kidney dysfunction and children receiving long therapy by aspirin.

And still...

It is easier to be protected from flu with preventive measures than to treat it.

• the world Organization of Public health services (CART), analyzing data of a complex system under the control over epidemiological conditions, can give the recommendation on stamps, included the structure of a vaccine which should correspond to a circulating virus in a coming season.
• Groups which vaccination is aimed at: children, people of an advanced age chronically sick and also those who is in close contact to these categories.
• Vaccination is also recommended to people working in the sphere of household services and all those who does not want to bear pain.
• Efficiency of vaccination against flu makes 75-90 %.

To win flu is possible if you know everything about this disease and its consequences and also by means of vaccination of the population.

Vaccination helps to prevent and be protected from flu. For achievement of greater effect it is necessary to make training campaigns. Doctors, nurses, drugstores workers play a leading role  by leading  consultations, answering phone calls, dispatching letters.

There are 3 types of influenza vaccines.

1.  Vaccines of the first generation have appeared at the beginning of 40th .They are made on the basis of killed or neutralized viruses of flu. Possessing high efficiency these vaccines have a number of essential lacks.
2.  Vaccines of the second  generation have the most important particles of a destroyed virus for the immunity. It helps to minimize considerably undesirable reactions at preservation of high efficiency of vaccination

But for today this type of vaccines nevertheless has a lot of contra-indications for application:

• sharp disease;
• bronchial asthma;
• adrenal glands diseases;
• nervous system diseases;
• chronic diseases of easy and top respiratory ways;
• cardiovascular insufficiency and hypertonic illness of II and III stages;
• illnesses of endocrinology system;
• illnesses of blood;
• pregnancy.

3.The third generation vaccine appeared in 1980. It contains only two fragments of a virus. Owing to the high efficiency and a small number of by-effects, the given vaccine can be applied for children since 6-month's age.