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Vaccine Side Effects

We at Biogetica choose to take the middle path and present the facts exactly as they are. Our doctors prepared these posts to answer the most pressing questions parents have today about raising healthy children. This post is a follow-up on the Immunity post by Dr. Gauri Mane on Vaccine Side Effects.

Do Vaccine Side Effects Form Part of Vaccination Programs?

This niggling concern is present in most of us every time we give our children or ourselves a shot. As with any medication, vaccinations can have side effects. Vaccines undergo constant monitoring for their safety. The decision to not immunize a child can be risky. It could cause your child, and anyone who comes into contact with them, to contract a potentially fatal disease.

While all vaccines can cause side effects, they are usually mild and do not last very long. Consult your doctor if you have any doubts about a particular illness or suspect a side effect.

Side effects that are common include:

Inflammation of the injection site such as pain, swelling, and redness.

Mild fever

Shivering

Muscle pain

Generalized weakness, fatigue, and fatigue

Headache

If your child is unwell after vaccination, here are some tips to help you.

The most common side effects of injections in infants and young children occur at the injection site. The most common side effects in babies and young children are at the injection site.

Swelling

Redness

Nodule or a small lump of hard material.

You don’t need to take any action. These symptoms will usually disappear within a few days. Try to keep your child cool when they develop a temperature. Make sure your child is not overdressed and that they drink plenty of fluids. Instead of giving them a shower, sponge them on or use a fan. After consulting with your pediatrician, you can give them liquid paracetamol and ibuprofen.

The writer

Dr.Gauri Mane holds a B.H.M.S. degree from the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in Mumbai. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and was the top student in her class. She is a licensed Homeopath with more than 4 years of clinical experience, both in Homeopathy and Allopathy.

She also has experience as a research coordinator for several clinical studies. She also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital and Healthcare Management (PGDHHM), obtained from the Symbiosis Institute of Pune. She is a Certified Nutritionist and Dietitian.

Your Child’s Immunity

This series is about the questions parents ask themselves regarding the best way to raise children “naturally”. Biogetica takes the middle path and wants to tell the truth. Our doctors prepared these posts to answer the most pressing questions parents have today about raising healthy children. Our first post comes from Dr. Gauri Mane discusses Immunity and Misconceptions about Vaccines.

Myths and misconceptions surround the topic of vaccination. Each parent wants their child to develop the strongest immunity possible. For decades, many misconceptions about vaccinations have been perpetuated due to a lack of understanding of the process of vaccination.

Combination Vaccines

Most people believe that multiple vaccinations can “overload” the immune system of a child. The concern began to surface when the childhood immunization program expanded to include additional vaccines and some vaccines were combined to form a single injection. Studies have shown that the combination of recommended vaccines is not more likely to result in adverse reactions than if they were administered separately.

Statistical Effectiveness

Unvaccinated individuals are not the only ones who can be at risk when a rare disease, like measles in a particular area, is on the rise. Some vaccinated people will also get sick because no vaccination is 100 percent effective. In an outbreak of disease, vaccinated people are more likely to get sick than unvaccinated. It is not that vaccines are ineffective but rather because so few people avoid vaccination.

As an Example, Chickenpox

Some diseases can be reduced by improving hygiene and nutrition. The sharp decline in disease and mortality rates can be attributed to vaccines and not nutrition and hygiene. If hygiene and nutrition were sufficient to prevent infectious disease, the chickenpox rate would have declined long before the advent of the varicella vaccination, which wasn’t available until the middle 1990s.

Need for Caution

Also, it is advised that you should not administer a live vaccination if your child has weakened immunity. Live vaccines contain the virus or bacteria that they are supposed to protect you against but in a weakened or inactivated form.

Your child should not receive live vaccines such as (tuberculosis) and (MMR) if you:

Your child may be taking steroid tablets at high doses, or in lower doses with other drugs.
Your child is currently receiving chemotherapy, or radiation therapy for cancer treatment or has received these treatments in the past six months.
Your child is taking immunosuppressive drugs after an organ transplant
Your child has undergone a marrow transplant and completed all immunosuppressive treatment within the past 12 months

The Writer

Dr.GauriMane holds a B.H.M.S. degree from Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in Mumbai. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and was the top student in her class. She is a licensed Homeopath with more than 4 years of clinical experience, both in Homeopathy and Allopathy.

The following parts of this series explore the effects of vaccines as well as how to boost immunity naturally in children.