Vaccine for Chicken Pox
These days' many people are aware of the vaccination. Vaccination starts from 4-5 days after the birth of baby. Vaccination makes him safe from the microorganism present inside the body or present in the environment. Chicken pox is very common disease; everybody may have it in their childhood or some people suffered later in their life.Need of a chicken pox vaccine
- Chicken pox is very contagious disease i.e. it can spared through contact. Children below age 12 mostly targeted by the virus.
- It is completely curable diseases but complexity can be occurred in new born and adult. Patient can faced problem like swelling of brain, inflammation in lungs and bacterial or viral infection on the skin.
- Chicken pox infected child is not allowed to go to the school until sores and blisters will be dried. Daily schedule of parents as well as child get disturbs. We can avoid all this by vaccination.
Who need vaccination?
It is not mandatory to get vaccine but vaccination can prevent your child from infection of the virus and you can avoid complications that can create after infection.
- Children below age of 12 and adults
- The persons that are working in healthcare and day care centers
- Teachers, who comes in a contact with many students
- School and college students
- If person is going out of station or out of country
Vaccination for adult
- Vaccination contains anti-viral antibodies. If person get infection of the chicken pox virus then antibodies inside our body destroy the virus.
- Adult should take blood test before getting vaccine against chicken pox virus. If he/she vaccinated in childhood then anti-viral antibodies will be present in his/her body because most of the time children are vaccinated in their childhood.
- If person is not identified vaccinated through blood testing then immediately he /she should get vaccine of chicken pox because accidentally if he/she come in contact with the chicken pox patient then person could get infection of virus
- Chicken pox in adult is more dangerous than in children, therefore it is benefited to get chicken pox vaccine before infection.
Safe
It is studied in United State that Chicken pox vaccine is safe but very less exceptional side effects are seen. Like pain and redness at the site of injection and fever. In some adult little rash on skin occurred near to injection spot.
Avoid vaccination ;
- avoid vaccination to pregnant women
- adult or children with weak immune system
- Person having allergy of antibiotics like neomycin or gelatin
- Steroids consuming person
- Person who have received blood transfusion
- Children getting treatment of aspirin
Success of vaccine
- The children who were vaccinated developed twelve year immunity against the virus. In adults, it is seen that 78% immunity had developed against the virus for twelve years period.
- About 2% of the vaccinated children get infected by the virus but it was very mild as compare to normal infection.
- Vaccination helps you to avoid infection of the virus. It is very good to get vaccine before virus catches you because suppose you get infection after vaccination then at least effect of disease will be very mild.
Effect of the vaccine after infection
Chickenpox vaccine can be beneficial if it is given before 72 hours of infection. Chicken pox can be recovered in fewer days comparatively.
