Vaccination varicella vaccine, care of baby

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Varicella vaccine is a live attenuated virus vaccine. Vaccination varicella vaccine can play a good preventive effect, and this effect could be a long time. The United States has the chickenpox vaccine be incorporated into routine immunization programs for children, but in China, varicella vaccine was also part of the vaccine at their own expense.

To kindergarten, due to the baby’s broader contact surface, while the chicken pox contagious stronger in kindergarten is often a baby infected with chicken pox, it could easily lead to the incidence of baby nursery. Therefore, the varicella vaccine, or injection well in advance.

Recognizing Chickenpox

Chickenpox is common in children aged 2 to 10, is an incidence of acute and highly contagious infectious diseases. Chicken pox occur in the winter and spring, often in kindergarten or primary school rise to popularity.

Chickenpox chicken pox pathogen – zoster virus, present in the blood, herpes of the slurry and oral secretions, primarily by droplet infection through the respiratory tract. Precious contact with viral contaminated dust, clothing, utensils, etc. may also be infected. That is, if the health of children and children suffering from chickenpox often play together, talk, close contacts are likely to be infected with the disease. Therefore, suffering from chicken pox should be noted that, once isolated, should not be completely cured prior to kindergarten or school. Even if patients have been in contact with chickenpox children should also be isolated for observation 2 ~ 3 weeks. Because the virus is not immediately after the onset, generally after 14 to 17 days of incubation, the elderly up to 3 weeks.

Highly contagious chicken pox, the patient is the only source of infection, contact with them if no children had suffered from chicken pox or have been vaccinated and about 90% of disease.

Chickenpox appears to disappear from the history of

Initially, the young patient would develop fever, malaise, anorexia and other systemic symptoms, usually 1 to 2 days, a rash. First of all hair on the trunk, and gradually Daotou the face and limbs, showing the concentric distribution, that is more than the trunk, limbs less. Since the beginning of the red papules, a few hours later turned into mung bean-sized blisters, Zhou around to flush. Was clear blisters early bead-like, thin wall and easy to break, accompanied by itching. After a few days and dry scab, after the scab off and more, without leaving any scars. The onset of 3 to 5 days, the rash occurred one after another in batches, it can be seen at the same time papules, blisters, crusted skin lesions of different periods, duration of about 2 ~ 3 weeks.

Mouth, conjunctiva, pharynx, genital mucosa, etc. are also dual damage may occur, often accompanied by the formation of ulcer pain. Rash is not out of the better, as long as they meet the general laws of the rash, some are more or less normal. If the blisters scratch after the secondary bacterial infections, skin necrosis may occur, and even sepsis. In addition, a few also occur in patients with varicella pneumonia, encephalitis, myocarditis, and purpura fulminans complications.

Vaccination, care of baby

Baby chickenpox vaccine can prevent chickenpox vaccine, which has excellent security, protection rate of up to 98.5%. Over the age of a baby can be injected. Provide sufficient immunity after vaccination. Varicella vaccination side effects are mild. 20% ~ 25% of children will have a temporary injection site, mild pain, induration, redness.

Mother should pay attention to, varicella vaccine must be injected separately, can not be mixed with other vaccines injected in the same needle. And, preferably, separated from the time injection with other vaccines.

Varicella vaccine costs have two kinds of domestic and imported, domestic vaccine prices of around 160 yuan, 330 yuan or so imported vaccines.