The article contains specific data about what is diphtheria vaccination and why it is really needed, including vaccination against diphtheria for adults, according to an Internet publication for girls and women aged 14-35 who have been diagnosed with Pannochka. Net Diphtheria disease causes a causative agent bearing the Latin name Corynebakterium diphtheriae or diphtheria bacillus. Against him, and vaccinated against diphtheria. The disease itself is unsafe because it causes the most intense intoxication of the whole organism, rapidly leading to loss of strength and death of the ill. But even earlier, choking caused by the development of the so-called "diphtheria croup", when the films formed in the throat and the accompanying toxic edema completely block the access of air to the lungs, and the person simply suffocates. The peculiarity of the pathogen will be that it can be on the skin and mucous nasopharynx of a non-sick person, which in this case acts as a carrier. When coughing or sneezing, the rod can be transmitted by the airborne method to a number of people and already cause them to develop a disease. Before the vaccination against diphtheria was developed, this infection was very widespread and almost 80% of the diseased died. The majority of those suffering from this disease were toddlers of early age, but the deadly disease did not spare the adults. After the vaccination against diphtheria was mass-introduced, the incidence of diphtheria, and even more so the toxic diphtheria croup actually disappeared.

In the last decade of the last century (around the beginning of the 1990s), a wave of panic rumors spread throughout the country that a vaccination against diphtheria often causes an aggravation in the form of a disease with a fatal outcome. As a result, many ancestors began to abandon the vaccination and by the end of the 1990s it had given up its "bitter fruits". In Russia, a record surge of the diphtheria. And only critical measures to vaccinate all previously unvaccinated adults and toddlers returned the depleted immune layer of the population and stopped the outbreak of the disease. It was a sad experience, which showed in this example the need for vaccinations as a phenomenon in general.

Currently, the vaccination against diphtheria is included in the state vaccination calendar and the 1st vaccination is carried out starting from 3 months. Then again in 4. 5 months and 6 months. In the forthcoming only revaccination is carried out at the age of 7 and 14. Taking into account that diphtheria, as it annoyingly did not sound, is not one deadly disease, it is usual to vaccinate with a combined vaccine. For example, vaccination against diphtheria and tetanus, which is often added and anti-pertussis component. In the end, the AKDC vaccine (mixture of components containing diphtheria, pertussis and diphtheria toxoid). The word "anatoxin" means that they are very weakened and can not cause disease, but antibodies are produced on them and immunity to diseases is formed.

It is important to realize that in some cases the disease can still be, but in mild form, with the exception of mortality, while 8 people from 10 sick people die without vaccination (see the percentage given above). In addition, the immunity is not unlimited, because there is also an inoculation from diphtheria for adults, usually no longer incorporating the anticonfigurant component (ADS or ADS-M), which should be revaccinated every 10 years.

Health. Sumy. Ua.

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