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Vaccinations
A vaccine is the preparation of dead microorganisms, living weakened microorganisms or inactivated toxins. Its administration induces the development of immunity and protection against a pathogen or toxin and is called a vaccination.
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What is the difference between Drugs and Medicines and Vaccines?
Drugs are the chemical molecules which are used to cure some imbalance in the humanbody. this drugs will not involve in the any immune proliferation. and once disease maybe get cured by the drug we have the chance to regain.
Vaccines are the parts of microbes, microbes in killed live or attenuated form of micro organism, which are directly affecting immune system or proliferating the immune system by this we are getting persistence to the disease. once the person has been administrated with the vaccine means he may not get disease again.
and drugs are taking after the observing of the symptoms and vaccines are taking before the symptoms and.. vaccines are working on the principle "prevention is better-then cure".
and medicine is the crude term for the denoting the all types of drugs in genrally. it is not have any specification.
Should you exercise after a flu shot?
There are certain situations where it would be appropriate to get a flu shot after having had the flu. See the group of related questions below for information on these circumstances and the reasons this may be needed. The risk of problems with the flu, especially for those in high risk groups, far outweighs the very minimal risk of getting a vaccination.
If you are 100% sure from lab testing that the flu you had is the same as the vaccination, then there would be no reason to get the shot. Since the seasonal flu shots contain vaccine for three different types of flu, then the odds that you already had all three is very low. It will not hurt you to get a flu shot for the type of flu you already had, so to be on the safe side, go ahead and get the vaccination.
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A vaccine is used in medicine to enhance or induce immunity to a particular disease. It usually contains an agent that resembles the disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe or its toxins. The body's immune system recognizes the vaccine as foreign, and destroys it. It also preserves a memory of it so that, if it encounters it again, it can easily recognize and destroy it in later encounters.
Vaccines have been used to eradicate smallpox completely, have greatly diminished the occurrence of many other diseases, and have reduced the death and disfigurement they used to cause. Polio (and the paralysis that it causes ) is now almost a thing of the past, and congenital deformities due to rubella (German measles) is now quite rare.
Some vaccines are given after exposure to disease; rabies vaccine is an example of this. Rabies infection was once 100% lethal; it still is if the vaccine is not given in time.
There are several types of vaccines, and they are generally made from dead or inactivated organisms (bacteria or viruses), or from their chemical constituents.
KILLED: Some vaccines contain microorganisms that have been destroyed with chemicals or heat. Examples include Hepatitis A, influenza, cholera, Bubonic Plague, polio (Salk injectable vaccine) and rabies.
ATTENUATED: Other vaccines contain microorganisms that have been weakened and are no longer virulent, or use very similar but non-disease causing organisms. Most of these are viruses. These vaccines generally produce the strongest and longest-lasting immunity, and are preferred in healthy adults. Examples include yellow fever, measles, rubella, mumps, influenza, tuberculosis (BCG), typhoid and polio (Sabin oral).
TOXOID: Some vaccines target the toxic compounds (toxoids) produced by microorganisms which cause illness rather than the micro-organism itself. Examples include tetanus and diphtheria.
SUBUNIT: Other vaccines use a fragment of a micro-organism to induce an immune response rather than using the entire micro-organism. These are usually proteins from the capsule of a virus. Examples include hepatitis B, HPV (human papilloma virus which causes Cervical cancer) and influenza vaccines are also available in this form of vaccine.
CONJUGATE: A newer type of vaccine in which the immune system is taught to recognize the polysaccharide outer coats of some bacteria. An example is Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib). This organism is a bacterium, not a virus, despite its name.
ADJUVANTED: Adjuvanted vaccines for some microbes are available in the US. The US has, however chosen not to use adjuvants in flu vaccinations. But adjuvanted flu vaccines have been safely and successfully used in some European countries for years. These have an additive that enhances the effectiveness of the vaccine, allows for smaller doses since less is needed per dose to get the same immune response, and that saves money per dose as well as allows faster production of enough to go around. In times of a need for rapid development of a vaccine, this helps reduce the dose of each vaccination making a little go a long way. The adjuvant substance is often squalene, made from shark liver oil. There is no proven adverse effect of use of adjuvants, although it is a concern (appropriate or not) of many people.
OTHER: Some vaccines have a trace amount of a preservative called thimerosal. This is necessary for multi-dose vials to prevent growth of unwanted organisms. Single dose vials and syringes usually don't need this preservative (in flu vaccines). People have concern about thimerosal because they have heard it contains mercury. There is a trace amount of mercury in the thimerosal, although this has been used without adverse effects. The amount of mercury in a dose of vaccines with thimerosal preservative is equivalent to a meal of fish. The risk of having a problem with thimerosal is much lower than the risk of using a vaccine without a preservative.
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When a microorganism (antigen) is introduced into the body, our immune system produces antibody specific to that microorganism. The disease-causing microorganisms you receive through vaccination are killed, weakened, or modified to avoid making you develop the diseases, but adequate enough for antibody production. Those antibodies will fight the microorganisms should you contract them in the future so you don't get sick from them.
Can you take alcohol after Swine Flu vaccine?
Maybe. Immediately following delivery of a vaccine, your body will be working hard on creating a response and defense to the microbe (such as the H1N1 virus) in the vaccine. For this reason, there is no good reason to add extra strain to your body, and especially the immune system, while they are working to provide your immunity. The major organs and tissues of the immune system are the thymus, liver, bone marrow, tonsils, lymph nodes, spleen, and blood. Alcohol, a substance known to sometimes put a strain on the liver, may be an ingredient in some cough medicines. Use of cough medicine, in the amounts indicated on the medication label, would not be problematic. However, if even this can be avoided, it would be the best way to help your body to do its job of developing defenses to the virus in the swine flu vaccine.
Is it safe to get the pneumonia vaccine if your sick?
Most recommendations are that you should not take flu vaccinations if you have an active infection with fever or other serious symptoms.
If no fever, and symptoms are mild, you could get the vaccination, but since each case is different, it would be best to speak to your doctor who is treating your pneumonia.
You can take the vaccination if you are taking antibiotics, there is no drug interaction problem, but if you still have active pneumonia, ask your doctor's advice about the flu shot. They may suggest that in your case the risk of getting the flu on top of pneumonia at the current stage of your lung infection, would be higher than the risk of an improper immune response to the vaccination and therefore will want you to take the vaccination now.
Why is it difficult to develop vaccine against viral disease?
viruses dont have mtabolism.Drugs must stop one of the steps of replication but that ocurre inside the host cell.Viruses mutate faster than bacteria creatin generation that are resistant to antiviraltherapy or difficult to find one.
The recommendations in the US are to get the first dose between 12 and 15 months old, and the second dose between ages 4 and 6 years. It can also be used to prevent infection if given within five days of exposure.
If a child or adult hasn't been vaccinated yet, s/he should get the first dose now, and the second dose at least three months apart if the patient is under 13, and at least four weeks apart for patients 13 and older.
If someone has had just one dose, they should get a second dose.
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Yes! Keep in mind that no drugs, vaccines, or supplements is 100% free of side effects or adverse reactions. Like many things in life, you have to weight to risks versus the benefits. Many people tend to forget how bad were these diseases before the wide spread use of vaccines. Now, because of the vaccines, we don't see these diseases very often, but we do hear people with adverse reactions telling their stories loudly. Just like other things in life, bad news tend to spread like wildfire, but you'd never hear people who didn't have any problems.
How did measles vaccine get its name?
The name "measles" is probably derived from the middle English word, maseles (plural mesels), which means spot.
What can happen if a person was given flu vaccine twice in one day?
In an adult, as long as it isn't in the same arm on the same day, and there is no allergic reaction, it will likely cause no problems. The worst might be more than usual soreness, redness and swelling at the injection site.
What will happen if you dont get vaccinated?
If you don't get a flu vaccination, either a shot or nasal mist, then you are putting yourself at an unnecessary health risk. It is proven that the risk of having a problem with the vaccine is so extremely low compared to the risk of catching and getting really sick from the flu (36,000 people a year in the US die from the seasonal flu), that it is ill-advised to avoid vaccination. The numbers speak for themselves.
If you wouldn't bet your life in a poker game, you shouldn't gamble with it with serious diseases, either. You not only put yourself in unnecessary danger, you also put loved ones and others to whom you can spread it at the same or higher risk. It is just common sense.
How do vaccines prevent diseases?
1) Antibodies bind to the pathogen to prevent them from entering or damaging cells
2) Antibodies coat the pathogen stimulating the removal of pathogen by macrophages and other cells
3) They trigger destruction of pathogens by stimulating other immune responses such as complement pathway
How does vaccines prevent future infections?
Vaccines inject a weak amount of the pathogen that causes the infection into you. This is not enough to harm you. This causes your bodies lymphocyte white blood cells to produce antibodies that lock onto antigens on the pathogen, marking then out for your phagocyte white blood cells to destroy them.
This means that next time you get infected with the pathogen, your body recognises it quicker so it can produce the antibodies much faster and destroy the pathogen before you express any symptoms.
An individual who played a huge role in smallpox vaccine?
Edward Jenner, an English physician, discovered the smallpox vaccine in 1796. He came upon this discovery by noticing that milkmaids who had the cowpox virus, a less threatening disease, did not catch the dangerous smallpox. Jenner then infected an 8-year-old boy with the cowpox. After six weeks, he exposed the boy to the smallpox disease and the boy did not show any smallpox related symptoms.
Sone fun facts:
-Jenner coined the term 'vaccine': 'vaca' means cow in Latin.
-Before the vaccine, the death rate of the disease was up to 35%.
Can you take Viagra after flu shot?
The drug manufacturers and drug package insert data indicate that there are no known drug interaction problems with the flu vaccine and other medications. There should be no reason to avoid your regular prescribed medications after getting the flu vaccine.
If you take medications that cause immunosuppression or have disease that causes suppression of your immune system, then you should consult your prescribing physician before vaccination to find out whether you should use a vaccine and, if so, which type of vaccine you should use (e.g., live attenuated vaccine vs inert vaccine).
Where can you go to get a MMR vaccine?
The meningitis vaccination is given into the deltoid muscle, or the upper arm.
How long should you wait to get the flu shot if you just got over the flu?
Most people can get a flu vaccination with mild illnesses as long as they do not have a high fever. However, if you have the flu, you should be resting in bed and not out in public spreading the disease. After you have gone a full 24 hours without a fever (while taking no fever reducing medicines), you are considered no longer contagious, according to the US CDC. If you had an especially difficult bout of the flu with serious complications, you should ask your health care professional when you will be ready for vaccination, but usually only the above guidelines will apply.
What diseases have vaccinations?
The following are preventable pediatric illnesses that are vaccinated against in the recommended vaccination schedule from the CDC:
Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), bacteria such as H. flu and S. pneumoniae that cause serious meningitis/pneumonia/blood infections, influenza, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, polio, chicken pox, measles, mumps, rubella, meningitis caused by N. meningitidis, and human papilloma virus (HPV) which causes cervical cancer.
In addition, there are many other vaccines available to people traveling to international areas with high rates of different illnesses.
What is the recommended dose of chickenpox vaccine?
The doseage changes each year with the seasonal flu vaccines based upon human and laboratory trials to see what doseages are effective against the selected strains of flu that are expected to be predominant during the upcoming flu season. The swine flu vaccine is still (August 2009) being tested to determine this by the drug manufacturers. It is expected that this will be tested and determined for vaccine release very soon.
What is route of administration of swine flu vaccine?
If injected it is given in the muscle as an intramuscular injection. It can also be taken as a nasal mist that is sniffed.
Why are some vaccinations bad?
Vaccines are actually good for you. They help the body develop anti-bodies to fight off deadly and crippling diseases. With millions of vaccines given through the decades, there has been no proof that vaccines are the cause of many of the side effects that some claim.
Some feel that vaccines are so bad for you because of what many believe to be toxic ingredients. Several people have claimed that their children have gotten diseases from them to like cancer and autism.
What are the positive outcomes of vaccines?
the person who takes the vaccine wont die of polio (it causes weak muscles, affects the spinal cord,and might paralyze you), measles (causes a rash, runny nose ,fever, and it mostly lasts for 2 weeks) or tuberculosis (otherwise said as TB, it attacks the lungs and may cause death).
also when a virus attacks and there is a vaccine already injected into the human arm, the white blood cells are ready to fight and when the cells defeat the virus, the immune system grows stronger!
EXTRA FACTS ABOUT YOUR SELF AS VIRUSES
when you have cold (for example) that means you cant have that cold again (millions of different types of colds, so you get colds more then once)and as soon as that sickness is gone from your immune system, your body forms antibody's to defend yourself from the sickness you already got!
how our body defends us from sickness and viruses is that every time your white blood cells fight a sickness, the white blood cells become stronger, and the mucous in your nose or the hairs in your nose catches or traps the sickness until you sneeze it out into the air (the viruses are very small and travel throughout the air) and the saliva in your mouth helps trap the virus and makes it decay.
i hope this information helped you a lot :D have a nice day
How are vaccines used to boost your bodys defence?
A vaccination is usually a dead virus that has been administered at a specific dosage to trigger the body to produce antibodies. As a result of this production, the body will recognize the same virus in the future and "attack" it and kill it before it can make the body sick.
A vaccine contains complete or partial microbes or the toxins they produce. It stimulates the immune system to raise antibodies against the antigens on the disease carrying organisms. A pathogen against which the body has been vaccinated alerts memory cells so causing the immune system to launch an instant defence.
