Vaccines
Congenital rubella syndrome.
It is a febrile illness of low intensity, which is characterized by the eruption-popular punctiform macula, similar to that of measles or scarlet fever. Can cause abnormalities in the fetus.
Fetuses infected in early embryonic life are exposed to greater risk of stillbirth and congenital malformations of major organ systems, including isolated defects such as deafness, cataracts, microphthalmia, congenital glaucoma, microcephaly, meningoencephalitis, mental retardation, persistent ductus arteriosus, defects of the interventricular septum or septal defect.
Also hepatosplenomegaly, jaundice and even the mother may present spontaneous abortion.
The vaccine is prepared using SR attenuated measles virus, the Edmonston-Zagreb strains, Enders and Schwartz or attenuated rubella virus strain Wistar.
It is applied in single dose from the twelve years of age in men and women, subcutaneously in the deltoid region of the left arm and requires no reinforcement.
Should not be administered during pregnancy or in patients treated with corticosteroids, immunosuppressive or cytotoxic, nor in those who suffer from leukemia, lymphoma, cancer, and those with degenerative neurological and convulsive tables untreated.
RECOMBINANT hepatitis B vaccine.
Hepatitis B.
The vaccine is prepared with the protein surface antigen of hepatitis B virus, which is produced by recombinant DNA procedures from the cultivation of a yeast transformed by the insertion in its genome the gene that codes for surface antigen viral.
Is applied intramuscularly in adolescents twelve years of age, at-risk population, in two divided doses with a time difference of a month. It is possible to simultaneously administered with other vaccines.
Not be given to people with fever who are on immunosuppressive therapy or have serious illness.
The individual who receives it may have slight fever after the administration, mild pain at the injection site or redness.
INFLUENZA VACCINE
Influenza or flu.
It is an infectious disease of the airways, which regularly produces limited outbreaks. It comes with a sudden high fever, accompanied by muscle pain in throat, dry cough and prostration which could be intense and lasting.
The patient recovers in about seven days, but if neglected can lead to pneumonia complications.
The biological is used to prevent this disease has two subtypes of influenza virus subtype A and B, recommended by the World Health Organization. The viruses used are grown in chicken embryos and can be constituted with full or divided structures.
Adults older than 60 years and children over six months are the ones who should receive the vaccine, preferably. However it is contraindicated in those who are allergic to egg protein, the viral proteins, in the presence of fever of 38.5 degrees, also in those who received less than the biological one years and pregnant women.
PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINE
Pneumococcal pneumonia
It is bacterial, acute, characterized by escalosfrÃos, fever, pleural pain, dyspnea, productive cough with mucopurulent and reflects red, tachycardia, malaise and weakness. In children who are fed their mothers milk, the manifestations are vomiting and sometimes comnvulsiones.
Monopolies pneumococcal vaccine contains purified from 23 Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes. Is applied subcutaneously or intramuscularly in the arm as a single dose.
Is recommended for healthy adults over 60 years, which have high risk of infection, chronic lung disease, those suffering from sickle cell disease, alcoholism, cirrhosis, renal failure, among others.
You do not have to administer to those who received it in less than five years, with a history of having suffered from the disease, pregnant women and children under two years old.