Doctors say: vaccination of children is one of the most effective measures to prevent dangerous diseases

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Andrey Verbitsky, chief physician of the Sevastopol TB dispensary, spoke about the importance of vaccinating children. It allows you to protect the body of a small patient from a number of dangerous infectious diseases. In addition, modern medicine uses completely new vaccines, in which dangerous components are either reduced to a minimum or completely eliminated. Each vaccine is specific, that is, it protects against a certain type of infectious agents. That is why the first vaccination offered to children in maternity hospitals is BCG-M. This is the best way to keep children safe from TB.

Immunodiagnostics and immunoprophylaxis is a single complex for a child from the moment of his birth to the age of majority. On the third to fifth days of life, a child in the maternity hospital is vaccinated with the BCG-M vaccine to build immunity against tuberculosis infection and prevent such formidable diseases as tuberculous meningoencephalitis and generalized tuberculosis, which often ends in death in unvaccinated children , — The press service of the Government of Sevastopol quotes the chief physician of the Sevastopol TB dispensary Andrei Verbitsky.

The immune response to the vaccine persists in the body for some time, after which revaccination should be done.

Revaccination is done at the age of seven if there is a fading of the activity of tuberculous immunity. From the age of eight, immunological samples are taken using the Diaskin test method, it reacts to two specific proteins that are secreted only by actively multiplying tuberculosis bacteria , Andrey Verbitsky notes.

He also noted that children who have a positive Diaskin test should be further examined in a tuberculosis dispensary. These are healthy children, but they had a primary encounter with tuberculosis infection.

At the moment, the incidence of tuberculosis in Sevastopol is stable, at the level of 32 to 100 000 population. If we compare, for example, 2021 and 2022 a year, then the figures for the child population are approximately the same. The mortality rate last year was extremely low for the entire period of epidemic observation since 1992 year, Andrey Verbitsky emphasizes.

Each country has its own regulations, from which children are vaccinated without fail, in what period it needs to be done and how many doses are needed. In Russia, the vaccination schedule includes vaccination against 13 infections: these are viral hepatitis B, hemophilus, meningococcal and pneumococcal infections, influenza, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus, tuberculosis , mumps (mumps).

In addition, vaccinations can be given according to epidemic indications.

Recall that recently the city launched a campaign to vaccinate adolescents against the human papillomavirus. It is done to prevent infection caused by certain types of HPV, as well as to prevent cervical cancer in teenage girls and some rarer forms of cancer in boys.