Among modern parents, the issue of vaccination in recent years has caused a lot of controversy. Many refuse from preventive vaccinations to their child, fearing the introduction of a substandard vaccine. In addition, many inoculations in state polyclinics simply do not exist, and because of this the schedule of vaccination and revaccination of babies is constantly disrupted.
Parents who realize the seriousness of this situation, buy the medication on their own in the pharmacy. Probably the most popular among such vaccines is infarix. This is the Belgian combined vaccine against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. The composition of infarix includes several components, due to which this one inoculation promotes the appearance of the child's immunity against three diseases at once.
In addition, there are also infarix hexa vaccines (against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B and hemophilic rod) and IPV infarix (against the first four diseases).
If you decide on your own initiative to buy and make a child vaccinated infarix, then you need to know how to properly store and transport this vaccine. It requires storage at a temperature of 2 to 80C, and between the withdrawal of the ampoule from the refrigerator and the introduction of her child should pass a minimum of time. To do this, ask your local pediatrician about the vaccination procedure with the drug, bring the child to a doctor's office in advance and sign the consent for vaccination, and then take the vaccine from the pharmacy.
Response to the infarix
The meaning of any vaccination is that the body is injected with live attenuated bacteria, and the child, as it were, is ill in mild form (sometimes even without symptoms), as a result of which immunity to this disease is developed.
But most often in response to the introduction of the infarix vaccine, the baby's organism reacts by raising the temperature (38-39 ° C). Usually this happens on the evening of the vaccination day or throughout the next week after it. In addition to temperature, after infarriks complications are possible:
- compaction at the site of grafting (up to 2 cm);
- anxiety or drowsiness (often);
- diarrhea, vomiting, refusal to eat (rarely).
Extremely rare adverse reactions in the form of allergic rashes, dermatitis, as well as symptoms of respiratory diseases (rhinitis, cough).
However, the probability of occurrence of these side effects in the Infarix vaccine is much less than that of the domestic vaccines, which the State provides children free of charge.
Infanrix or pentaxime: which is better?
Another, no less popular modern vaccine is pentaxime (France). To stop at one of them, let's find out what the infarix differs from pentaxim.
The main difference is the composition of vaccinations. If the infarix is a three-component vaccine, then pentaxim is a five-component vaccine, respectively. Therefore, before you do this or that vaccination, be sure to check with your doctor, from what diseases you are now more preferable to vaccinate, in order to observe your calendar schedule of vaccinations. Both vaccinations are transferred about equally.
When choosing a drug to vaccinate your child, be sure to ask the quality of the particular lot of the vaccine that is currently in your pharmacy and what was the reaction to it from other children.
It should also be noted that it is desirable to carry out revaccination with the same vaccine that was administered primarily. That is, if you initially vaccinated with infarix vaccine, then the booster should be carried out by her.