Measles, mumps, and rubella are dangerous diseases causing long-term effects on the health of children. Therefore, the vaccination of these diseases will prevent many unpredictable consequences. However, many mothers still wonder how the schedule for the rubella measles injection will follow. To better understand this, you should follow the article below to supplement your knowledge.
Learn about measles, mumps and rubella
Measles
This is an acute infectious disease caused by the virus Paramyxoviridae. The disease often appears in the winter-spring period, is a common disease in children, but also occurs in adults, with high potential to cause epidemics. The subjects most at-risk are all those who are not immune to measles and children are at higher risk.
Symptoms of measles are usually: Fever, rash, cough, conjunctivitis (red eyes), runny nose. Untreated treatment can lead to ear infections, pneumonia, epilepsy, brain damage, and death.
Mumps
Mumps is a fairly common childhood infectious disease caused by the mumps virus, belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family. This virus can last a long time outside the body and spreads easily through the respiratory tract. Children with mumps often have fever, headache, muscle aches, loss of appetite, and swollen jaw glands. In boys, swelling of the scrotum and testicular pain may also occur.
Mumps, if not treated properly, can lead to dangerous complications such as deafness, meningitis, infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, painful swelling of the testicles or ovaries, some cases of infertility or can even be life threatening.
Rubella disease
Rubella or German measles is an infectious disease caused by the rubella virus of the togavirus family. The disease thrives in the spring color and is also mainly spread through the respiratory tract and passed from mother to child. The lymph nodes appear in the occipital, neck, groin, groin, pain, appear before the rash, and persist a few days after the rash disappears. The rubella rash initially appears on the head, face, and then grows all over the body, but is usually not as sequential as measles.
Rubella for the average person is a mild illness that usually goes away without complications. However, with pregnant women, the disease causes many dangerous complications, especially in the first 3 months of pregnancy such as miscarriage, stillbirth or birth defects for the fetus such as headache. small, psychomotor retardation, deafness, blindness, heart disease (congenital Rubella syndrome). In addition, babies born to mothers infected with Rubella disease may also have jaundice, hemorrhage, diabetes mellitus, splenomegaly, vitiligo ...
These diseases all have in common that they are easily spread from person to person through inhalation, through the air, and it is difficult to recognize early signs of the disease. Therefore, vaccination for these diseases is very necessary, is the best way to protect the health of infants and young children.
The recommended vaccine for preventing these diseases is a live, attenuated vaccine called MMR II.
Rubella mumps injection schedule for your baby
The schedule of injections for measles mumps with rubella varies between ages
For children from 12 months to 7 years:
Get the first 1 injection.
For children 7 years and over and adults:
Get the first 1 injection.
Nose 2 is at least 1 month away from nose 1.
Particularly for women, the vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella should be completed at least 3 months before pregnancy.
Rubella vaccination is not recommended for children under 12 months of age. In fact, the childhood vaccinations for these 3 diseases will be given 2 doses of the vaccine, the specific time being:
The first dose: when the child is 12-15 months old
The second dose: when the child is 4-6 years old
For newborns aged 9-12 months, who are in an infected area and have not been vaccinated, one shot should be given. The next injection is at 15-18 months of age, and 3 to 5 years after the 2nd shot.
Where should I get MMR II vaccine for my baby?
To ensure the quality of the vaccine, MMR II should be refrigerated according to the correct process, in the temperature range from 2 to 8 degrees C, not to freeze the solvent ... because MMT II is a live vaccine reduced virulence. Moreover, before injection, it is necessary to do pre-injection screening and post-injection health monitoring.
Therefore, parents need to choose reputable immunization centers with pre- and post-vaccination screening health checks, vaccines are strictly preserved according to standards for the best vaccination effect.
Caution when caring for a child following rubella measles injection
Parents need to closely monitor their children within 24 hours after injection to promptly detect any unusual signs.
After the vaccination, some of the symptoms children will experience are usually a rash on the skin, fever or sore throat, body aches. However, do not need to worry too much because these are signs that the baby's body is reacting to the drug. The above symptoms will disappear quickly after 1-2 days.
In addition, after the baby is vaccinated, mumps and rubella may also develop inflammation, swelling, and pain where the shot was given. Some babies also show signs of very high fever, insomnia due to the developing immune responses in the baby's body.
If the baby has a fever of over 40 degrees C or more, the baby has convulsions and sweats, the high fever does not decrease for more than 1 day, at this time, parents should bring the baby to the doctor immediately for monitoring because this can be a sign have anaphylactic shock with the vaccine.
In addition, if parents are not confident about their child's health after vaccination, they can go directly to the commune / ward health station for further advice on how to care for the child.
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