The injections may sting a little … But the diseases they can prevent can hurt more! Immunizations or vaccinations are essential. Protect against diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, polio, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). Vaccines are important both for adults as for children.
The immune system helps your body fight germs by producing chemicals to combat them. Once you do, the immune system “remembers” the germ and can fight him again. Vaccines contain dead or weakened germs. When given a healthy person, the vaccine triggers an immune response to respond, creating immunity.
Before vaccines exist, people could only be truly immune when contracted the disease and survived it. Immunizations are an easier and less risky to be immune.
Vaccines are not just for kids.
Too many adults become ill, become incapacitated and die each year from diseases that could have easily been avoided through vaccination. For this reason, everyone from young adults to the elderly, can enjoy the benefits of vaccines.
Below is a list of diseases preventable through vaccines. Some vaccines are essential to most adults, especially the elderly. Others are appropriate only for some people. Take a few minutes to determine if you run risk of contracting these diseases, and then discuss the vaccination program for adults with your doctor.
Adulthood diseases preventable by vaccines.
1). Diphtheria
2). Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
3). Hepatitis A
4). Hepatitis B
5). Lyme Disease
6). Influenza (flu)
7). Measles **
8). Mumps (Mumps) *
9). Pneumococcus
10). Polio
11). Rubella *
12).Tetanus
13).Varicella **
Diseases particularly serious for adults over 65 years
1). Diphtheria
2). Influenza (flu)
3). Pneumococcus
4). Tetanus
* You do not need the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) if:
1) The result of a blood test shows that you are immune to measles, mumps and rubella.
2) You’re male and born before 1957.
3) You are female, born before 1957 and is confident he will not have children, and was given the rubella vaccine or had positive results on an examination of rubella.
4) Since you have been given two doses of MMR vaccine or one dose of MMR and a second dose of measles vaccine.
5) I have had one dose of MMR vaccine and has a high risk of exposure to measles.
** You do not need the varicella vaccine if you are sure you had the disease.
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