Why does a child need to be vaccinated

Despite significant medical progress, the view is now actively spreading that early vaccination may injure the child. Is it worth risking life offspring? Vaccinate or not? Try to understand.

Fear of vaccines today is akin to the medieval obscurantism. Spreading it is very active, become a major source of social networks and personal contacts "caring mothers." Unfortunately, most of them about medicine knows only by hearsay or based on your own experience with the parochial pseudo-doctors.

Yes, vaccines can bring certain complications. First of all, it is an allergy to proteins in which a lot of vaccinations based. When the child's immune system weakened by disease, and perhaps a manifestation of the disease from which the baby was vaccinated. However, even in the worst case, the disease will have a lot less power than is possible, and hence the smaller the consequences. With allergies even easier: the sample at the allergist will help to choose the right vaccine and concomitant therapy.

Although parents usually do not bother these problems... Somehow fundamental error associated with the development of autism in children who received the vaccine. However, in 2005, a research team from the United States reviewed data on nearly 100 thousand children and found no link between vaccination against measles, mumps and rubella, and the development of autistic disorders.

In the article, published in the journal The Journal of the American Medical Associations, presented the results of a medical study of children of different ages, vaccinated MMR vaccine against measles, rubella and mumps. The children were divided into three groups: healthy children with autistic disorders and the nature of children who have a brother or sister diagnosed with autism.

After analyzing the data, the researchers found no association between vaccination and development of autistic character disorders. Neither in healthy children or children at risk. The same show and other studies.

Much more dangerous not to vaccinate a child. Recently, due to the deterioration of the quality of care in the CIS frequent outbreaks of deadly diseases. Occasionally happen and the local epidemic. Measles, mumps and scarlet fever have become everyday. In some countries, there are still nearly defeated polio worldwide. A TB is ubiquitous even in Russia, besides the cases of belated exclusion of people with an active form of the disease. All these diseases are deadly to children. Tuberculosis and polio leave terrible marks: the child becomes disabled.

It is worth remembering and about, perhaps, the most terrible disease - tetanus. Vaccinated against it do literally in the first days of life. And not without reason.

Pathogen tetanus akin gas gangrene, able to live in a vacuum. A delicate baby skin and the ubiquity of microorganisms that cause tetanus can lead to death even from a small injury, scratches, bruises, crushing.

Be vaccinated at this point it is too late - the disease develops very rapidly and can not be treated.

Of course, decide to risk or not to be vaccinated or not, can only be a parent. But if you did not make your child vaccinated, be sure to isolate it from the other children. After all, they may carry, as immune to the deadly disease.

And even better - took their unvaccinated children where human contact is excluded. Do not raise the epidemiological level. Do not become the cause of mass infection.