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Title: Immunizations Play an Important Role in Your Health
Like many people, you probably get a flu shot every year. But what about the other immunizations you’ve heard about? Your Pegasus caregiver and your doctor can answer your questions.
It’s easy to decide as you age that you don’t need a vaccination against this or that. Although you are well past childhood diseases, maturity doesn’t bestow protection from infection. And infection of any
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Tell your doctor before any injection if you:
• Are allergic to eggs
• Are allergic to latex
• Have Guillain-Barre syndrome
• Have a fever
• Have any illness or disease
Your doctor also needs to know if you’ve had a severe reaction to a vaccine in the past.
Minor reactions to immunization are limited to:
• Redness at the injection site
• Slight pain at the injection site
• Muscle aches
• Low fever
• Malaise
These are all temporary symptoms and pass within a day or two.
Your caregiver is trained to recognize serious reactions. He or she will consult with your doctor to ensure that you obtain treatment if needed. Otherwise, your caregiver will strive to keep you comfortable.
It’s also important that you receive your immunizations at the right time. A home health care specialist helps you keep a record of what you’ve had and when. If needed, your caregiver will schedule an appointment and transport you to the doctor’s office.
Most physicians recommend the following vaccinations for seniors:
• Influenza
• Pneumonia
• Shingles
• Tdap
These are all intended to prevent infection.
Influenza
Influenza, or the flu, is very contagious. The older an individual is, the more serious it can be. It can worsen any existing condition.
Complications of the flu can land you in a hospital. You may still get the flu if you’re vaccinated, but the infection will be much milder. Because the viruses that cause influenza constantly change, you need a new flu shot each year.
Vaccines help you stay healthy. The Center of Disease Control recommends vaccinations from childood to adulthood. Yet many from childhood to adulthood are not vaccinated leaving them vulnerable to disease, suffering, and death. Vaccinations protect from whooping cough, meningitis, influenza, measles, and mumps, and tetanus and many others. Although be immunized does not guarantee you will not get the disease, it helps prevent it or reduce the symptoms. As you get older, protection from some childhood vaccines begins to wear off. Vaccinations, though, teach your body to recognize them as invaders, produce antibodies, and remember them for the future. If the bacteria or virus reappears, the immune system will recognize the antigens immediately and attack aggressively well before the disease can spread and cause sickness.
The immune system weakens with age, which makes seniors more susceptible to contracting seasonal influenza. Over ninety percent of deaths from the flu happen to those over 65 years of age. Seniors have the option of getting the regular flu vaccine or a higher-dose shot that results in a stronger immune response.
Vaccinations to the health care providers and managers of the epidemic treatment plan would be needed regardless of age due to the
Influenza, also known as the flu, is a highly contagious viral disease that affects the upper respiratory tract. Flu season typically lasts between the months of October and April. Signs and symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, fatigue, runny nose, and headaches. Individuals that are at a high risk of getting the
Over many years there have been parents that are very resistant to giving their children vaccines for the most complex to simplest diseases. Getting your children vaccinated could potentially save your child’s life and wipe out the disease for good. All children should be vaccinated when they are old enough to get the medication because if they do not get vaccinated it could put their health and others’ at risk. The disease-prevention benefits of getting vaccines are much greater than the possible side effects for almost all children.
Vaccinations cause allergic reactions in both adults and children. The flu vaccine is one of the worst offenders.
Depending on what part of your life you’re at right now, 6 years old or 83, you need to be protected from whatever large threats to our health you may be exposed to. 2. For example, it is advised that if you are about to move into a residency hall or dorm at a college or university, you should be getting your MMR, and Meningitis Vaccine. 3. If you have type 1 or 2 diabetes, you should be getting your Hepatitis B series and Pneumonia Vaccine.
To increase patient and hcw safety, health care workers should be mandate to get vaccination. Hcw are more at risk to get infection because of their contact with patient and then to spread it to patients, specially patients who are susceptible to the infection (CITATION). Influenza symptoms appears within 1-4 days. Before even hcw workes know that they have influenza infection and they are contagious, they may spread the infection to patient . Also, if hcw are infected, it will cause impact on their mental and physical functioning. Two randomly conducted studies have supported that mandatory influenza vaccination for hcw helped in decreasing death rate upto 44% in nursing home residents (Ottenberg, 2011). Potter et. al. identified that because of increased staff vaccination mortality rate reduced from 17% to 10% (Suillivan, 2010). The other fact which can effect patient safety due to low rate of vaccination is absenteeism of hcw during influenza epidemic.
Influenza over the years has mutated so many different times that it is hard for scientists to keep up with new and updated versions of vaccines to keep people protected. The Flu for some people can cause major complications such as pneumonia and bronchitis because the Flu attacks the respiratory area, but most people who get the Flu will recover in a few days or up to a few weeks. The 1918 Spanish Flu was the worst epidemic that ever hit the world and the contributing factors of the millions of death were that there was no such thing as vaccines or antibiotics to fight off infections. The side effects were so severe that doctors misdiagnosed Influenza as a different infectious disease, and this specific Flu killed more people than the plague.
It is very important to get vaccinated and have it properly done for you! Especially for younger humans because are they are surrounded in many places just like school, and just because it will build their immune systems to work against many sickness. Being vaccinated will prevent terrible disease and sicknesses from entering and hurting your body, it also prevents it for you for a great while so just one vaccination can protect you for a great while. Plus vaccines can save you from life and death situations and even just staying healthy.
There are sound medical reasons to follow these recommendations as parents: 10 of the diseases we are usually vaccinated against in our childhoods can be easily passed from one person to another, as they can travel through the air.
The CDC reports, “All vaccines carry a life-threatening allergic reaction in one per million children.” The CDC also says, “ The flu vaccine could cause Guillain-Barré Syndrome which is a disorder where a person’s immune system attacks
Everybody has their reasons either to vaccinate or to not vaccinate. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gave some of these reasons to vaccinate yourself and even your child which are as follows: getting vaccinations can save you and your family time and money, it also protects all those around you such as coworkers and even your loved ones, vaccinations can even save your child’s life and your life, and they will protect the future generations as well. Vaccinations can save you and your family money and time because getting a vaccination against the different diseases will cost you way less money than a hospital bill will cost you when you do get said disease and need to be hospitalized. When you get vaccinations, it helps protect
If you have had all of these vaccinations, contact your doctor and ask for a Certificate of Immunization to show to Human Resources. If you are missing any of these vaccinations, the human resources can provide you with the necessary shots, free of charge.
Although the majority of people infected with influenza recover completely within a week to ten days, some people are at a greater risk of experiencing more severe and long-lasting complications. The flu can lead to complications such as pneumonia and in some circumstances, severe complications in high-risk groups can lead to death. The number of deaths attributed to influenza varies each year, but it is estimated to be approximately 500 to 1500 deaths per influenza season. People who are at an increased risk for complications include very young children, people over 65 years of age, and those already suffering from medical conditions including bronchitis, heart disease, diabetes, and kidney disease. Influenza vaccinations administered to high-risk people reduce hospitalizations, premature deaths, and they result in substantial cost savings to the health care system.