DPT vaccine

The Communicable Disease: Pertussis Pertussis is a highly infectious disease. It is also known as whooping cough. For more than a decade, pertussis has become a significant public health problem. CDC reports that since the 1980s, there has been an increase in the number of reported cases of pertussis in the United States (2011a). Worldwide, there are 30-50 million cases of pertussis and about 300,000 deaths per year (CDC, 2011a). Public Health Nurses play an important role in limiting the transmission

“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success”, Henry Ford once said. These wise words spoken by Henry Ford inadvertently relate to how a family works together to adapt to life changes. There are countless obstacles and hardships that people encounter as they journey through life. Having strong, stable, and supportive relationships allow people to be resilient to the hardships. A family subsystem provides support to the changes that occur throughout life

Disease is treated with antibiotics. As an infant you should safely be give the DPT vaccine. This vaccine is a three in one vaccine that protects against diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus. The vaccine has some side effects as slight fever, crankiness, and tenderness of skin. DPT is usually given in the leg or the arm. You can also be give the DT vaccine. The DT vaccine is a two in one vaccine. This vaccine should be given to children less than seven years old. This is given in the arm

INFANT AND CHILD VACCINES When you are a parent, you can do anything to protect your child and keep them safe and healthy. Vaccines is the vital way to do that. For neonates, mother’s breast milk can help protect against many diseases. It contains antibodies passed from the mother. However, this immunity wears off within a year, and many children aren’t breastfed to begin with. In both cases, vaccines can help protect babies and small children from disease. They can also help prevent the spread of

received 1 vaccine, smallpox. About 40 years ago children received 5 vaccines, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, smallpox and polio. Today a child receives 52 vaccines, 15 of these shots are by the age of 16 months (http://tuberose.com). By the time another 100 years go by it is possible that our children will receive double the amount of vaccinations of today which would put children receiving about

common vaccines that children and/or adults can receive to protect them against harmful diseases. The most common vaccines include influenza, DPT, MMR, and varicella, also known as chickenpox. Vaccinating your kids and yourself is very important to remaining healthy and prevent many serious diseases (Heusel). The most common vaccination available is the influenza vaccine. It is used to prevent the flu and has been available in the United States for more than 50 years (Flu). The more

of hospitals, enduring surgeries, wheelchairs, leg braces, and years of physical therapy before he was able to walk. Why, at a time when the Salk vaccine was available, did my great grandmother, a woman totally dedicated to the welfare of her children, choose not to vaccinate him against what was then the great terror of childhood? LIFE BEFORE VACCINES No disease has had such a profound impact on humanity as smallpox. The Plague of Antonine, “with a death toll of between three and a half to seven

regarding childhood vaccinations. For the sake of their children, they need to take advantage of the informative and reliable sources that are available on the Internet and in public libraries regarding this topic. They will find that kids are being vaccine injured and even killed because of the toxins that are being pumped into their tiny bodies. Parents have been ill-informed, even misled, when it comes to the safety and effectiveness of childhood vaccinations. Children in the United States receive

infection. However, the immunization against pertussis has two vaccines; DPT and DTaP. DPT contains whole cell pertussis which is pertussis bacteria chemically and heat treated while the DTap version has less bioactive pertussis toxin, both these vaccines are also used to prevent diphtheria and tetanus. DTaP has replaced DPT in numerous countries as it has been deemed safer; DTap will also be the vaccine most referred to as the discontinuation of DPT makes it irrelevant to the purpose of determining whether

The Anti-Vaccine Movement Although the MMR link to autism is one of the most recent anti-vaccine incidences, the anti-vaccine movement didn’t begin with the suggestion that MMR caused autism. Previous vaccine scare incidences arose prior to the 1998 study on MMR that fueled more anti-vaccine sentiments. Offit (2011) claims that the modern American anti-vaccine movement began when a documentary titled DPT: Vaccine Roulette, aired on April 19, 1982. The documentary questioned the safety and effectiveness