Immunization schedule for infants  by  Mary Komen

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DEFINITION OF TERMS

Immunizations a process whereby a person is made immune or resistant to an infectious disease by the administration of a vaccine.

Vaccine:medicine given to people to protect them against diseases.

Vaccination:process of giving a vaccine.

IMMUNISATION SCHEDULE

  • AT  BIRTH
  • BCG- is given through injetion on the left lower arm.
  • BCG is the vaccine that leaves a scar on the body.
 
Administering BCG Vaccine
 
POLIO
 
  • polio is also called poliomyelitis.The disease kills the nerve cells and brain and spinal cord causing paralysis.
  • The child becomes paralysed on the hands ,legs and other parts of the body.
  • The vaccine is called oral polio vaccine(OPV).
  • The vaccine is administered in oral dosage _ drops through the mouth. 

Polio vaccine is given four times namely:

  • At  birth
  • Six weeks
  • Ten weeks
  • Fourteen weeks

A child being given polio vaccine:

 DPT  VACCINE

  • DPT stands for Diphtheria,pertussis and Tetanus.
  • DPT  is a triple is a triple vaccine because it is
  administered three times namely
  • 6 weeks
  • 10 weeks
  • 14weeks

This child is suffering from?

•Measles.
•rashes on the skin
 
How is measles vaccine given?
  • Anti_measles given at the age of 9 months ,on the upper arm through injections.
IMMUNISABLE SCHEDULE FOR CHILDREN
  • Birth_polio,Tuberculosis,Hepatitis B
  • 6 weeks_DPT(diptheria,Pertussis,Tetanus)Haemophilus inflenzae Type B(Hib)Hepatitis B(HepB),polio,Rotavirus
  • 10weeks_DPT(Diptheria,Pertussis,Tetanus)Haemophilus influenzaeTypeB(Hib),HepatitisB(HepB),polio,pneumonia,Rotavirus
  • 14weeks_,DPT(Diptheria,Pertussis,Tetanus)Haemophilus inflenzae TypeB(Hib),HepatitisB(HepB),polio,pneumonia
  • 9months_measles
OTHER IMMUNISABLE DISEASES
  • Typhoid
  • Yellow Fever
  • Rabies
  • MMR(mumps,measles,Rubella)
  • Hepatitis B
  • Pneumococcal disease
  • Menacatra
  • Mumps
  • Influenza
  • Cholera
 
BENEFITS OF IMMUNISATION
  • Childs health
  • Eradication
  • Protection of others

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Campaign against polio

 

sample of immunisation card

This child is suffering from?

Diptheria

 

 symptoms of diptheria

  • swollen glands in the neck(enlarged lymph nodes)
  • a thick grey membrane covering Your throat

 

Name the vaccine used to immunise children against tetanus

 

Name five diseases other than other than tetanus against which children are immunised.

  1. Tuberculosis
  2. Whooping cough
  3. Polio
  4. Measles,diptheria.



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