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CHILDHOOD VACCINATIONS

Help keep your child healthy

  VaccDiphtheria

a easily spread though coughing or

sneezing

  • early symptoms are sore throat, slight

fever, and chills

  • can interfere with swallowing and

cause suffocation

  • can cause heart failure or paralysis if

not treated

  • can be prevented with the diphtheria,

tetanus, pertussis (DTP) vaccine

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Tetanus

a also known as lockjaw

  • enters the body through a wound
  • produces a poison that affects the

body's nervous system

  • symptoms are headache, irritability,

and stiffness injaw and neck

  • causes muscle spasms in the jaw,

neck, arms, legs, and abdomen

  • may require intensive hospital care
  • three out of every 10 people in the

United States who get tetanus die

  • can be prevented with the vaccine

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Pertussis

a also known as whooping cough

  • highly contagious
  • causes severe spells of coughing that

can interfere with eating, drinking, and

breathing

  • complications may include pneumo-

nia, convulsions, and encephalitis

  • in the United States, about 65 percent

of reported cases occur in children under

5 years of age, and half of those are in-

fants less than 1 year of age

  • in recent years, about 3,500 cases have

been reported in the country

  • can be prevented with the DTP vaccine

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Polio

 

Polio

a serious disease cause paralysis and

death

  • mild cases cause fever, sore throat,

nausea, headaches, and stomachaches

  • stiffness in the neck, back, and legs

also occurs

  • can be prevented with the oral polio

vaccine

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Measles

  • highly contagious
  • causes a rash, high fever, cough, runny

nose, and watery eyes, lasting for one to

two weeks

  • causes ear infections and pneumonia

in one out of every 20 children who get it

  • causes encephalitis, which can lead to

convulsions, deafness, or mental retarda-

tion in one out of every 1,000 children

who get it

  • of every 1,000 children who get

measles, one or two will die

  • the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)

vaccine prevents this disease

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MUMPS

  •   causes fever, headache, and inflamma-

tion of the salivary glands, resulting in

swelling of cheeks orjaw

  • one out of every 10 people who get

mumps may develop meningitis

  • can cause encephalitis
  • can result in permanent hearing loss
  • the vaccine prevents this disease

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Rubella

  • also known as German measles
  • most serious in pregnant women

(There is an 80 percent chance that it will

cause defects in an unborn child if infec-

tion occurs during pregnancy.)

  • symptoms include mild discomfort.

slight fever for 24 hours, and a rash on

the face and neck lasting for two or three

days

  • the vaccine prevents this disease

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Haemophilus influenzae type B

  • also known as HIB disease
  • strikes one child in 200 before age 5
  • most serious in infants under age 1
  • causes pneumonia and infections of

the blood, joints, bones, soft tissues,

throat, and the covering of the heart

  • causes meningitis in about 12,000

children every year; about one in four

suffers permanent brain damage, and

about one in 20 dies

  • the HIB vaccine prevents this disease

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HePatitis B

  • infants born to infected mothers have

up to an 85 percent chance of getting the

infection

  • this infection is spread within families

and communities

  • infection at birth or during early child-

hood can result in long-term chronic

illness

  • chronically infected persons can de-

velop chronic liver disease and a rare

form of cancer

  • the hepatitis B vaccine prevents this

disease

BY LAURIE LAFRAN&127;E HEALTH TALK %

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