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Tracking your child’s immunization schedule is important for parents and care providers. Each vaccine usually has a recommended schedule for management, and some vaccines may be new or unfamiliar to you, such as HIB vaccine.
The B incentive flu vaccine is recommended, or HIB, for children between the ages of 2 and 15 months to protect from HIB infection. Although “influenza” is in the name, HIB is actually bacteria and does not cause influenza. However, HIB infections can cause a serious disease, so it is important to protect your child from it.
But what is HIB, and how does this vaccine differ from others in the schedule for your child’s vaccines? We have answers to all your HIB vaccine questions, including potential side effects and what a HIB vaccine looks like for both children and adults.
What is the HIB vaccine? It is the best protection against HIB infection.
The HIB vaccine was presented for the first time in 1985 with a new and more effective shape in 1987. It is a vascular vaccine usually managed to children under the age of 5 years. Many compound vaccines also protect from HIB, as well as conditions such as diphtheria, tetanus and a lot of whooping cough.
What is HIB infection?
HIB is a type of bacteria that often lives in the lining of the nose and throat. It can cause many types of infections and diseases. These infections usually affect children of 5 -year -old and under, but sometimes they may affect adults who are more severe.
What is the infection that the HIB vaccine protects?
HIB bacteria can cause moderate diseases such as bronchitis or otitis, to more serious diseases such as meningitis, pneumonia and a gaseous HIB disease, which is a severe blood infection that requires hospitalization for treatment and can threaten life.
While the serious disease is rare, it is important to ensure that your child is protected. In fact, before creating a HIB vaccine, HIB was the main cause of bacterial meningitis for children under the age of 5 in the United States. Bacterial meningitis is a serious infection in the lining of the brain and spinal cord that can lead to brain damage and deafness.
Since infants and young children under the age of 5 are at risk of HIB and serious disease, it is important to follow the recommended vaccine schedule to ensure maximum protection against HIB.
Is the HIB vaccine the same is the hepatitis B vaccine?
No, HIB vaccine and hepatitis B vaccine are not identical – the two conditions are not linked. HIB is a type of bacteria that causes many types of different diseases, such as bacterial meningitis, while hepatitis B is the name of the virus and liver infection that causes it.
Effectiveness of HIB vaccine and possible side effects
The HIB vaccine is among the many other recommended vaccinations in childhood to help protect small immune systems for children. Here is what the parents and caregivers should know about the effectiveness of vaccine and possible side effects.
HIB vaccine is very effective
According to CDC Centers (CDC), HIB vaccines are very effective in the production of HIB immunity. More than 95 % of children develop protective antibodies after receiving a preliminary chain of 2-3 doses. HIB invasive disease in the infant, which has been fully vaccinated is rare.
To put this in its right quorum, before serving a HIB vaccine, about 20,000 children in the United States became seriously ill with HIB disease every year, and about 1,000 children died annually. But thanks to the wide -ranging vaccination, today it occurs less than 50 cases each year in the United States, a 99.75 % decrease in HIB cases and a strong example of how to save the vaccines.
If a person has any HIB vaccine side effects, they are usually moderate. The most common side effects can include itching and redness at the site of injection and low fever.
HIB vaccination schedule: What parents should know
HIB’s childhood immunization is usually given in 3-4 doses or as part of a mixture vaccine. The vaccine is an injection in the thigh muscle of the infants and the delightful muscle (the upper arm) for the older children.
Children usually receive the dose of the first dose of HIB vaccine at the age of two months, then again at the age of 4 months, 6 months and 12 to 15 months. The 6 -month -old dose may not be necessary, because some types of HIB vaccine require only three doses. Children between the ages of 15 and 5 years should receive at least one HIB vaccine.
While children over 5 years of age and adults do not usually receive a HIB vaccine, those who suffer from certain health conditions, including:
- People who have been damaged or removed, including people with sickle cell diseases
- People who are undergoing surgery to remove the spleen
- People who received bone marrow transplantation
- Children from 5 to 18 years of immunodeficiency
Vaccine schedules are essential to ensure appropriate protection against preventive diseases and diseases. In order to better protect from HIB disease and diseases that HIB can cause, it is important to follow the tables of vaccination of children and the recommended adults from the Disease Control Center.
Talk to your doctor about a HIB vaccine or your child’s vaccination schedule
If you have questions, we have answers. We have a team of family medicine and pediatricians who are pediatric health experts. They can talk to you about specific vaccines, wander for you during the vaccination schedule, and make recommendations based on your child’s medical history and immunization, and more.
The fortification schedules are in line with good visits, so if your child is worthy of his next examination, you will be able to get any recommended vaccines at that time. If your child needs to catch the vaccines, you can only make a fortification date.
