Injecting vaccine to protect your child
4/17/2020 2:46:20 PM
Sharing from Dr. Tran Thi Tu Hang - Pediatrician at CarePlus International Clinic
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, everyone must take social distance, besides that, the rain season also comes back. It leads to the risk of increasing pathogen-related to mosquito, for example, Japanese encephalitis. Although the world has vaccine, we are better to take it seriously because prevention is better than cure.
Japanese Encephalitis from death to disability
Japanese Encephalitis is one of the most common central nervous infections in children. It accounts for 67.900 cases of JE annually (World Health Organization 2015). Vietnam is considered to have a high rate of disease among other countries. The disease causes by Culex mosquito (or field mosquito). Normally, the manifestation of JE is a fever with vomiting, in the beginning, then having a headache, convulsion, dizziness to coma, limb weakness.
Is Japanese Encephalitis having medicine?
The prognosis is very bad: 20-30% will die, 50% that survive will have severe sequelae. The most effective way to prevent disease is proactive to inject vaccine.
There are two types of vaccine:
- Vaccine Jevax (expanded immunization): Injection schedule for children over 12 months: two basic shots every 1-2 weeks, repeat after one year, every 3 years to 15 years.
- Vaccine Imojev (vaccination service): this is a new one in Vietnam. Injection schedule for children over 9 months: two shots every at least 12 months.
Can we replace Imojev vaccine instead of Jevax vaccine even being on progress of Jevax Injection schedule? It’s acceptable.
What’s the advantage of Imojev Medicine?
The new Japanese Encephalitis vaccine is injected 9 months sooner compared with the previous also can prevent the disease earlier. Besides, it takes only twice and the period between each is one year.
How was it if you missed the schedule? Still making the next injection without starting from the beginning.
Imojev Medicine is now available at CarePlus.
Contact Free Hotline 18006116 to set an injecting schedule for your child today!