chepkel wrote:Vaccination is completely important. Kwanza my greatest fear is menengitis. waaarrr i fear that disease to hell!!!!
Nevertheless, I really do not understand these baby friendly stuff. By the way the side effects of the vaccines are not that bad and they last a few hours plus not all vaccines have side effects. In fact, the only one that has side effects ni ile 3 dose pentavalent vaccine. Plus it varies from child to child.
I heard very many stories about this thing and how a child will cry from morning to morning. When my daughter got it, she experienced the normal fever. The nurses had advised me to buy Calpol just in case of the fever. But I never gave it her because in all three occasions she got very hot but still slept soundly. So what i did was to uncover her so that her body can cool down on its own. everything was fine the next day. Halafu i used warm water and a piece of cloth to soothe the point where she was injected.
So for me, these baby friendly vaccines are utterly pointless unless they will add vigor in preventing the disease. But that's just me.
Chep... You could be having the causative organism for meningitis so relax. As long as your immune system it timam you are good to go. Neisseria meningitidis' habitat is the nasopharynx of
upto 10% of healthy people.It is spread through droplets and after acquisition of the organism, there is growth of the organism in the nasopharynx with mild inflammation and most people have no symptoms (that's the 10% of healthy people). There is then the invasion of the blood stream where the organism produces exotoxins which result in Disseminated Intravascular Hemolysis and toxaemia, leading to severe shock and comma. The last stage is the invasion of the meninges causing acute meningococcal meningitis. Symptoms of infection: severe frontal headache, vomiting, stiff-neck, high fever, rigidity of the cervical spine, In majority (70%) of the patients, a purple rash (obviously more visible in lighter skinned populations), appears bleeding into the skin from small blood vessels. The patient usually will proceed into a coma.