Contents:
- Medical Video: Are Vaccines Safe?
- What are the signs and symptoms of dengue fever?
- All about dengue vaccine, immunization to prevent the dengue fever medicine as well
- Is this dengue vaccine safe?
- Underage children are not advised to get a dengue vaccine
Medical Video: Are Vaccines Safe?
DHF (Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever), or better known as dengue fever, is caused by a dengue virus carried by mosquitoesAedes aegypti. Indonesia is the second country in the world with the highest number of dengue cases. To prevent dengue fever, fogging is usually carried out routinely to kill mosquitoes and their larvae. However, prevention also remains to be done from yourself. One of them is to get a dengue vaccine in a hospital, as a way to prevent dengue fever drugs that can ward off viruses that are increasingly developing in the body.
Here are all the information you need to know about dengue vaccine for dengue fever.
What are the signs and symptoms of dengue fever?
DHF is caused by the dengue virus. There are 4 serotypes of dengue virus, namely DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-2, and DEN-4.
Common symptoms of dengue fever are sudden high fever, gnarling, muscle pain, headache, pain behind the eyeball, nausea, vomiting, skin rash, weakness, and decreased appetite. Fever usually lasts 2-7 days and can reach temperatures up to 41⁰C.
If it is not quickly dealt with, dengue fever can develop more severely and risk causing fatal complications - such as swelling of the liver and a decrease in drastic blood pressure that can cause shock. Shock occurs due to drastic drop in blood pressure in a short time, so that the blood is no longer able to deliver oxygen and nutrients to important organs in the body. If it reaches the shock stage, this condition is called Dengue shock syndrome (DSS). Shock of untreated DHF can lead to death.
All about dengue vaccine, immunization to prevent the dengue fever medicine as well
The World Health Organization (WHO) asserts that dengue vaccine as a way to prevent and cure dengue fever can be given to people aged 9-45 years, especially for those who live in dengue-prone areas. This vaccine is given 3 times with a distance between giving 6 months. But based on research, the effectiveness of the dengue vaccine will be most effective if given to children aged 9-16 years.
The dengue vaccine can still be given even though you have had dengue fever before. As explained above, viruses Dengue has 4 different serotypes. Well, you usually only get one viral serotype at one time. Through dengue vaccine, your body can build immunity to all dengue virus serotypes.
Is this dengue vaccine safe?
Not many know that actually the dengue vaccine has long been in Indonesia, but is in the phase of research in phase III clinical trials to test the benefits and safety of vaccines. Phase III is the last phase before finally being marketed and its effectiveness is observed on a large scale.
Although not yet widely available, this dengue vaccine has been approved by BPOM (Drug and Food Supervisory Agency). Currently there are 10 countries in the world that have approved the use of dengue vaccines, namely Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Honduras, and Colombia.
To get a dengue vaccine, you can come directly to the nearest hospital or health clinic and ask for availability. Unfortunately this vaccine does not yet exist in the Puskesmas because it has not yet entered the national immunization program. At present the price is still quite expensive, which is around 1 million rupiah per 1 injection of vaccine. However, you need to remember that the complications of dengue fever are very dangerous. Therefore, prevention in the form of vaccination is still needed.
Underage children are not advised to get a dengue vaccine
The dengue vaccine will be most effective as a prevention and cure for dengue fever when given to children aged 9-16 years. But if your child has not reached this age, you should not first give a dengue vaccine.
Because, if the dengue vaccine is given too early in children under the age of 9 years, this vaccine can increase the risk of children undergoing hospitalization that takes a long time. The risk of suffering from severe DHF can also increase, which certainly carries the risk of danger and its complications.
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