Contents:
- Medical Video: Child Vaccinations - The Doctors Debate
- Overview of dengue vaccine, immunization to prevent dengue fever drugs as well
- When can I get a DHF vaccine for children?
- Read this before giving a vaccine to your child
Medical Video: Child Vaccinations - The Doctors Debate
Indonesia itself is the second country in the world with the highest number of dengue cases after Brazil. In addition to through fogging and 3M principles (Closing-Draining-Burying), prevention of dengue fever must start from within the body through the protection of dengue vaccine. Fortunately, the dengue vaccine has officially circulated in Indonesia after receiving approval from BPOM in 2016. Then, when is the right time to provide dengue vaccine for children?
Overview of dengue vaccine, immunization to prevent dengue fever drugs as well
Dengue virus is the cause of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) which is transmitted through mosquito bites Aedes aegypti. The vaccine that is injected into your child's body contains a dengue virus that has been turned off. This will help the child's immune system to form antibodies that function to recognize the potential of foreign substances and fight viruses or bacteria that enter the body.
The dengue virus itself has 4 different serotypes: DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-2, and DEN-4. Well, you usually only get one viral serotype at one time. Through dengue vaccine, your body can build immunity to all dengue virus serotypes. This vaccine is given 3 times with a distance per 6 months.
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.
When can I get a DHF vaccine for children?
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. But based on research, the effectiveness of DHF vaccines for children will be most effective if given to age of 9-16 years.
According to research published in New England Journal of Medicine, DHF vaccine for children aged 9-16 years can reduce the risk of contracting dengue fever by 65.6 percent. This can also prevent high cases of dengue fever which must be hospitalized by up to 80 percent, and cases of severe dengue fever by 93 percent.
Even so, hold your intention to give the dengue vaccine if your child has not reached this age limit. 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 for suffering from severe DBD can also increase. This certainly brings the risk of danger and its complications.
Read this before giving a vaccine to your child
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.
Dengvaxia is the first dengue vaccine the output of the Sanofi pharmaceutical company that got permission to be marketed to the public. Recently, according to the NYtimes, the company revealed that the Dengvaxia vaccine can prevent recurrent infections in someone who has been infected with dengue before. Even so, if a child has never been infected with a DHF before, giving a DHF vaccine to a child can actually increase the risk infected with dengue later on.
The claim made the Philippine government simultaneously stop the national dengue vaccine program after giving it to lmore than 740,000 elementary school students in the Philippines. This was done as an anticipation step for the Philippine government against possible riskshis health.
Still don't know how long this vaccine will be terminated. During termination, various health professionals will continue to explore more about its effectiveness and safety.
