Contents:
- Medical Video: What Are Sleep Disorders? | Child Psychology
- What is contained in the vaccine?
- Why do babies get better sleep after the vaccine?
Medical Video: What Are Sleep Disorders? | Child Psychology
Every baby is important to get a vaccine even when they are new. Vaccination aims to stimulate the body's immune system that is not strong enough to be immune from future diseases. Uniquely, many parents realize that their babies tend to sleep better after the vaccine. I wonder why?
What is contained in the vaccine?
Vaccines are made from seeds of disease viruses or agents that contain certain poisons or proteins, which have been weakened or turned off.
Vaccination works to mimic the disease infection caused by the seed. But because it has been weakened, the seeds will not cause disease in the human body. They will stimulate the immune system to react. The immune system will regard the vaccine seeds as aliens that will attack the body. The immune system will then produce antibodies to eradicate the vaccine. From there, the immune system will remember the alias to form a memory of the event.
Giving a vaccine will reduce the risk of the baby getting sick later on because his immune system is not as mature as an adult. There are currently many vaccines available and some of them are required to be given to babies since birth, such as polio vaccine, measles, hepatitis, and many more. Vaccines can be given by drops (oral) or injections.
Even though it is effective in preventing disease, vaccines can cause side effects such as mild fever and pain or redness at the injection site that is harmless and can subside on its own with time.
Why do babies get better sleep after the vaccine?
Sleeping after a vaccine seems to be the body's natural response to adapting to vaccination. Reporting from WebMD, researcher Linda Frank, RN, PhD from the University of California, San Francisco explained that sleep is an activity that is very important for increasing the immune response. That is, the baby's immune system works more optimally when he is sleeping so that the effects of vaccination can work more optimally in the body.
Recently a study showed that vaccines given after 1:30 a.m. could make babies nap up to 70 minutes longer than their sleep time before being given the vaccine.
In addition, sleeping well after the vaccine may also be affected by anxious babies and fatigue due to fatigue in pain due to injections or after taking medication to reduce paracetamol fever. Paracetamol is usually given twice, which is 30 minutes before the vaccine and 4 hours later after the vaccine. Reporting from Pediatrics, paracetamol drugs work to reduce the body temperature of babies who have fever so that it provides an opportunity for children to sleep longer.
Not only that. It turns out there is a connection between the time of administration of the vaccine, the child's body temperature, and the administration of paracetamol with deep sleep. The baby's body temperature continues to increase from morning to afternoon, and after that it will come back down to stimulate the production of the hormone melatonin which makes him sleepy and eventually sleep.
The study above found that administering the vaccine during the day (after 1:30 p.m.) when the temperature of a baby is dropping and supplemented with the administration of paracetamol that affects the baby's body temperature is likely to be the reason why the baby sleeps better after the vaccine.
