Contents:
- Medical Video: HPV Vaccine Is Important For Mens Health Too HD
- How important is the HPV vaccine for children?
- When do children need to be given an HPV vaccine?
- Is this HPV vaccine safe to give to children?
Medical Video: HPV Vaccine Is Important For Mens Health Too HD
Cervical cancer is one of the most deadly cancers that attacks women. However, the good news, this cancer can be prevented as early as possible since someone was still a teenager. You can protect your child from cervical cancer by giving him an HPV vaccine.
How important is the HPV vaccine for children?
Cervical cancer is mostly caused by infection with the HPV virus which is usually transmitted through sexual contact. However, the HPV virus can also be transmitted by contact from skin to skin (skin to skin). The World Health Organization (WHO) states that this vaccine is actually needed by children and effectively avoids them from HPV infection at a later time.
This vaccine is recommended for children and adolescents because the antibody response produced is best in their age group. And also in fact, this vaccine will actually work better if given when someone has not been sexually active. The reason is, if someone has already done it sexual, then the risk for HPV exposure already exists.
Experts state that the vaccine is effective in preventing HPV infection by forming sufficient antibodies (immune system) in the body to fight HPV virus infection, making it safe to apply to children.
When do children need to be given an HPV vaccine?
The World Health Organization recommends giving the HPV vaccine first to a child when he is 9 years old. This vaccine is recommended to be given until the age of 55 years.
Especially for children ages 9 to 13 or 14 years, vaccine this is enough to be given twice in a period of 6-12 months. This vaccine can be given to girls and boys.
Is this HPV vaccine safe to give to children?
Naturally, if you are anxious and afraid to give this vaccine to children. Yes, there have been many studies that state that HPV vaccines are safe to give to children and do not cause short-term and long-term side effects. Side effects that your child may feel are just pain when he is injected and the skin of the injection may be slightly reddened. But the rest, the vaccine works well in preventing HPV and does not have a bad impact on health.
In clinical trials and evidence after being used in the real world, the HPV vaccine is considered very safe. More than 205 million doses of vaccine have been distributed worldwide), since it was approved in 2006 by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Leading international health organizations around the world including the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Health Canada, the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and others also continue to recommend use HPV vaccine.
The study that gave the HPV vaccine to 11 thousand women aged 9-26 years, proved that no side effects which endangers health to the study participants. So, you don't need to worry about security. If you are still in doubt, you can discuss this with your pediatrician.
