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Our doctor will discuss your child's health and any of your concerns and examine your child prior to immunisation. Below are the manufacturers recommended guidelines that we follow :-
The child must not be suffering from a fever
Use with caution in:
- Allergy to eggs (please request our egg free vaccine)
- Children under 12 months of age
- Conditions in which fever should be avoided
- HIV infection
- Injury to the brain
Not to be used in :
- Active and untreated tuberculosis
- Blood disorders
- Decreased action of the body's natural defences against disease (impaired response)
- Pregnancy
- Previous extreme allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) to any of the vaccine's components e.g. gelatin
- Previous extreme allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) to the antibiotic Neomycin
- Sudden feverish illness
- Untreated malignant or cancerous disease
Side Effects
Medicines and their possible side effects can affect individual people in different ways; the following are some of the side effects that are known to be associated with the vaccines. It does not mean that all people using these vaccines will have any side effects.
Single Measles vaccine
Adverse reactions : Local redness and/or swelling around the site of the injection are not uncommon and regional lymphadenopathy may occur rarely.
Fever or mild rash, or both, or sore throat, may occur 5 to 12 days after administration of Measles Vaccine. Based on clinical trials, the febrile response would be expected to be mild to moderate in about 95% of cases and high, (›39.4°C) in 4-5% of recipients. With high temperatures the possibility of convulsions developing is present.
Rash may occur in 12 to 16% of vaccines and is usually minimal. Sometimes malaise and dizziness can occur, as well as vasculitis or diarrhoea. In rare cases the nervous system could be affected.
Single Rubella vaccine
Some patients may get a mild non-infectious case of Rubella. The signs for this may appear a few days after the vaccine has been given and could include rash, fever, swollen glands and painful joints.
Single Mumps vaccine
A single dose of Mumpsvax may cause a sharp sting at the injection site due to the slight acidity of the vaccine. Moderate fever occasionally occurs but high fever of >39.4°C is rare. Reactions of swelling and inflammation at the injection site are extremely rare.
Other reactions such as encephalitis or febrile convulsions and nerve deafness have occurred very rarely in individuals, but a causal link could not be established.
Single Chicken Pox Vaccine
Reactions at the injection site are mild and transient;
5% of patients may have a temperature of >37.5°C - 38°C.
Pregnancy and vaccinations
The vaccine virus is not transmitted from vaccines to susceptible contacts. There is thus no risk to pregnant women from contact with recently vaccinated individuals, however if a child's guardian/parent is pregnant please inform us.
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