Is pneumonia vaccine useful

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Pneumococci is a very serious disease bacteria, the cause of death of many people around the world is because of it, and it is also the main cause of pneumonia, meningitis, otitis media. So is pneumonia vaccine necessary? What is pneumonia vaccine? What is a seven valent pneumococcal vaccine?

Is pneumonia vaccine useful

First: pneumococci often live in the nasopharynx of healthy people, when people's immunity is low, they will take advantage of the opportunity. If they are vaccinated, they can well prevent the occurrence of pneumonia.

Second: pneumococcal infection, one is from their own carrier, when the resistance is reduced, pneumococcal invasion of the lower respiratory tract causes pneumonia; the second is from the carrier of other people or patients infected, causing pneumonia. In recent years, due to the different degrees of resistance of pneumococci to antibiotics, some areas even reached 50%, which brought difficulties to the treatment of pneumonia. Therefore, we should focus on the prevention of pneumonia, vaccination is a good way to prevent pneumonia.

Third: pneumonia vaccine generally has a certain effect on a specific inflammatory infection, rather than a preventive effect on all inflammatory bacterial infections. Therefore, the use of pneumonia vaccine is not necessary as stipulated by the state, but a voluntary vaccine.

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Pneumonia vaccine can be vaccinated at any time of the year, or at the same time with influenza vaccine, using different syringes in different parts. For convenience, the polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine can be inoculated at the time of annual physical examination or medical treatment. Children should be vaccinated when they are over 2 years old. The protective antibody level can be maintained for at least five years after vaccination. Generally speaking, pneumonia vaccine only needs to be inoculated once, but the weak need to be re inoculated five years after the first vaccination.