When does pneumonia vaccine hit? Time for children and old people?

summary

Pneumonia in children is the most common disease in various infections, it has its own characteristics, inflammatory lesions spread along the bronchus, easy to develop into severe pneumonia, high mortality. Therefore, the medical community has developed pneumonia vaccine for a long time, and the United States, Canada and other developed countries have also been in clinical application for more than ten years. Now let's talk about when the pneumonia vaccine will be given.

When does pneumonia vaccine hit? Time for children and old people?

First of all: there are 23 subtypes of pneumococci, so the most comprehensive pneumonia vaccine is 23 valent vaccine, which can cover all 23 subtypes. There are more 7-valent vaccines on the market, which can be used to prevent 7 common subtypes. Children over 3 months old can fight. At present, there are not many domestic vaccines. Specific vaccination, in three and a half months, four and a half months, five and a half months each hit one, one year old again hit one, you can continue immunization, immunization period for 5 years to 8 years. In recent years, 23 valent vaccine has been used in clinic in China. It is generally recommended to vaccinate children over two years old and the elderly over 60 years old. Now it seems that the preventive effect is better.

Secondly, pneumonia vaccines are all aimed at pneumonia caused by pneumococci, but have no effect on pneumonia caused by viral pneumonia and Mycoplasma chlamydia. 30% - 50% of pneumonia in children is viral pneumonia, including adenoviral pneumonia with high mortality. Vaccine has little effect on it.

Finally: if your child's physique is poor, especially often get pneumonia, and your family's economic conditions are better, you can consider taking pneumonia vaccine.

matters needing attention

Children with fever and cold are mostly upper respiratory tract infections. If the constitution is weak, the inflammation will develop downward and become pneumonia. In the judgment of illness, in addition to body temperature, we need to focus on observing the child's mental state, and those who are depressed should seek treatment as soon as possible.