Immunisations Flashcards
(26 cards)
Which vaccines are live attenuated?
BCG MMR Oral polio vaccine Chicken pox (varicella) Influenza Rotavirus
Which vaccines are inactivated?
Polio Influenza Hep A & B Tetanus Diptheria Pertussis HPV Men C
What vaccines are given at 2 months?
DTP Polio PCV Rotavirus Men B
What vaccines are given at 3 months ld?
DTP Polio Hib Men C Rotavirus
What vaccines are given at 4 months old?
DTP
PCV
Men B
What vaccines are given at 12/13 months?
Hib
Men C
MMR
Men B
How is roatvirus vaccine aministerd?
Oral application
When vaccine is given in 2-17 y/o annually?
Influenza
What vaccines have to given between the age of 3yrs 4 months - 5 years?
DTP
MMR
What is the vaccination schedule for HPV vaccine?
Girl aged 12-14
Course of 2 injections at least 6 months apart
How many injections should be given in the one limb?
less than 2 ideally
What are the contrindications for a vaccine?
Previous confirmed anaphylaxis
Immunosupression
Pregnancy
Anaphylatic reaction to egg
which vaccines are not safe in an egg allergy?
Live flu vaccine
Yellow fever
Why are vaccines avoided in acutely ill children?
To prevent vaccine potentially being held responsible for symptoms
Does prematurity affect the timing of vaccines?
No.
Babies should always get their first vaccine 2 months after birth
Presentation of diptheria
URTI characterised by sore throat , low grade fever
White adherent membrane on the tonsils, pharnyx and/or nasal cavity
What infections does HiB cause?
Meningitis & Srpticaemia
Epliglottitis
Which serogroup of meningitis is most serioud?
Serogroup B
Why is BCG not given to everyone?
Not cost effective
What is the elimination of a disease?
Reduction to sero of the incidence of a specified disease in a defined geographical area
Continued intervention measures required
Whta is the eradication of a disease?
Permanent reduction of a disease to zero incidence of a disease worldwide
Intervention measures no longer required
What is the extinction of a disease?
The specific infectious agent no longer eists in nature or in the laboratory
Treatment of pertussis?
Oral erthyromycin
Immediate complications of mumps infection
Pancreatitis
Pneumonia
