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Vaccinations- Are they effective?

Introduction How are they made? History The Polio Vaccine The Rubella Vaccine e-mail us TB & MMR

The Tetanus Vaccine The Meningococcal C Vaccine How they work! Who should be vaccinated? Disadvantages

Side Effects

General Side effects of Vaccinations

Vaccination Induced Side Effects (VISE)

Specific Side Effects Causes of Side Effects

Local Erythemas - severe swelling of the skin or mucous membrane associated with local swelling. Minor examples include sunburn and blushing.

Fever

Irritability

Tiredness

General Rashes (acute urticaria)
Conjunctivitis – redness and swelling of glands in the eye.
Vascular Disorders – Disorders of the vessels in the body, i.e. blood vessels.
Peripheral Tremor
Cough
Post-vaccinal meningitis (aseptic meningitis)
Guillain-Barre syndrome – Inflammation of the nerves.
Brachial Neuritis – painful nerve inflammation in the arm and shoulder which can progress for many months.
Anaphylactic Shock – Sudden severe reaction to the introduction of a substance to which the body is hypersensitive.
Multiple Sclerosis
Asthma
Chronic Arthritis
Mild Brain Damage
Brain Inflammation
Parotid Swelling – Swelling of Salivary glands in the jaw.
Febrile Convulsions – Seizure caused by rapidly rising or very high fever.
Myelitis – Disorder of spinal cord.
Neuritis – Inflammation of a nerve.
Malaise – Vague feeling of weakness and fatigue

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Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine (M.M.R.) Live

Side Effects- Local redness-7.2% Severe- myelitis

Rash-7.1% Neuritis

Fever-6.4%

Local pain-3.1%

Local swelling-2.6%

Parotid swelling-0.7%

Febrile convulsions- 0.1%

Meningitec - Meningococcal Group C – Conjugate Vaccine

Side Effects-

Infants Teenagers All Age Groups

Crying Muscle pain Redness

Vomiting Malaise Swelling

Irritability Nausea

Loss of appetite Enlarged lymph glands

Drowsiness Vomiting

Fever Dizziness

Diarrhoea

Fluvirin- Influenza

Side effects- High temperature Severe Affect brain

Shivering Affect nerves

Tiredness Affect kidneys

Headache

Poliomyelitis Vaccine (live) – Polio

Side-effects - Rash Severe – Paralysis

Tightness in the throat (loss of movement)

Shortness of breath

Absorbed Tetanus Vaccine, BP ( Tet/Vac/Ads)

Side-effects- Swelling Severe - Numbness

Redness Weakness

Pain Large skin swellings

Pins and needles

Tender skin

3-in-1 vaccine – Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus

Side effects- Severe fever Severe – Brain damage

Soreness

Itchy skin

Loss of consciousness

BCG Vaccine – Tuberculosis

Side effects- swelling Severe – Brain damage

Soreness Brain inflammation

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Reactions to vaccines occur from a number of ingredients for a number of reasons: these are reactions to toxic substances, insufficiently weakened or inactivated vaccines and allergic reactions. Side affects resulting from vaccines are rare.

Aluminium, formaldehyde and mercury are highly toxic substances which cause hazardous effects. Studies confirm that even microscopic amounts of these toxins can cause cancer, neurological disease and death. Despite this, each of these can be found in childhood vaccines in one form or another. These vaccines are injected directly into the bloodstream. The introduction of toxins into the bloodstream can cause serious long term and unforeseen damages. The damages include inflammatory bowel disease, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and brain damage.

When a virus is injected directly into the bloodstream, it bypasses many of the body’s natural defence systems. Where as, with a natural infection, the virus would enter through the throat and nose. The pertussis vaccine has proven to be the main culprit in SIDS. This vaccine is made from the dead or inactivated pertussis virus. It commonly causes mild side effects such as irritability and fever.

In live vaccines such as the MMR and Oral Polio Vaccines, occasionally the virus may not be sufficiently weakened and could cause the diseases they are supposed to protect against. One such example occurred in Berlin in 1960, where 25 cases of paralytic polio were reported within 4 weeks after using an insufficiently attenuated vaccine.

The ingredients in both the influenza and Absorbed Tetanus BP vaccine that causes the allergic reactions is called Thimerosal ( a mercury derivative). Hypersensitivity may be due to additives in vaccines like neomycin in the MMR and Thimerosal, used as a preservative in DTP. Adverse reactions are often due to contaminants which are not antigens, in the vaccines. These are substances like substances from the cells in which the vaccines are grown or insufficiently purified antigens. Allergic reactions can result from almost any ingredient in vaccines but the ones named above are the most common allergens.

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