The influenza vaccine

Although not dangerous, is the influenza activity and lower productivity. Not so often about, should do the vaccinations.

Influenza or commonly called the flu is an infection of the disease that can cause fever, shivering, cough, pain in the body, headache, and sometimes ear pain or sinus problems. Influenza virus is more attack anyone regardless of age, although more attack children.

"Influenza virus can spread from one person to another person. The virus is transmitted through coughing or sneezing of people with the influenza," said Doctor Specialist Diseases Tropikal from Pondok Indah Hospital, Jakarta, Dr Hindra Irawan Satari SpA (K) M. Trop. Paed the familiar disapa dr. Hinky.

Sometimes, the disease will be cured with influenza itself, or at least cough and general weakness may settle until more than two weeks. However, the level of healing that is different, depending on one's endurance of the body.

For some people who previously have had a heart trouble and tuberculosis, influenza can cause disease pneumonia secondary. While in children, this disease can cause high fever, so resembles sepsis, and 20 percent of children treated inap experience fever convulsions.

If left as such, flu can lead to complications, including otitis media (acute ear infection), sinusitis, bronchitis chronicles, and pneumonia. Of them, pneumococcal pneumonia is a complication that occurs frequently and most seriously. Therefore, the appropriate handling required for those suffering from flu, especially for children.

Therefore, it is important prevention is done. In which prevention can be done by giving the vaccinations should be provided since early on who is exposed to the risk of flu. Hinky, said the vaccination is given to them in a healthy condition.

"Vaccination aims to prevent the occurrence of disease, and ideally be in healthy condition," said a doctor who is also berpraktik in this RSCM.

Hinky say, for influenza vaccination, this new found vaccination to prevent the occurrence of influenza type A. Type-A influenza vaccination has been found since 1950s. "The vaccine can be given on the age of 6 months," he said.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that the U.S. flu vaccine given to their condition in pregnancy, age 50 years or more and have a chronic medical condition, and children's nurse or health service workers or live with or care for someone who is exposed to high risk of flu complications

While they have postponed or avoided from influenza vaccination is they have a history of egg allergy or food substances that contain the same protein in the eggs, hipersensitivitas history with the vaccine or are in a state of fever. The vaccine is also not permitted for people with Guillain-Barre syndrome (a disease autoimunitas serious attack on the nerves outside the brain and the spinal nerve).

Referred by medical doctors as well as general coordinator of the Global Assistance and Healthcare, dr. Olivia Aviany Ayuningthias which cite data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U.S., 2009, that in the United States, each year 5 percent to 20 percent of the population exposed to flu and more than 200,000 lives treated in the hospital because of flu complications, 36,000 more lives died because of complications from the flu worst.

"Flu is not well can cause dangerous complications, because the effect can attack all organs," a medical graduate of Christian University of Indonesia.

Olivia explains, influenza vaccination is the primary method in the prevention of influenza. Use to limit complications from the disease. Influenza vaccine, there are only one type, but for every year of change in the strain in the vaccine. "The only differentiate the brand and manufacturer of the vaccine is. All the same effective in accordance with the results of clinical tests of each," he said.
(Koran SI / SI Koran / tty)