OPV is a very safe vaccine and the child rarely has any reactions following a dose. However, there is a 1 in 8.7 million risk of paralysis and a negligible risk that a susceptible member of the household might contract polio from an immunized child.
What is OPV and what are its side effects
Usually four doses of this polio vaccine are administered to the child: at two, three and four months and then again between three and five years. It is a very safe vaccine and the child rarely has any reactions following a dose. However, there is a 1 in 8.7 million risk of paralysis and a negligible risk that a susceptible member of the household might contract polio from an immunized child.
When should OPV not be given
Doctors should refrain from giving the live oral polio vaccine to children who have cancer, whose immune systems are weakened because they are ill or under medication. It is also not advisable for babies who live in a household where there is a person whose immune system is deficient. In such cases, it is advisable to administer an injectable, inactivated vaccine.
Name:
pinky
Country: India
in india is any hospital use ipv vacine
Name:
Dangskie
Country: philippines
every household member should responcible eough on this matter so that sooner or later that this diseases will come they are already prepared and ready to cure for it......furthermore, every individual also must have faith if they have already this kind of diseases that they will be healed by our almight god...i short direct healing, because in him othing is impossible....
Name:
Hannah
Country: usa
"there is a...risk of
paralysis and a
negligible risk that a
susceptible member of the
household might contract
polio from an
immunized child."
this is true because the opv
contains a live virus. the opv
is not longer used in the united
states because it is
considered too dangerous.
why can't india use the safer,
killed virus vaccine, the one
now used in the usa?
Name:
Ranjit
Country: india
i think every parent should keep the polio vaacine date in mind. its really important for the child. as its rightly said that precaution is better than cure.
