Vaccination involves the introduction of special drugs to develop a human immune defense against certain infections to prevent their development or reduce its negative consequences. There are schedules of routine vaccination, according to which most people in childhood were vaccinated. But hardly everyone knows that adults need to do certain vaccinations. It is about those vaccines, the effect of which has been going on for years, and therefore they are reintroduced to maintain immune defense against dangerous infections, which is called re-immunization.
In addition, many adults, especially those suffering from certain chronic pathologies that have weak immunity and are at increased risk of infection, as well as women planning to conceive a child, doctors recommend that some diseases be vaccinated. Let us consider which vaccinations are made by an adult.
The main list of vaccinations recommended to an adult
Here is the list of vaccines that should be done:
- From tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough - this inoculation should be done every 10 years. Pregnant women who were vaccinated more than a decade ago are recommended to be vaccinated in the second or third trimester. From tetanus vaccination is made necessarily after an animal's bite or in the presence of a lacerated wound.
- From chickenpox it is recommended that adults who have not received this vaccination in childhood and who have not had chickenpox (also if there are no exact data on whether the person was sick with chickenpox in childhood) is recommended.
- From measles, mumps and rubella - vaccination is recommended for those people who did not receive at least one dose of this vaccine and did not suffer from any of these diseases.
- From human papillomavirus - to be vaccinated should, in the first place, young girls because of the danger of developing cervical cancer , provoked by this infection.
- From influenza - annual vaccinations are shown to people at increased risk of getting this disease or those who can develop severe consequences as a result of infection.
- From hepatitis A - it is recommended for people suffering from liver diseases, medical workers, and also dependent on alcohol and narcotic drugs.
- From hepatitis B - vaccination is necessary in the same cases as listed for vaccination against hepatitis A, as well as with the frequent change of sexual partners.
- From pneumococcus - it is recommended to elderly people who smoke, and also with frequent diseases of the lower respiratory tract.
- From meningococcus - vaccination is done by adults, often staying in large groups.
- From tick-borne encephalitis virus - is necessary for those who plan to stay in conditions with a high risk of infection.
Effects of vaccinations in adults
If all the conditions are met and there are no contraindications to the vaccine being administered, complications after vaccination in adults develop rarely.