HendersonVille Vaccine Awareness Network

Article by Beverly Sugarman

Vaccinations are a miracle of modern science. Thanks to these injections, diseases kill in the past have almost completely disappeared. After the birth of a new baby, most clinics give new parents a booklet with immunization schedule that your doctor may first given a pill. Looking at the list of vaccines, many young parents do not understand what vaccines for themselves. To understand the need for vaccination, you must first understand the disease, which protects it from.

The first vaccination should receive a new baby in your labeled HepB. This abbreviation stands for Hepatitis B, a serious virus that attacks the liver. This disease may liver lifelong infection, cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), liver failure and death. The virus is transmitted when blood blood of an infected person to a non-infected occurs. The disease can be infected from the mother to the baby during labor were transferred. It is also common for children of immigrants is higher in areas known hepatitis B is recommended

most obstetricians pregnant hepatitis B should check to determine if they have the disease, not many infected people do not realize they have the virus. The result of this test can determine when your baby gets his first dose should HepB. For babies, mothers tested positive test results were inconclusive, the vaccine within 12 hours of the birth of a child is given. In the case of mother tests negative for hepatitis B, your doctor may delay giving the green light for a few days, if there is an urgent medical problem to be solved. Since the highly contagious disease, the HepB vaccine mandatory, even if negative tests definitely not infected.

be required after the first dose of HepB, at different doses to protect your baby fully. Second dose should be administered at age 1-2 months. HepB vaccine is monovalent and combination vaccine containing HepB. Depending on the baby got it on his schedule. If monovalent HepB is provided during his two months, your baby will not need to repeat dose vaccine at four months. If the combined vaccine was used, your baby will need a different vaccine at four months. Final dose of HepB can be given anytime after 24 weeks (age 6 months). Babies born to infected mothers should be tested after the third dose of vaccine to determine if further treatment is required.

Hepatitis B is a serious disease and fatal. Here too are many infected people fail to realize that they have the disease. Since your new baby with HepB vaccine injection, you can protect him if he would come in contact with an infected person.

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