Measles vaccination: how much does it have for adults?

Measles is a dangerous virus infection, which annually takes hundreds of thousands of people's lives worldwide. To protect against this serious disease can only help vaccinate against measles. How long does the vaccination work, how long does the resistance of measles persist in the body, what is the disease in general? Let's figure it out in more detail.

Measles

RNA-containing virus is considered the causative agent of the disease. In general, measles are more attributed to childhood illnesses, but if an uninvited adult is infected with the virus, the course of the disease for him passes in the most complicated form, leaving behind various complications. The virus spreads when coughing, sneezing with particles of the patient's mucus, when talking with saliva. An infected person becomes infectious even when he himself does not feel the symptoms of the disease, that is, during the incubation period. The only protection is a measles vaccine. How much it works in the body, this question interests many. Guaranteed you will be protected for 10-12 years, so doctors say.

If a virus enters an unprotected body, the patient begins to notice symptoms more characteristic of many respiratory diseases:

• Fever (temperature up to 40 degrees);
• Pershenie, sore throat;
• Dry cough, runny nose;
• Weakness, malaise;
• headache.

Specific signs of measles include the following symptoms:

• Conjunctivitis and photophobia;
• Severe swelling of the eyelids;
• Rashes on the mucous cheeks appear on the second day (whitish small spots like the grains of manga, which disappear in a day);
• On the 4th-5th day - a rash on the skin, first it appears on the face, then spreads down all over the body.

Possible complications of measles

Save the disease from measles. How much it works, so much and the body will be protected from infection. In unvaccinated children, and even more often in adults, measles causes serious complications:

• A measles or bacterial infection often causes pneumonia;
• bronchitis;
• sinusitis;
• Keratitis (every fifth patient loses vision);
• Meningitis and meningoencephalitis;
• Otitis and eustachiitis (subsequently - hearing loss);
• Pyelonephritis.

In measles, there is no effective antiviral treatment. Only a vaccination carried out in advance rescues a person! In 0.6% of cases, measles is complicated by brain damage (encephalitis), while 25% of patients die.

When to Inoculate

In Russia, measles vaccination has been introduced into the routine vaccination calendar. The child is vaccinated at the age of 1-1.3 years. Revaccination is carried out at 6 years.

Due to the fact that the growth of the disease in 2014 in Russia led to severe consequences among the adult population, it was decided to vaccinate the population. Under the national program, up to the age of 35, a free measles vaccination is introduced. How long does the preparation work? The immunity of the vaccinated person is, on average, resistant to disease of up to 12 years (sometimes longer).

How to be over 35? Vaccination is carried out by all comers, but already on a fee basis. The monovaccine is administered twice with a break of three months. If you once received one vaccine, you need to pass the vaccination anew. No revaccination is performed for adults.

Emergency Immunization

Regardless of the vaccination schedule and schedule, emergency immunization is performed in the following cases:

• In the center of infection, all persons (free of charge) who are in contact with the patient are vaccinated in a three-day period. Unvaccinated children older than one year are included.
• Newborn, if the mother does not have anti-measurable antibodies in her blood. The baby is re-vaccinated at eight months, and then on the calendar.
• When you go abroad, you need to take a measles vaccine a month before your departure. Particular attention goes to Georgia, Thailand, Ukraine, where for the past 3 years, many cases of measles and fatal cases have been recorded. How many years the measles vaccine works, they know in the visiting services. Vaccination will be noted in your documents, and this will allow for many years without fear of traveling abroad.
• Unvaccinated women who are planning a pregnancy, as during the period of gestation measles is very dangerous for the fetus.
• Persons between 15 and 35 years of age who do not have evidence of vaccination and if they are at risk (teachers, health workers, students).

Where to get vaccinated

When administering a measles vaccine, you should follow certain rules that every healthcare provider must know, as well as how long the measles vaccine is in place.

To children, the preparation in the amount of 0.5 ml is injected into the subscapular region or just below the middle third of the outer surface of the shoulder.

Adult vaccine is injected into the muscle or subcutaneously in the upper third of the shoulder. The drug is not recommended to enter the gluteal region due to an overabundance of subcutaneous fat. It is also not advisable to get intradermally. Introduction to the vein is strictly contraindicated!

Vaccination of both the child and the adult should always be carried out with written consent. If the refusal of the vaccination is followed, it is also made in writing. Annually the refusal needs to be reissued.

How many years does the measles vaccine work

So, for how long after immunization against measles is our immunity strong against this terrible disease? If we talk about adults, the average duration of action lasts 12-13 years. There are times when a period of 10 years is indicated. If you delve into this issue in more depth, it is worth saying that everything is individual. "Post vaccination immunity" (there is such a concept) for each individual may be different, someone will be 10 years old, someone has 13 and even more. There was a case when the patient had antibodies to measles already after 25 years after the vaccination.

It is also important to understand that if you are vaccinated, this will not give a 100% guarantee of protection. As the vaccine developers themselves say, you just have a much better chance of not getting sick than those who are not vaccinated.

How much does the measles vaccine work? This happens as soon as your body forms immunity (antibodies) to the disease. On average this happens after 2-4 weeks after vaccination. Each case is individual.

Contraindications to measles vaccination

How many vaccines against measles are administered in adults, we found out, now we will understand what contraindications to the vaccine exist. The most serious are the following:

• It is not recommended to administer the vaccine to pregnant women. If there is a need, it is necessary to consult with specialists.
• Contraindicated vaccination with AIDS patients, HIV, as well as those who have diseases that affect the bone marrow or lymphatic system.
• Do not get vaccinated if at the moment you have worsened any of your chronic illness.
• With general ailments, illnesses, also postpone vaccination.
• The vaccine is also contraindicated in the event that once it caused complications in you.
• Be sure to consult with the doctor, whether the drugs you are taking with this vaccine are compatible.
• Allergy to egg white.
• Malignant neoplasms.
• Intolerance to antibiotics.

The usual effects of measles vaccination on adults

Adults begin to feel the effects of vaccination on the first day. There may be pain in the place of injection, redness of the skin, some condensation. Similar symptoms are common in other types of vaccination, for example, from hepatitis B.

Further, depending on your immunity, more often on the fifth, and someone on the tenth day, there is lethargy, fatigue, body temperature rises. This is considered normal, because your body begins to produce antibodies to measles. About your condition you need to inform the doctor, he will correctly explain the cause of the ailment and introduce you to the course, how many years the vaccine against measles works. These are the main consequences of the measles vaccination, which all normal, healthy people are experiencing.

Side effects of vaccination

In rare cases, there are adverse reactions to the vaccine, some can be attributed to severe. Here, without the help of doctors can not do. They can be:

• Toxic reaction may occur on the 6-11th day after vaccination. The temperature rises, there is a pain in the throat, intoxication occurs, a rash appears. The period can last five days, but it should be distinguished from any infectious diseases.
• Convulsive or encephalic reaction. High temperature and manifestation of seizures. Most pediatricians do not attribute these symptoms to severe complications.
• Post-vaccinal encephalitis. Symptoms resemble effects of other infections: dizziness, headaches, nausea, confusion, agitation, convulsions, neurologic symptoms.
• Allergic reactions to vaccine components. Swelling of the Quincke. Hives. Pain in the joints.
• Aggravation of allergic diseases. Bronchial asthma.
• Anaphylactic shock.
• Pneumonia.
• Myocarditis.
• Meningitis.

After all of the above, many may have the impression of the dangers of vaccination. But this is not so. Many adverse reactions are formulated purely theoretically. For example, a complication in the form of encephalitis may occur once per million. If there is a measles disease, the risk of complication will increase thousands of times.

How much does the measles vaccine come in? As soon as antibodies form in the body (from 2 to 4 weeks). If during this time you do not feel any side effects in the body, going to the doctor is optional.

Treatment of complications after vaccination

How long does the measles vaccine work? For a long time (10 to 13 years) you will be protected from the disease. It should be borne in mind that the reactions of the body, even if they have occurred, go quickly, after a few days, but the complications after the disease itself can be deplorable, up to a lethal outcome.

• If there are any negative reactions, consult a doctor.
• To cope with the consequences symptomatic preparations will help: antiallergic, antipyretic.
• If the complication is severe, then it is better to treat it in a hospital. The doctor will prescribe you corticosteroid hormones.
• If there are bacterial complications, antibiotics can cope with them.

Types of vaccines

The measles vaccine is made from live, but very weakened measles viruses. In medicine, both monovaccines (from measles) and combined (from measles, epidarotite and rubella) are used. The vaccine virus itself can not cause the disease in the body, it only contributes to the development of anticorrosive specific antibodies. Feature of live vaccine:

• To the drug does not lose its force, it should be stored at a temperature of no higher than +4 degrees.
• Unused vaccine is destroyed by special rules.
• The composition includes egg white and antibiotics. This can provoke allergic reactions in some people.

Russian polyclinics use preparations of domestic production for vaccination - a mumps-measles vaccine and measles monovaccine. Monovaccines have fewer adverse reactions.

We found out through how much the measles vaccine works, what side effects can there be, contraindications. Well, now about how to prepare for vaccination, so that the vaccination was as successful as possible.

How to best transfer the vaccine

• To come on vaccination it is necessary absolutely healthy, without any signs and displays of ARVI.
• Before the vaccination, ideally, there will be a visit to the doctor and the delivery of all general tests.
• After the vaccine is introduced, within three days, refuse to visit crowded places, so as not to pick up any extraneous virus.
• Is it possible to swim? Yes, but do not rub the injection site. It is better to take a shower, not a bath.
• After vaccination, you should not introduce into your diet any new products, dishes, so as not to provoke allergic reactions.

How much does the measles vaccine work? More than ten years in your life you can be calm. A terrible disease is unlikely to affect the body, because you have, thanks to vaccination, developed a strong immunity to measles.