The president of the Paraguayan Society of Pediatrics, Ernesto Weber, announced the advantages of applying the hexavalent vaccine in children. This immune system is available at all Public Health posts.
July 09, 2023 – 12:18 PM
Since last June 19, the hexavalent vaccine has been applied to newborn children. There are four doses that are injected at two, four, six and eighteen months of age.
This immune system was recently added to the vademecum of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (MSPBS), as part of the regular vaccination campaign for children.
The president of the Paraguayan Society of Pediatrics, Ernesto Weber, announced the advantages of applying the hexavalent vaccine in children.
The main advantage is that it protects the child from six diseases: diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, Haemophilus influenzae, hepatitis B and poliomyelitis.
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Advantages of the hexavalent vaccine
However, it also has other advantages, such as -for example- reducing the pain that the child perceives with the previous scheme, in which he received the pentavalent, which has a component that generates “reactogenicity of pain” in the boy who receives it. . “At this time, with the hexavalent, this becomes a single injection, with much fewer adverse effects attributable to the vaccine,” said the doctor.
The hexavalent one also replaces two vaccines – pentavalent and IPB – that children received. “The issue of discomfort, that we know that the child receives the vaccine but the whole family in synthesis has a bad time, because he sleeps badly at night, cries, does not want to eat, he is lying there. So this is a very important component. Apart from the fact that, since there are not two vaccines, the issue of controlling the risk of there being a mistake is much less, ”she said.
Read more: Hexavalent vaccine: dose that prevents six diseases will be available from June 19
Hexavalent is available at all Public Health posts nationwide. There is availability for all the boys who must be immunized, since this was foreseen by the health portfolio, as revealed by Weber.
Paraguay and Chile are the only countries in the region that have already included this vaccine in their regular vaccination schedule.
2023-07-09 16:18:00
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