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As a parent, you really need to know exactly what your child is being fed. Including the benefits of two types of vaccines in polio immunization in infants.
Quoting the Indonesian Pediatrician Association (IDAI) official website with the following statement:
Polio vaccine administered orally it is a live but attenuated vaccine. This condition allows the virus to multiply in the intestines and can stimulate the intestines and blood to form immune substances (antibodies) against the wild polio virus.
This means that if wild poliovirus enters the child’s intestines, the wild poliovirus will be bound and killed by this immune substance that forms in the intestines and blood. As a result, the virus cannot reproduce and does not harm the child and cannot spread to surrounding children.
Injectable polio vaccine: Contains dead poliovirus that is injected into an arm or thigh muscle. So it can’t reproduce in the gut and it doesn’t cause immunity in the gut, but it can cause immunity in the blood. Therefore, if wild poliovirus enters the intestines of infants/children who are injected with the polio vaccine, then the wild poliovirus can still reproduce in their intestines (because there is no immunity in their intestines) but they are not sick, because c ‘is immunity in them in his blood.
Again quoting the IDAI page, because the wild polio virus can still multiply in his gut, can spread through feces to other children, and can cause paralysis in the children around him. Therefore, in countries or regions where wild polio transmission still exists, all infants and children under five should be given the polio virus that is placed in their mouths so that their intestines are able to kill the wild polio virus, thereby halting the spread process.
If no wild poliovirus is found for 5 years or more, gradually injectable poliovirus can be used.
Injectable polio virus can be given to patients who have low immunity, such as receiving cancer drugs, HIV AIDS, or have these patients in their homes.
