Patient's question:
Detailed medical condition and consultation purpose: My child has taken the polio vaccine (oral polio drops) three times. This year, Guangdong Province announced that on December 5th, an additional booster dose of the polio vaccine is required. However, my child is currently residing in Xinjiang. I would like to know if Xinjiang also offers this service on December 5th this year.First follow-up question: Can you please answer quickly?
Second follow-up question: We have asked many people, such as those at community health clinics, children's hospitals, disease control centers, epidemic prevention stations, and women and children's health care hospitals, but none of them could give us an accurate answer!!! Some said yes, some said no, and even people within the same organization had conflicting opinions.
Doctor's answer:
Sweet as sugar beans, the "poliomyelitis" vaccine is a sugar live vaccine made by treating poliovirus with attenuation and mixing it with sugar, cream, and other ingredients, which is commonly known as the children's paralysis sugar. Children can prevent the serious health threat of poliomyelitis by taking just a few pills. When taking it, please pay attention to the following points. (1) Infants should start taking one dose of the trivalent mixed vaccine orally after 2 months of age, followed by another dose at 3 months and another at 4 months, which is called primary immunization. By the time they are 4 years old, taking one more dose can basically prevent the occurrence of poliomyelitis. (2) The children's paralysis sugar live vaccine is a live virus that has been attenuated. This virus is very sensitive to heat and will die quickly at 50 degrees Celsius. Therefore, it is absolutely not allowed to dissolve the sugar in hot water and then take it, or to take it with hot water, to avoid the live virus in the sugar dying and losing its vaccine effect. To ensure effectiveness, it is also not advisable to eat hot food within 2 to 3 hours after taking the oral vaccine. (3) If a child has diarrhea more than 4 times a day, treatment should be administered until the condition is cured before taking the vaccine. Children with high fever, severe rickets, active tuberculosis, or other chronic serious illnesses should also temporarily avoid taking the children's paralysis sugar live vaccine.