Medical Definition Of Immunization .....
Immunization is a process of imitating nature. Instead of undergoing natural infection, the patient has injected into him either a vaccine to stimulate the production of antibody, or ready-made antibody as described .The first form is called active immunization, because the body has to actively produce antibody; the second form is called passive immunization, because the body passively receives antibody manufactured in some other body. We must now consider the forms of immunization available for various diseases.
Diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus These three diseases are taken together because the vaccines against them are usually mixed together and given as one injection, usually called triple vaccine. This contains diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid and dead whooping cough bacilli. The first dose is given to infants at 6 months old, the second 4 to 6 weeks later and the third after 6 months.
A booster dose of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids should be given when the child goes to school, but whooping cough vaccine is not given because by then the most dangerous age for that disease has passed. Another dose of tetanus toxoid should be given when the pupil leaves school at 15 years old or later.
These are the recommendations the Department of Health and Social Security (old Ministry of Health) made in 1972. They can be altered to
suit conditions in other countries, and immunization can, of course, carried out against any of the three diseases separately.
Immunization is a process of imitating nature. Instead of undergoing natural infection, the patient has injected into him either a vaccine to stimulate the production of antibody, or ready-made antibody as described .The first form is called active immunization, because the body has to actively produce antibody; the second form is called passive immunization, because the body passively receives antibody manufactured in some other body. We must now consider the forms of immunization available for various diseases.
Diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus These three diseases are taken together because the vaccines against them are usually mixed together and given as one injection, usually called triple vaccine. This contains diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid and dead whooping cough bacilli. The first dose is given to infants at 6 months old, the second 4 to 6 weeks later and the third after 6 months.
A booster dose of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids should be given when the child goes to school, but whooping cough vaccine is not given because by then the most dangerous age for that disease has passed. Another dose of tetanus toxoid should be given when the pupil leaves school at 15 years old or later.
These are the recommendations the Department of Health and Social Security (old Ministry of Health) made in 1972. They can be altered to
suit conditions in other countries, and immunization can, of course, carried out against any of the three diseases separately.
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