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Q & A: Flu shots helpful for infants and their caregivers

31.07.10

Although most children repossess from influenza without facer, there is a hazard of hospitalization or undoing that can be reduced by vaccination. Influenza vaccine can be accepted only after 6 months of age, which is why seasonal influenza and 2009 H1N1 vaccine is recommended for parents and other household members and caregivers of infants under 6 months of age.

The vaccines are a okay and effectual way to bring down the danger from influenza. Children should also get practice pneumococcal vaccine, to mind them from a bacteria that can effect meningitis or sepsis (blood glide infection). Many of the children who died after becoming infected with influenza in truth died from unimportant pneumococcal, or other bacterial, infections.

Q: How paraphernalia are lightweight air purifiers in classrooms for dealing with H1N1?

A: They are quite not very real, since the influenza virus is transmitted ab initio by good respiratory droplets from coughing and sneezing that travel about 3 to 6 feet, rather than staying suspended in the air (like measles and tuberculosis).

Influenza viruses also may be transmitted on surfaces that people touch, then infect themselves by stirring their noses, mouths or eyes before washing their hands. Covering coughs, washing hands and sanitizing surfaces are prevalent to slow more influenza than HEPA filters (which I counterfeit you were referring to in asking about air purifiers).

Source: Bellingham Herald