Tdap,chicken pox, and meninngacoccal vaccines?okay, i need help with this one. i asked a question before about the Hpv vaccine and decided not to get it after i read about it. but now on october 22nd i'm going to the doc. for these vaccines:Tdap,Chicken Pox and Mennigacoccal. and i wondered if any 1 had any info bad or good. anything would be very helpfull. i kno that tdap is some form of tetnis and mennogacoccal is some form of menigitis and then chicken pox is chicken pox. but i know that the HPV has Killed Many and I Didn't Know about any of these. Please help. on need info be4 i inject these into myself. :( thanx!!
Answer by Jenny P
So to start off with vaccines are such a good thing to have. What they do is they help you so if you do get sick from any of these diseases your body can fight them off far better and faster than if you didn't have vaccines.
So start out with TDaP is a vaccine for three diseases: Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis. It's a common vaccine given every 10 years or so. Tetanus is from a bacteria that's found in the soil, if you step on a rusty nail or anything else in the dirt and get a deep cut you can get it. Diphtheria mainly affects younger kids, and starts off as a cold with a nasty cough. Pertussis is whooping cough if you've ever heard of it. It's a nasty cough, and a contagious disease. This vaccine will protect you from these bacteria, which is good and practically everyone gets them in this country.
Chicken Pox vaccine protects you from chicken pox. If you've already had chicken pox as a kid then you probably don't need the vaccine. If not then it's good to protect yourself from it.
Meningococcal protects from meningitis. It's a highly contagious disease and can affect the brain.
HPV stands for human papilloma virus. This virus can cause cervical cancer. I actually am going to get my second shot at then end of this month for HPV. I recommend getting this vaccine, because it'll prevent some types of cancer, which is huge, especially because cervical cancer can happen to any women.
Overall vaccines don't hurt, they help. Each vaccine contains a dead virus, so it can't infect you or hurt in any way. What happens is your body fights the dead virus so that way when it recognizes a live one it's able to recognize and fight it better and faster than if it had never fought it at all and your better protected.
Answer by Lisa
Here is the information that is given to doctors about the vaccines.
Tdap http://www.vaccineshoppe.com/image.cfm?image_type=product_pdf&pi=400-10
or http://us.gsk.com/products/assets/us_boostrix.pdf
Meningococcal: http://www.vaccineshoppe.com/image.cfm?pi=589-05&image_type=product_pdf
Chickenpox: http://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/v/varivax/varivax_pi.pdf
Some interesting and important information from the above links: Tdap contains aluminum and formaldehyde--not things you want injected into your body. Meningococcal vaccine also contains formaldehyde. On page 5 of the Adacel info it says it has not been tested to see if it causes cancer or impairs fertility. Actually, I checked all the vaccines I linked to, and they all say that.
Here are some of the possible side effects, from page 9 of the Adacel information:
"General disorders and administration site conditions:
Large injection site reactions (>50 mm), extensive limb swelling from the injection site beyond one or both joints.
Injection site bruising, sterile abscess
Nervous system disorders:
Paraesthesia, hypoesthesia, Guillain-Barré syndrome, facial palsy, convulsion, syncope, myelitis
Immune system disorders:
Anaphylactic reaction, hypersensitivity reaction (angioedema, edema, rash, hypotension)
Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders:
Pruritus, urticaria
Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders:
Myositis, muscle spasm
Cardiac disorders:
Myocarditis"
Google Guillain-Barre. You'll find it is a very serious disorder, and all the vaccines you are thinking of can possibly cause it. It says that in the information I linked to.
I used Adacel, one brand of Tdap, as an example. If you click on the links I included, for all the vaccines you are thinking of, you will find disturbing information for all of the vaccines.
I just wanted to add one thing: the chickenpox vaccine is a live virus vaccine, so it can actually give you chickenpox. You should ask for a blood antibody titer for chickenpox, before even considering the vaccine. You may have already had the disease. My blood test showed I did, even though I don't remember ever getting it.
If you are in the United States, there are exemptions to any requirements your school may have regarding vaccines. http://mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=953402
If you are in Canada, here is the exemption information.
http://www.vran.org/legal/forms.htm
Get the facts on the chickenpox vaccine, treatment, causes (varicella zoster virus, VZV), symptoms and signs (itchy, red rash).
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