118 children under 3 years old in Taoyuan, Taiwan received the wrong vaccine.
According to Taiwanese media reports, the children were originally intended to be vaccinated with children's flu vaccine, but due to the mistake of the Health Bureau, they received the adult quadrivalent flu vaccine produced by a company, and the vaccine has not been tested for children under 3 years old.
What’s even more outrageous is that the Health Bureau did not discover this problem in time, but instead parents only checked it if they found something was wrong. What consequences will it bring to the child after the mistaken seed is made?
In my country's influenza vaccine, the active ingredient of the influenza virus in adult vaccines is twice that of the children's vaccines. For example, influenza vaccine suitable for children aged 6 months to 3 years old, the antigen component hemagglutinin is 7.5 μg, while in adults it is 15 μg.
However, among the influenza vaccines used in the United States in 2019-2020, for children over 6 months of age, there are also cases of influenza vaccination with an adult dose. And there are studies that children with adult doses have no increased adverse reactions.
So, if the child accidentally gets an adult flu vaccine and the child does not respond, then don’t worry too much. Just pay attention to the child’s physical condition. If there is an abnormal reaction, take the child to the hospital immediately. Remember to bring the vaccine book and tell the doctor what vaccine the child has received to facilitate the doctor’s judgment.
In addition to the incorrect vaccination dose, there are also the following situations that parents need to be vigilant during the daily vaccination process!
1. Early vaccination or postponement of vaccination
Generally, each vaccine has its own vaccination procedure. In order to achieve the best preventive effect, parents are advised not to easily postpone vaccination for their children in advance or postponement.
vaccinates children in advance, which may cause the vaccine to fail because the child does not have enough immunity. If the vaccination time is too short, it will also cause the next dose of vaccination to be ineffective. The delay in vaccination of
may increase the risk of infection during this period due to reduced immunity.
However, many times, you will encounter a child who gets sick or has shortage of vaccines, which will lead to the inability to get vaccinated in time. What should you do?
If you just postpone it for a few days, it will be fine. You just need to make up for the corresponding vaccine doses as soon as possible, and it will not affect the prevention effect.
But if the seed is missed and the child is over age, such as BCG, and it cannot be replanted after the age of 4, there is no way. You can only rely on daily protection to prevent the occurrence of this disease.
2. It is difficult to develop, produce and circulation vaccines for inadvertent vaccination or incorrect vaccines. During the production process, if the environment and temperature of biological drugs fermentation are not paid special attention to, it is easy to cause drug failure.
If the child is vaccinated with the failed vaccine, parents do not need to panic too much. They just need to get the qualified vaccine in time within the specified time.
If the vaccination is wrong, then parents need to patiently observe their children's reaction after receiving the vaccine. Generally speaking, if vaccination is wrong, it will not affect the child's health problems, after all, it is mainly to prevent diseases.
Once the baby has symptoms such as fever and vomiting after being vaccinated, he or she should go to the relevant hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
In order to avoid these situations, parents need to ask the doctor in advance when their children are vaccinated to see if it is consistent with the registration on the vaccine notebook. If you have any questions, you must raise them in time to solve them better.
3. Vaccination site error
The route of vaccination is oral and injectable. The vaccines for injection can be divided into subcutaneous injection and intramuscular injection.
The vaccination site errors occur occasionally, for example, there have been news reports that some oral rotaviruses were injected into the body. Therefore, when parents take their children to get vaccinated, remember to ask more questions about the vaccination location to remind medical staff to avoid mistakes.
4. Repeat vaccination
Generally, the baby will have no effect when vaccinating again. Moreover, some vaccines require repeated vaccination to play an effective preventive role. For example, diphtheria, tetanus and disruption vaccines require repeated vaccination to increase the antibody level in the body and thus play an immune role.
Of course, some vaccines with relatively greater side effects, that is, when the vaccine has a strong antigenicity, there is no need to repeat vaccination, such as chickenpox vaccine.
If the vaccine with severe side effects is repeated, it may cause fever, cold and other similar symptoms, so you must be sent to the hospital for treatment in time.
So, how should parents prevent vaccination errors?
- Check the relevant information of the vaccine before vaccination
Before taking the baby to get vaccinated, try to ask the vaccinated doctor to check the type, manufacturer, batch number and validity period of the vaccine for this vaccination with you, and ensure that the information registered on the vaccination certificate is consistent with the relevant information of the actual vaccine.
- After vaccination, the packaging for retaining the vaccine
To ensure the safety of the vaccine, parents try to keep the vaccine packaging box (the vaccine type, manufacturer, batch number, production date and validity period) and instructions.
can use Alipay to scan the 20-digit barcode on the packaging box to verify the authenticity of the vaccine and key information.
If this information is inconsistent with the vaccination record on the vaccination certificate, the vaccination doctor needs to modify the vaccination record on the vaccination certificate in a timely manner, and also modify it on the computer simultaneously.
- shooting related information queries afterwards
If the vaccine's packaging box and instructions cannot be taken away, you should also try to require the shooting of the key information on the packaging box to ensure subsequent queries.
- Observe the baby's reaction after vaccination
Generally, after vaccination, the baby may have some adverse reactions. For example, fever symptoms, local redness and swelling, crying, drowsiness, etc. If the above situations cannot be alleviated after receiving normal care, they must be sent to the hospital for examination in time.
