One of the most complex situations for those who have children is when they get sick, and more so when the disease is relatively serious and the baby is very small, because the scare that you are carrying is of an order, and those that are not easily forgotten.
A scare similar to the one a couple got when they discovered that their 7-week-old daughter was sick, and that she had an infection due to Haemophilus influenzae type B, a bacterium that has had a vaccine for many years, and that could have caused a serious condition. As we read in CafeMom, her aunt, seeing her in the hospital with a path in her head, did not hesitate to share an image of you to raise awareness of the importance of vaccinating babies and children.
What is Haemophilus influenzae type b
It is a bacterium that produces potentially serious infections, especially if the infection occurs in children under 5 years. As serious as it can affect the lung, the ear, the larynx and, worst of all, the meninges, and can cause meningitis (infection at the brain level).
He Haemophilus influenzae Type b (Hib) is a bacterium that is spread from person to person, which can be in the throat and / or nose, without causing disease, being the carrier. If there is contagion, it can also end up penetrating the body, eventually causing a serious infection.
Have you never heard of her?
The doctors who treated the girl had heard of her existence, but they had never treated any children for such an infection. And it is that thanks to mass vaccination for many years, the frequency of infections and the number of carriers has been reduced in large numbers. So much so that the disease is considered to be controlled in most developed countries.
How could he end up getting infected?
As her aunt tells on Facebook, the little girl had 7 weeks old When he got the disease. That means that it was not yet vaccinated (the first dose is given at two months of life). Luckily, the antibiotic treatment was started on time, and the lumbar puncture to which they underwent breeding, to see if there was involvement at the brain level, was negative.
The intention of sharing it was for people to know the bacteria, to know that it still exists, that it can still happen, how serious it can be, and that in this case happened to a girl who simply was not protected yet because she had not reached the age of vaccination.
And it is that vaccines are not administered only to protect those who are vaccinated (taking into account that no vaccine manages to protect 100%), but also to protect the rest of vaccinated and unvaccinated, among them those babies who are still small to be vaccinated, and those children who have any disease or allergy to any component, and cannot get vaccinated.
Now the girl has already been dischargedLuckily, without further repercussions, and their relatives will also have to be treated to prevent them from becoming carriers of the bacteria.
And what does it carry on your head?
One way. A vein channeled in the head to be able to administer medications. It is very spectacular, but it is just that. The important thing, more than the image, is the story: a bacterium that can cause potentially serious conditions, which can be avoided through systematic vaccination with the hexavalent vaccine; that what It is given at two months of age, if the parents agree with it.
