Babies receive their first vaccinations at two months of age. That day, according to the calendar of each community, they can receive up to 9 blow immunizations, if we count the 6 of the hexavalent vaccine (tetanus, diphtheria, polio, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenza B and pertussis), that of meningitis C, the pneumococcus and the rotavirus.
Having said that, it's scary, and maybe that's why there are people (few, but there are) who decide to delay the first vaccinations for babies. However, not only is it not negative for babies but it seems that there is an added benefit that many did not know: vaccinating babies may help decrease the risk of sudden infant death.
Why are babies vaccinated at 2 months?
Many people ask me when, at the month of life, I explain that a month later they will receive the first vaccines: why so many and so soon? Can't you put on later? Are not many blow shots? Are not many viruses in their little bodies?
Well, they are not really viruses, they are vaccines, created to make the body react as if the virus entered, creating defenses, but without the symptoms of the virus. That is, we are not really infecting the baby, but exposing it to controlled doses of substances that create immunity. If we compare those 9 vaccines with the thousands and thousands of microorganisms with which it comes into contact from the moment the thing is born is actually quite ridiculous. Moreover, if we compare it with the amount of microorganisms that we pass to the baby when we kiss him or when he puts his hand in his mouth, the number 9 is tiny.
AdvertisingWhat does not affect the same way because vaccines often give fever? It is true, it is not the same to be in contact with thousands of various microorganisms than to receive an injection that causes the stimulation of your immune system to the point of causing fever many times, but the reason is worth it: prevent you from catching all those viruses and bacteria.
On whether they are many at once, yes, they are, but it must be so. The sooner a baby is vaccinated the sooner you protect it and the lower the risk of getting pathogens that could be very dangerous, so it is worth doing at 2 months and not later. In fact, it is done at that age and not before because the effect of the vaccine in children under 2 months is more limited and it is considered that it is not worth advancing the date. If they were effective, if they worked the same way, vaccines would be given the first day they were born.
They get after two months and decrease the SMSL
So, as I say, after a few months a few vaccines are given to all babies in order to protect them from the viruses and bacteria for which they are vaccinated but with an added benefit, as it seems that they reduce the risk of sudden death of Lactating, a problem that scares all parents a lot.
This is hopeful because one of the biggest doubts regarding sudden death was whether vaccines actually increased the risk. It was thought because many babies were found dead days or weeks after receiving the vaccines and in such a situation it is easy to think that there could be a relationship. However, it has not only been seen that there is no such relationship, but that it seems that vaccines could have a protective effect.
This is, at least, what a study says that assesses the relationship between tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis vaccines (given at two months) and the SIDS.
To make the study, the researchers analyzed the number of cases of sudden infant death and contrasted them with vaccination records. With data from the US, they saw that mortality from SIDS increased significantly between 1968 and 1971 (more than 27% of cases each year), which from 1971 to 1974 increased by 47%, which between 1974 and 1979 increased by 3 %, that between 1979 and 1991 decreased by 1% and that between 1991 until 2001, more or less when it began to advise that the babies sleep in supine position and the head turned to the side, decreased 8%. Since 2001 the figures have remained constant.
In reference to vaccination coverage, it seems that at higher coverage lower mortality rates, because every 10% increase in coverage means a reduction in the risk of SIDS of 0.92 (if the risk were 1, we would say that the vaccine does nothing with respect to sudden death, and if it is greater than 1 the study would say that the vaccine increases the risk of sudden death). To obtain these data, the researchers adjusted the sleeping position as a confounding factor, as it is something very decisive that could alter the result. That is, even when the babies slept in the right position, the incidence of sudden death was lower when there were more vaccinated children.
So yes, vaccines are important and yes, should be administered when indicated in the vaccine schedule, being the first by rule, at two months of age.
