Harmful misunderstandings about vaccines

No need for vaccination, just good personal hygiene will not get sick, is the most common misconception.

According to Health Sina, there are 8 misconceptions about popular vaccines such as:

Vaccination is not necessary, good personal hygiene and antiseptic will not get sick

This interpretation is completely wrong. The truth is good hygiene, using hand soap and clean water helps protect people from infectious diseases. However, in fact, people are still at risk of many infectious diseases regardless of how clean they are. Many studies show that people are at risk of getting vaccinated diseases such as polio and measles if they stop the recommended route of vaccination.

Vaccines are often harmful to health and long-term side effects, even death

This concept is wrong. Actual vaccines are safe and meet very strict testing standards of the World Health Organization (WHO) and health agencies of each country. Most side effects of vaccines are mild and temporary, such as pain or mild fever, and severe cases are extremely rare and carefully monitored. If not vaccinated, your health is at risk of being threatened by the serious side effects of a preventable disease such as paralysis, measles and encephalitis, blindness and even lead. to death.

Vaccines combining multiple preventive antigens will cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Vaccination is the most effective preventive measure.(Photo: baodansinh).

Many people believe that the vaccine has many uses in an injection that is resistant to diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and polio but increases the risk of sudden death in newborns. This is a misunderstanding. In fact, there is no causal link between the vaccine and sudden death in newborns. It is possible that the vaccine is given to babies with SIDS syndrome, which can lead to death.

It is important for parents to remember that diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, and polio are a serious threat to life or serious disability in children who have not been vaccinated. The fact that after each stage people turn away from vaccines, the disease outbreaks again.

Inject many different vaccines at the same time, increasing the risk of side effects and overloading the body's immune system.

Scientific evidence shows that injecting multiple vaccines at the same time does not have any adverse effects on the child's immune system. The important advantage of injecting multiple vaccines at the same time is fewer visits, saving time and money, and children are more likely to complete the recommended immunization schedule.

Flu is just a common nuisance and vaccines are not really effective

In fact, flu is a serious disease that kills 300,000 to 500,000 people worldwide each year. Pregnant women, young children, elderly people with poor health and anyone with chronic conditions, asthma or heart disease are at high risk of infection and death. Vaccination is the best way to reduce the risk of getting severe flu and spreading it to others. There is currently no vaccine for babies under 6 months of age, so vaccinating pregnant women is the best way to protect babies.

Create immunity through natural diseases better than vaccines

The fact that vaccines interact with the immune system causes an immune response similar to that produced by natural infection, but does not cause illness or complications. On the contrary, the price to pay for natural immunity due to a mental retardation can result from development of Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) infection, congenital malformations caused by rubella, liver cancer due to Hepatitis B virus or death from measles.

Vaccines containing mercury are dangerous to health

Fact: Thiomersal is an organic substance (mercury is added to some vaccines as preservatives). There is no evidence that thiomersal used in vaccines is dangerous to human health.

Vaccines cause autism

Studies in 1998 raised concerns about the link between measles and mumps (MMR) vaccine and autism. Articles in a number of journals that led to this study were removed because of serious errors. However, the implications of the article have caused panic, leading to a reduction in vaccination rates in the community. Now scientists all claim there is no evidence of a link between MMR vaccine and autism or autism disorders.