NURS 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Zoster Vaccine, Shingles, Diphtheria
26 Mar 2016
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Many adults don"t know they need to get vaccines. Vaccines protect your health and prevent spreading diseases to your family, friends and co-workers. But i had my immunizations as a child. Sometimes the vaccines you had as a child do not provide lifelong protection, and booster doses are needed (for example, you need a tetanus/diphtheria booster every 10 years). Sometimes the viruses or bacteria that cause disease can change over time (for example, influenza viruses may change yearly, so you need an influenza vaccine every year). As you age, you become more at risk for disease (for example, shingles can occur many years after having chickenpox, and a zoster vaccine will provide protection to prevent this) No parts of a vaccine will harm you or give you the disease. An allergic reaction after getting immunized is rare. The weakened viruses or bacteria in vaccines give you protection from disease without giving you the disease.
