bcg vaccination

 

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 BCG vaccine so first up why is bCG vaccine given its given to prevent the serious complications of TB like TB meningitis and guess what even leprosy but remember it does not prevent pulmonary TB next how long does the BCG vaccine work the answer is 20 years that is once given the BCG vaccine protects the recipient for 20 years you must be wondering what does VCR stand for well it stands for basilar gamut wearing confused right then let me tell you that basilica meat grilling is an arrival and strain of that was produced from 239 subcultures after 30 long years of research just imagine 30 nerves of research next what type of vaccine is BC it is a live attenuated freeze right philosophized vaccine like this in case you are wondering what the heck does live attenuated mean it means vaccine which has been prepared from life but weak organisms that have lost their capacity to induce full-blown disease but retain their carcinogenicity and freeze-dried philosophize means vaccine is sold in a dry frozen form so that it is more stable than their liquid counterparts next from which organism is the Cod rived it is derived from macro bacterium boys now bovines has hundreds of strings but the string which is approved by who-oh is the Danish 1331 string next the strength of the vaccine it is 0.1 milligram in 0.1 ml now remember BCG was a freeze-dried vaccines it's actually in powder form and needs to be diluted with buffered normal saline but remember once diluted the vaccine should be used up within three hours because after that indigenous next what is the dose it is 0.1 ml for children above one-month age and 0.05 malformed children below one month age what is the site of vaccination that is when the initial supposed to be given it is given in the skin over the left Deltona muscle intermediately like this and the syringe that is used is called Omega micro stat 26 god syringe also remember never clean the site of vaccination with antiseptic solution it might kill the live bacteria in the vaccine and make the vaccine useless always scream the vaccine area with normal saline also in case you’re wondering why so much fuss or the left Deltona well it's just given there to maintain uniformity next what happens after vaccination is over the site vaccination goes through stages of Bayou Elsa and scar pa pule occurs after two weeks alpha occurs after four weeks and ska occurs after six weeks this is a typical BCG scar I am sure you have seen it before this one man to test becomes positive after 8 to 14 weeks finally what are the complications fobs vaccination number one is prolonged severe ulceration like this number two is separative lymphatics and number three is poliomyelitis thank you for