Today, the only effective way to deal with it, scientists believe vaccinations. However, while in the Russian national immunization calendar vaccination against the most common form of meningitis is not.
Until now, meningitis is considered one of the most dangerous infectious diseases - it is progressing very quickly and can lead to death within 1-2 days, or make a person disabled for life. One in five patients who had bacterial meningitis can get brain damage, hearing loss or learning difficulties. Pediatricians emphasize that today the only way to effectively combat meningitis - vaccination.
Most often purulent meningitis caused by pneumococcus, meningococcus, and Haemophilus influenzae type b. The most severe of the course and outcome are considered to pneumococcal meningitis resulting in death or disability in the world in 40-75% of cases. WHO estimates that pneumococcal meningitis every year is the cause of 125,000 deaths worldwide. In Russia, the end of every three deaths of pneumococcal meningitis.
- Pneumococcal meningitis are the most dangerous for children during the first years of life because of the possible lack of specific clinical manifestations, as well as the rapid development of complications such as cerebral edema, convulsions, coma syndrome. At the same time, the immaturity of the immune system in early childhood results in an extremely difficult and protracted course of meningitis, which leads to the defeat of the brain and, consequently, in a delay physical and mental development, says Head of Department of the Research Institute of Children's Infections neuroinfections Marina Ivanova.
The most characteristic symptoms of meningitis include fever, headache, vomiting, sensitivity to light, confusion. Alas - even timely treatment is not always effective due to increasing resistance of pneumococci to antibiotics used in the treatment of meningitis. At the age of two children are most vulnerable to pneumococcal: own immune system is not yet fully formed, and the action of antibodies derived from the mother, weakened in the first 2-3 months of life. Therefore, contact with pneumococcal infection often ends tragically for kids. Diseases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae - pneumonia, meningitis, blood infections, otitis media - a dangerous part of death and complications: pulmonary edema, developmental delay, epilepsy, hydrocephalus, hearing impairment, and others.
- Vaccination against pneumococcal disease and Haemophilus influenzae type b in a constantly growing resistance of bacteria - only for today effective way to protect children against bacterial meningitis. These infections are included in the national immunization schedule in many countries. We know that immunization against pneumococcal infections of children of the first years of life provides high levels of protection against serotypes causing the most severe forms of meningitis. Vaccination is well tolerated and has a high level of security, - said Head of the Laboratory of vaccinal and immunotherapy of allergic diseases Research Institute of Vaccines and Sera. II Mechnikov, an expert of the "Stop, Pneumococcus! "Mikhail Kostin.
In France, a few years after the introduction of mass immunization against pneumococcal infection the number of pneumococcal meningitis among the highest risk groups (children under 1 year) decreased by 36, 5%. 3 years after the introduction of mass vaccination against pneumococcal disease in the United States the incidence of all types of pneumococcal disease in children younger than 1 year fell by 84, 1%.
Leading Russian pediatricians have long been talking about the need to include pneumococcal vaccination in the Russian national immunization schedule. This simple measure will help reduce the incidence of our children so dangerous infection and save thousands of children's lives.
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