How to prevent whooping cough?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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To create active immunity, vaccination against pertussis is carried out , whole-cell and acellular vaccines are used. In our country, a whole-cell vaccine is used as part of DTP and pertussis monovalentine. Acellular (acellular) vaccines include pertussis anatoxin, filamentous hemagglutinin and pertactin. The pertussis component of the domestic DTP vaccine consists of killed pertussis pathogens.
The primary vaccination with DTP vaccine is given to children aged 3 months three times by 0.5 ml at intervals of 30-40 days, revaccination after 1.5-2 years. The vaccine is injected subcutaneously into the scapula area. Pertussis monovaccine is used in a dose of 0.1 ml subcutaneously to children previously immunized against diphtheria and tetanus.
A patient who has pertussis should be separated with peers for 25-30 days from the time of the disease. For children under the age of 7 who were in contact with patients who had not previously had pertussis who had not been vaccinated (if they do not have a cough), quarantine is established for a period of 14 days from the moment of the last contact with the patient.
If a patient with pertussis is treated at home, children who have been in contact with him before the age of 7, who are not sick with whooping cough, are subject to dissociation, which is terminated after 25 days from the onset of coughing in the first ill child. Children with pertussis and children older than 7 years, as well as adults serving children's institutions, are under medical supervision for 25 days from the onset of coughing in the ill. Final disinfection is not carried out.
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