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immune system
vaccination sequelae
diagnoses
definition and etiology
definition: clinical or subclinical illness following vaccination
etiology:
Conventional medicine proposes that immunity can be acquired in four ways:
Artificially using an antiserum or vaccine.
Naturally where the antibodies or an antigen is transmitted through day to day contacts.
Active (natural or artificial) where the immune system produces antibodies.
Passive (natural or artificial) where antibodies are injected in the form of antiserum or immune globulins that were obtained from animals or other humans (artificially acquired passive immunity). The antibodies may have been acquired naturally, like passage through the placenta or via colostrum. Passive immunity is relatively short-lived. The proteins are foreign and the body reacts to them as to foreign proteins.
Conventional medicine further considers routine vaccinations to include: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, and rubella.
A long-standing debate continues over the relative benefits and risks of immunization. Greatest concern surrounds accidental induction of full-blown illness when administering a vaccine. A subtler, more important consideration is whether vaccines cause long-term impairment of the immune system, or other subclinical syndromes. Many observant physicians have encountered pediatric patients whose general condition or temperament or apparent general susceptibility has permanently changed after vaccination.
signs and symptoms
mild fever in pertussis and diphtheria vaccine
arthralgia and body aches with rubella vaccine
depressed immune system response may be a long-term sequela
"never the same since vaccination"
course and prognosis
Within conventional medicine, immediate vaccination sequelae are usually considered self-limiting but uncomfortable. The patient should be observed for severe reaction and treated symptomatically for discomfort.
Longer-term "vaccinosis" is harder to diagnose, but can be strongly suggested by history. Appropriate treatment may then help ameliorate the condition.
differential diagnosis
incidental viral or infectious illness
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