That is, the need for vaccination does not end with childhood! Each year, thousands of adults in America suffer serious health problems, are hospitalized or die from diseases that can be prevented with vaccines such as influenza (flu), pertussis, certain bacterial infections, hepatitis A and B , shingles (herpes zoster) and some cancers, including cervical and liver. Talk to your doctor today to find out what vaccines are recomnedables for you.
Most people do not know that adults need vaccines. Although many know it recommended to get a flu vaccine every year, few people are aware of the need for other vaccines to help protect your health.
The protection provided by some childhood vaccine fades over time, leaving adults vulnerable to disease. For example, cases of pertussis have increased in recent years and more than 41,000 reported in 2012 have learned that the protection granted by the DTaP vaccine against whooping cough, which are given to children, not hard to adulthood so now they are recommended for all adults who receive one dose of Tdap vaccine against the disease.
The adults are also other vaccines may be recommended depending on your age, job, hobbies, travel and health. In addition, they can recommend others if they did not receive certain vaccines as children or adolescents. Check your vaccination records to make sure they have been vaccinated against HPV (HPV for short) and the triple vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR, for its acronym in English). You may also need the varicella vaccine, if you did not get the job or have not had the disease.
Some adults, including the elderly and those with chronic conditions may be at higher risk for serious complications if they get some vaccine-preventable diseases. For example, because in old age increases the chances of developing shingles, the CDC recommends that adults get the shot against the disease at age 60. People with diabetes, heart disease and COPD or asthma, if well controlled, even more likely to have complications from influenza than those who do not have those conditions. To prevent complications, such as pneumonia, people with these chronic conditions should also receive pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.
But those are not the only reasons to keep up with vaccines.
Vaccination of adults is needed because not only protects the person receiving the vaccine, but can also help prevent the transmission of certain diseases to their loved ones and those in the community who are most vulnerable (such as those with weakened immune systems and babies). They do not have a choice, but you will.
Vaccinations are available at doctors' offices and other accessible places like pharmacies, workplaces, community clinics and health departments.
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