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Post-vaccination encephalitis - degree of danger?
Post-vaccination complications are factors that often serve as a reason for refusal of vaccination in principle. The most severe and difficult in subsequent treatment is post-vaccination encephalitis - a disease that develops after the introduction of vaccines such as measles vaccine, rabies vaccination, ADS, DTP vaccine.
Signs of post-vaccination encephalitis:
- the disease begins to develop one to two weeks after the introduction of the vaccine;
- starts with an increase in temperature up to 40 degrees;
- there is a severe headache,
- vomit,
- central paralysis,
- convulsive syndrome,
- sometimes loss of consciousness may occur,
- sometimes peripheral paralysis,
- meningeal syndromes may develop.
Statistics indicate that most often post-vaccination encephalitis develops as a complication of primary vaccination of children (for example, carried out with a delay), less often in connection with revaccination.
Treatment for post-vaccination encephalitis has a chance of success. Antiviral drugs (immunostimulants) and symptomatic drugs (anticonvulsants, vascular drugs, neurometabolites - piracetam, gamma-aminobutyric acid, pyridoxine, thiamine; dehydrating agents - diuretics) are used in the treatment. In severe cases, glucocorticosteroids are used.
In some patients, after a previous illness, residual effects such as paresis, epilepsy, hyperkinesis, and increased intracranial pressure may persist.
The prognosis for the treatment of post-vaccination encephalitis is positive. In recent years, with the invention of new types of vaccines, the likelihood of such a complication as post-vaccination encephalitis has significantly decreased.
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