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Vaccination against mumps.
Usually against mumps used vaccines:
- combined MMR vaccine (against mumps, measles and rubella), which includes live attenuated strains,
- live attenuated mumps vaccine (Leningrad-3, Leningrad-Zagreb, Rubini),
- foreign live vaccines (Jeryl-Lynn vaccine, Urabe Am9 vaccine).
Vaccination against mumps is carried out as planned according to the scheme, and urgently for the prevention of mumps in adults and children who have not been vaccinated before, upon contact with the patient. Emergency vaccination is carried out no later than 3 days after contact with an infected person.
Vaccination schedule:
- Children a year and six years old,
- Adults - from 22 years old every ten years.
Post-vaccination symptoms appear after 5 days - two weeks (for most, the process is asymptomatic):
- Increased body temperature,
- Enlargement of the submandibular and / or cervical lymph nodes,
- Possible skin rash,
- Swelling of the mucous membrane of the throat, nasopharynx (cough, runny nose),
- Myalgia,
- Febrile seizures.
Possible complications after vaccination are the risk of developing aseptic serous meningitis (frequency: one case per million people), reactive arthritis (in the adult population with a predisposition - 25%), encephalitis (frequency: one case per million people), rarely allergic reactions.
Contraindications - severe allergic reactions (including aminoglycosides, chicken protein, gelatin), immunodeficiency states, pregnancy, acute period of any disease or chronic diseases at the stage of flare-up, general malaise.
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