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More Benefits of the Pneumococcal Vaccine
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A couple months back I alluded to the benefits of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevnar) as following its introduction, a corresponding reduction of childhood pneumonias has been noted. Now I'd like to highlight some recent research published in Pediatrics (April 2007: Volume 119, Number 4), which demonstrated children have been less likely to develop frequent ear infections or require pessure-equalizing (PE) tube insertions since the introduction of this vaccine.
As a reminder, the prevnar vaccine is recommended at age 2,4,6 months and shortly after 1 year of age. Dr. J Posted on 06/30/07, 12:06 pm |
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Breastfeeding also reduces the incidence of ear infections. Good handwashing and breastfeeding work! 
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While Prevnar may have dramatically reduced the amount of ear infections and illness related to the covered serotypes, there has been an increase in ear infections since introduction of the vaccination. Prevnar has caused a serotype replacement as well as increased antibiotic resistance.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/...(04)16357-5/fulltext "A trial with a 7-valent pneumococcal-conjugate vaccine in children with recurrent acute otitis media showed a shift in pneumococcal colonisation towards non-vaccine serotypes and an increase in Staphylococcus aureus-related acute otitis media after vaccination. We investigated prevalence and determinants of nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae and S aureus in 3198 healthy children aged 1—19 years. Nasopharyngeal carriage of S pneumoniae was detected in 598 (19%) children, and was affected by age (peak incidence at 3 years) and day-care attendance (odds ratio [OR] 2·14, 95% CI 1·44—3·18). S aureus carriage was affected by age (peak incidence at 10 years) and male sex (OR 1·46, 1·25—1·70). Serotyping showed 42% vaccine type pneumococci. We noted a negative correlation for co-colonisation of S aureus and vaccine-type pneumococci (OR 0·68, 0·48—0·94), but not for S aureus and non-vaccine serotypes. These findings suggest a natural competition between colonisation with vaccine-type pneumococci and S aureus, which might explain the increase in S aureus-related otitis media after vaccination."
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My son passed away from interstitial pneumonitis at 9 weeks old. Not related to the vaccination, however it was three days after his vaccinations, and I was informed the shot could have caused some small focal areas of inflammation. I had a medical expert tell me he would not testify in my case against the hospital who we are taking to court because he could not say for sure it was not related to the vaccinations. The hospital never diagnosed, or treated him. Kept sending me home. Anyways, that goes to show me sometimes they do more harm than good. And I would rather breastfeed, take good sanitary precautions, and keep my son home while he's small than vacinate him at such a young age, if I do at all.
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