Protect your baby from IPD

There are so many strains of bacteria in this world, some are good but some are hazardous to human, especially to those little children, which may have capacity to kill little child within 24-48 hours after infection. One of them is “hazardous strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae” that usually causes Otitis, Pneumonia and Sinusitis. More than that, it is an important cause of Meningitis in children and immune deficiency elders.

This bacteria transmissions through respiratory system and destroy epithelium tissue within respiratory tract. Then it goes into blood circulation brought to Sepsis, Meningitis, Pneumonia, Middle ear inflammation and Sinusitis. These make this strain of bacteria be the first cause of mortality in children due to Meningitis because of its drug resistant property.

As the time goes by, this strain has developed until being much more resistant results more died children from Meningitis, although the children receives medication at early stage of disease. So, it’s important to produce vaccine protecting children aged less than 2 years from this strain of bacteria called “Pneumoccccal Conjugated Vaccine (PCV)”.

This vaccine has capacity to inhibit all of 7 hazardous strains from total 90 strains, both hazardous and non-hazardous, of S. pneumoniae as high as 70-90%.

And who will be qualified to get this vaccine? Well, to answer this question depends on economic status of each country because this vaccine is quite expensive consequences some underdeveloped and developing countries couldn’t effort that much expense. While developed country like United States of America and Japan have capacity to give this vaccine to every babies aged more than 2 months.

With these data, the conclusion answering this question is… the most qualified population is every children aged lower than 5 years, usually have respiration tract infection, live in the orphanage including immune deficiency children. These children are in the high risk group population which could be infected by these bacteria easily. Due to high cost of this vaccine, the side effects after injection is in the lower level of severity like redness and swelling around injection area, fever and bored with food.

In United States of America, they started giving PCV to children aged lower than 5 years since year 2000. And they found out that death rate from IPD was decreased up to 50% after given vaccine for 1 year. Furthermore, rate of severely diseases; for example meningitis, pneumonia and acute respiratory tract infectious disease caused by these bacteria including other strains involved: occurred have decreased also.