Episode-32-Disease that Childhood Immunization Prevents

In this podcast, Dr. Anyoha discusses some of the diseases that childhood vaccines prevent. This information is crucial for parents in my private practice, empowering them with the knowledge they need before they consent to childhood vaccines.

 

Though we do not see these diseases in developed countries as frequently as in the past years, they still have severe effects on children and young adults, especially children living in many of the so called poor and resource poor countries. It's crucial to understand the urgency of childhood immunization.

 

This is an opportunity for parents to learn about some common signs and symptoms of diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus, as well as symptoms of measles, mumps, and rubella.

 

I also talked about how children present when they suffer from meningitis—an infection around the brain and spinal cord, diarrhea disease caused by rotavirus infection, and cancer of the uterine cervix and head and neck areas, caused by Human papillomavirus.  

 

Other topics in this podcast include signs and symptoms of hepatitis infection in children and how giving hepatitis A and B vaccines might prevent liver infection.

 

Additionally, I shared some symptoms of diseases caused by Hemophilus influenza and Pneumococcal bacteria.

 

I encourage parents to take advantage of childhood immunization to minimize or prevent their children from contracting many of these preventable diseases.