Flu

Flu is a viral infection which differs from the usual CARVI (catarrhal acute respiratory viral infections) by a higher rise in temperature and acute forms of the organism intoxication (asthenia, nausea, and eye-muscle pain). Besides, flu causes a greater number of complications including heart problems (for instance, myocarditis) and lung problems (pneumonia), otitis – a middle ear inflammation (sometimes it develops into meningitis –brain walls inflammation), vascular and center nervous system affection. The underside of flu is a danger to undermine one"s health. And it takes two weeks to recover. In that way, flu is associated with a spoilt rest, lagging behind, and at last, material damage caused to a family, corporate and state budget.

Flu is a respiratory infection. When a sick person is breathing, coughing or sneezing, the virus gets into the air through phlegm, drops of saliva and nasal slime, thus infecting surrounding people. Then the virus gets into the human organism and partly perishes, but excretes toxic substances (toxins), which exert poisonous effect on the organism. People of any age demonstrate a very high susceptibility to the virus in any season of the year.

Flu is a viral infection. That"s why it cannot be treated by means of antibiotics. Available methods of treatment allow only alleviating a sick person state and reducing the sickness duration a little bit. A paradox of the disease lies in the fact that even people with the strongest immune system are subject to the virus. There are several reasons of the phenomenon. First of all, the virus mutates, which means that human organism faces a new mutated virus every year. Secondly, the virus reproduces with an exclusively high speed and literally gains the upper hand over the organism defensive installations with the exception of cases, when there is a fill of antibodies in the organism, which are able to combat this sort of virus and stop the avalanche of harmful microbes. World Health Organization (WHO) recommends flu vaccination as a single effective method to protect people from the infection which gives an opportunity to build up a joint immunity.  

There are precise recommendations on flu vaccination for different population group. In a word, it is necessary to make a flu vaccine in the following groups: children and adults with weak health, people suffering from chronic respiratory diseases, cardio-vascular system diseases, insular diabetes, and children who often fall sick; as well as elderly people because they hardly endure flu and suffer from a great number of complications.  The vaccination is strongly recommended to people who work in huge collectives: medical personnel, teachers, children who attend kindergarten and school, and students. The optimal time for vaccination is September – October; then sufficient immune protection forms to the beginning of an epidemic season – December and January. It is important to make vaccination before the epidemic season begins. If you make it later, there is a danger to vaccinate during a latent period of the disease (incubation period). 

Our specialists vaccinate in a specially equipped vaccination room, at home or even at your work place. After vaccination they issue a medical certificate, fix the name of a vaccine, a series, a number and a date of vaccination, the name of a patient care institution, and presence of adverse reactions. Nowadays effectiveness and safety of modern flu vaccinations is a scientifically proven fact. It is especially topical for children of a risk group. 

You may discuss the expediency of vaccination with a pediatrician who keeps your child under observation and knows all the peculiarities of his/her organism: how he/she endures vaccination on the whole, how he/she reacts on rise in temperature during CARVI, whether he/she has spasms in the course of the disease and etc. To make sure that everything will be all right you may undergo at least minimal medical examination including urine and blood bulk analysis. You shouldn"t obtain a vaccine by yourself. A physician may refuse to inject a vaccine obtained in a drugstore or elsewhere, because in this case he/she is not sure whether it has been transported and stored properly. Improper transportation and storage of the vaccine may cause complications after injection or vaccine inefficiency. In our center you can have a quality assurance of a vaccine injected.