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Senior Times - September 2019 IMMUNIZATIONS, WE
By: Glin Winsor, Practice Manager DayOne Family Healthcare P.C.
Regardless of age, we all need immunizations to keep us healthy. With time, immunity from childhood vaccines can decrease and you may be at risk for different diseases that could be prevented by being vaccinated with one of the new vaccines that are avail- able. With adulthood comes respon- sibility, including the need to protect our loved ones and ourselves. Getting immunized is a lifelong, life-protecting job.
The specific immunizations you need as an adult are determined by factors such as age, lifestyle, health conditions, locations of travel, and previous immunization.
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Our core business has historically been in the court-appointed services of guardian- ship and conservatorship, though we also serve as representative payee, by appoint- ment of the Social Security Administration, andVA duciary, by appointment of the Veterans Administration.
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We are seeking to grow our services for the general public.These include trust management, nancial power of attorney agreements, and money management programs, preventive offerings that can help people remain independent, avoid nancial crisis, and prevent the need for court intervention.
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All adults need:
• Influenza (flu)
• Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis
immune response, and possibly provide better protection against flu. Whether or not the improved immune response leads to greater protection against influenza disease after vaccination is not yet known.
(whooping cough) also called Tdap • Pneumococcal
• Shingrix (Shingles)
Influenza is a serious disease caused by a virus. This is not just the common cold. Each year, an average of 226,000 people are hospitalized due to influenza and between 3,000 and 49,000 people die of influenza and its complications, the majority are among adults. Influenza is very unpredictable. No one knows how deadly influenza will be each year. Even if you have a mild case of influenza, you can still pass the virus on to your friends and family who could get very sick or even die. You can catch influenza from people who cough, sneeze, or even just talk around you. Older adults and those with health conditions like lung and heart disease are at high risk for serious complications from influenza. But anyone can become seriously sick from influenza – even young, healthy people.
Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis are three different diseases caused by bacteria. Tetanus, also called Lockjaw, lives in the soil and gets into the body through cuts or wounds. The actual disease is caused when the bacteria release a toxin, or poison, into a per- son's body. Tetanus can cause extreme- ly painful muscle cramps all over the body. This disease can be deadly. In the most common form of tetanus, the first sign is spasm of the jaw muscles, followed by stiffness of the neck, and difficulty in swallowing.
The best way to protect yourself and others from the flu is to get immu- nized. The influenza vaccine is given each year because immunity decreases after a year and because each year’s vaccine is formulated to prevent that year’s anticipated influenza viruses. The CDC and other health organiza- tions determine the strains to be placed in each year’s vaccine. Neither the injectable (inactivated) vaccine nor the live attenuated (nasal spray) vaccine can cause influenza. Health experts recommend that you get vaccinated
as soon as vaccine is available at your pharmacy or doctor’s office. This can be as early as August or September.
Diphtheria is also caused when the bacteria release a toxin, or poison, into a person's body. Diphtheria bacteria live in the mouth, throat, and nose of an infected person and can be passed to others by coughing or sneezing. Death occurs in 5%-10% of people infected with diphtheria. Because of widespread immunization and better living con- ditions, diphtheria is now rare in the United States. In order to keep diphthe- ria a low concern, it is important that we continue to be immunized against this disease.
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Pertussis, also known as Whooping Cough, is spread through the air by coughing and sneezing. It is very con- tagious. Whooping cough can trigger coughing so severe that it results in vomiting and broken ribs.
Aging decreases the body's ability to have a good immune response after getting influenza vaccine. A higher dose of antigen in the vaccine is sup- posed to give older people a better
To help protect yourself and possi- bly your loved ones against these vac- cine-preventable bacterial infections, it is important to be immunized on a regular schedule. Because immunity
to diphtheria and tetanus wanes with time booster of Td are needed every 10 years.
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