Needles
Turning six months comes with its drawback: the six-month doctors visit...
M was given a clean bill of health and a pair of vaccinations (round three if I remember correctly). We received strict orders to have everyone in the family get a flu shot when the season starts.
He is also now scheduled to receive monthly shots during the winter season against the Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (aka RSV). RSV is ubiquitous in all parts of the world so just about everyone gets it at some point in their lives - 60% of infants get infected in their first season. Being infected does not make you immune so you can get it again and again... For most people it just shows up looking like a common cold but it causes 90,000 annual hospitalizations in the US alone. It is especially serious if you are, as they say, immunocompromised. The shot is not a vaccine (there is none) but a moderately effective prophylactic drug. Injections are given in your home by a traveling nurse. After all, the waiting room in a doctor's office in the winter is RSV-central so it is probably not a good idea to go there.
M was given a clean bill of health and a pair of vaccinations (round three if I remember correctly). We received strict orders to have everyone in the family get a flu shot when the season starts.
He is also now scheduled to receive monthly shots during the winter season against the Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (aka RSV). RSV is ubiquitous in all parts of the world so just about everyone gets it at some point in their lives - 60% of infants get infected in their first season. Being infected does not make you immune so you can get it again and again... For most people it just shows up looking like a common cold but it causes 90,000 annual hospitalizations in the US alone. It is especially serious if you are, as they say, immunocompromised. The shot is not a vaccine (there is none) but a moderately effective prophylactic drug. Injections are given in your home by a traveling nurse. After all, the waiting room in a doctor's office in the winter is RSV-central so it is probably not a good idea to go there.
posted by Patrik at 9/25/2006 10:16:00 PM
1 Comments:
We know all to well the dangers of RSV... Payton was hospitalized at 3 months of age with RSV and was very, very ill for 2 weeks. It was very scary! Lots of nebulizer treatments at our house! Reagan also had RSV when he was 18 months but as you stated because he was older he was able to "handle" it easier than an infant.
Mathias looks great - growing and changing way too fast!
angie and rob
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