Vaccine Reactions
Key Points
Key Points
- Immunization is perhaps the greatest public health achievement of all time, having significantly reduced the morbidity and mortality of many infectious diseases.
- There are approximately 235 million doses of vaccines administered in the United States each year.
- Anaphylactic reactions to vaccines are estimated to occur at a rate of approximately 1 per million doses.
- Patients with suspected allergy to vaccines or vaccine components should be evaluated by an allergist/immunologist.
- Most patients with suspected allergy to vaccines can receive vaccination safely.
Diagnosis and Assessment
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...l, live vaccines should not be given to persons...
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...Vaccines Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG)...
...accines Diphtheria, tetanus and acellular p...
...t of Vaccine Reactions...
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...rring within 4 hours of vaccine administration...
...ssible Anaphylactic Reaction: Signs and/or...
...Vaccine Skin Test...
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...rick test with full strength vaccine is negative...
...component/food skin prick tests: Influenza:...
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...wer than the recommended number of doses...
...Note 4...
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