After 11-Month Old Baby Suffers Stroke, Doctors Are Urging Parents Not To Underestimate Vaccinating Their Children

Aug 23, 2018

Should children be vaccinated, or should they not? Many parents in our modern day society are debating upon this very question. Because parents have the choice of whether or not they want to let their child receive vaccinations, they’ve been weighing the benefits and consequences. For parents who have neglected to vaccinate their children, however, the costs can be extremely dangerous and even detrimental to their children.

Recently, an 11-month-old baby boy suffered a stroke.

The stroke came as a complication of the chicken pox virus. The child got this illness from his older sibling, who had not been vaccinated. Now doctors are reminding parents about the crucial need to vaccinate in order to avoid the same circumstances for other children. After her baby’s nap, the mother of the child noticed that his right leg and arm appeared to be weak and limp.

She rushed the baby to the urgent care center to try to determine what was wrong. Once there, she informed doctors that both of her children had chicken pox in the previous months before. She reminded doctors that this meant her older children were not vaccinated for the intense infection.

In modern society, we have statistics about just how dangerous chicken pox can be. 84% of children had complications with their central nervous system as a symptom of their chicken pox between the years of 1999 and 2012. 10% of them suffered strokes.

Doctors have long warned parents to vaccinate their children due to the risks it puts on their health, but also because it can also hurt the children that surround them.

Babies have weak immune systems and are unable to receive the vaccine until they are over the age of 1, so it’s important to look out for their health and safety.

People don’t seem to understand the harsh complications that chicken pox can bring to someone that has been infected. A child can develop a bacterial infection, strep throat, get dehydrated, develop sepsis, catch pneumonia, or be impacted by toxic shock syndrome as a result of chicken pox.

In order to avoid these grim side effects and consequences, it’s important to use the preventative measure of getting a vaccine. The CDC, or the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, maintains their claim that just two doses of the varicella vaccine can protect your child by up to 90% from developing the virus.

Although children who have been vaccinated can sometimes still contract the disease, the vaccine reduces the consequences and complications that come with it.

After this story, are you going to vaccinate your children? What´s your opinion on vaccination? Pass this article on to your friends and loved ones, as well.

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