Today I will be discussing about the specific disease called pneumococcal, the treatment of this disease, prevalence of this disease worldwide, the vaccine used to prevent this disease, the vaccine schedule, and the vaccines side effects.
First and foremost the disease pneumococcal is an infection caused by the Streptococcus pneumoniae bacterium. If you were to become infected with this bacterium you would develop pneumonia which is an infection that causes the air sacs of the lungs to fill up with fluid or pus which then can cause bacteremia, otitis media; middle ear infection, or bacterial meningitis. There are two types of pneumococcal disease, the first is non-invasive and spreads from the nose to the upper and lower respiratory tract…show more content… The first vaccine pneumococcal conjugate vaccine protects against the 13 types of different pneumococcal bacteria and can prevent some ear infections, the second vaccine is pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine protects against 23 different types of pneumococcal bacteria.
Furthermore, the Vaccine schedule depends on which vaccination you are giving and the age of the patient, if you are giving the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine this is given for children at 2,4,6 and 12-15 months of age, and if you are giving the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine this is given at the age 65 years or older. Pneumococcal Vaccine side effects are fever, redness at the injection site chills, headache, nausea, vomiting, fatigue or skin rash. In a clinical trial more than 60 percent of patients said that after receiving the vaccine the injection site had soreness, tenderness and pain, more than 20 percent said they had a headache, more than 17 percent said they had erythema and the rest said they had asthenia, fatigue (Cunha,
