Prevention for the “elderly”: 9 basic vaccinations that you must take
Prevention for the “elderly”: 9 basic vaccinations that you must take
Prevention for the “elderly”: 9 basic vaccinations that you must take
The Public Health Authority (Prevention) advised adults and the elderly to take a number of basic vaccinations on time to prevent diseases.
The authority stated that the national vaccination schedule for adults includes seasonal influenza vaccines (one dose), and the bacterial trio (one dose, then a booster dose every 10 years for adults) and for pregnant women (one dose with each new pregnancy between weeks 27-36).
She added that the schedule also includes triple viral vaccination (one or two doses, according to health status), provided that women are vaccinated before marriage and after childbirth, then chickenpox (two doses, 8 weeks apart, depending on health status).
And she noted taking the herpes zoster vaccination (two doses, 2-6 months apart, for the age of 50 years or older), papilloma virus (3 doses for women aged 15-26 years, 2 months apart from the first and second, and the third 6 months after the first), and combined quadruple meningitis ( One dose according to the situation, then a booster dose every 5 years).
And she pointed out that the schedule also includes the pneumococcus vaccination, and includes multiple pneumococci (one dose from the age of 15 years or older, one year after the dose of Streptococcus pneumoniae), and the combined pneumococcal (one dose for patients with immunity and chronic diseases for the age of 15 years and older), In addition to hepatitis B vaccination (3 doses if there is no confirmed immunity or previous vaccination, so that the second dose is taken one month after the first and the third dose after 6 months).
