Pneumococcal vaccine, prevention is safer.
Pneumococcal disease is caused by infection with the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae and can lead to serious infections.
- Pneumonia may cause high fever, cough with sputum, difficulty breathing, increased shortness of breath, and chest tightness.
- Meningitis may cause high fever, nausea, vomiting, severe headache, confusion, sensitivity to light, seizures, and loss of consciousness.
- Otitis media may cause ear pain, tinnitus, fever, dizziness, or loss of balance.
- Sepsis (septicemia) can cause high fever, chills, rapid heart rate, and fatigue. If the symptoms are more severe, it can cause low blood pressure, difficulty breathing, and can be life-threatening.
Who should get the pneumococcal vaccine to prevent potentially life-threatening complications?
- People aged 50 years and over, เล่น UFABET ผ่านมือถือ สะดวกทุกที่ ทุกเวลา because people aged 50 years and over who are infected with pneumococcus are 6 times more likely to be hospitalized with pneumonia than younger people.
- People aged 19-49 years and have immunodeficiency , including chronic renal failure, patients with impaired spleen or no spleen, those receiving immunosuppressive drugs or chemotherapy, all types of cancer including leukemia and lymphoma, AIDS, bone marrow failure, nephrotic syndrome, sickle cell disease, and those who have received an organ transplant.
- People aged 19-49 years with a cerebrospinal fluid leak or a history of cochlear implant surgery.
- People aged 19-49 years with chronic diseases such as chronic alcoholism, heart disease, chronic liver disease, chronic lung disease (emphysema, asthma), diabetes, regular smokers, and diabetes.
What types of pneumococcal vaccines are there?
In Thailand, there are currently two main groups of pneumococcal vaccines available :
- Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) can stimulate good immunity, suitable for young children, the elderly and people with chronic diseases.
Examples of vaccines:
- PCV13 (protects against 13 strains)
- PCV15 (protects against 15 strains)
- PCV20 (protects against 20 strains) is a new vaccine in Thailand that is more effective in preventing severe infection in Thailand than PCV 13 and 15.
- There is currently only one type of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, PPSV23, which covers 23 strains of the virus and can stimulate immunity in adults and the elderly well, but it is not suitable for children under 2 years of age.