To deal with pneumonia lies vaccination

With the scientific and technological progress, the improvement of living standards and medical conditions improve, the average human life expectancy to continue to extend, but the threat to the health of the elderly the incidence of pneumococcal pneumonia still a very high ratio. According to statistics, in some areas caused by pneumococcal pneumonia, the mortality rate as high as 16 percent, over the age of 50 to 28.6 percent fatality rate.

Pneumococcal pneumonia is the most common bacterial pneumonia. This cocci exists in the normal and nasopharyngeal oral cavity, is a parasitic bacteria. When climate change, physical fatigue, Shouliang, a cold, reduced resistance to the human body, these bacteria can flew intrusion into the human body, from otitis media, sinusitis, pneumonia, meningitis, septicemia, and so on; and in recent years because of the widespread application of antibiotics to pneumonia MI had a variety of drug resistance, some resistance to penicillin, and some of erythromycin, tetracycline, Pioneer also adriamycin resistance, which has brought to the treatment of difficulties. Especially the elderly with age and declining immune function, reducing resistance, prone to infection. Some of the elderly and those with chronic diseases such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, kidney and so on, in case of pneumonia, would enable the rapid deterioration of pneumonia, a life-threatening. Therefore, the elderly, early prevention of pneumococcal infection is extremely important.

The early 1970s, the United States approved the use of polysaccharide vaccine at 14. In the early 1980s, the World Health Division recommended 23 at the second generation vaccines, China is now promoting the use of such vaccines, it may include 90 percent common types of pneumococcal. Such Antigens bacterial vaccine containing only ingredients, no viable blood-borne diseases and the risk of pollution. Practice has proved that two weeks after the vaccination, the body produce antibodies to pneumococcal, and maintenance of more than five years time. So to promote the health of the elderly aged over 65 or have chronic liver disease, kidney disease, diabetes, poor lung function in adults, and the possible outbreak of pneumococcal infection in the crowd, should be timely vaccination.

Prevention is better than cure. At present, China has gradually entered an ageing society, in order to improve the quality of life of older persons, and significantly reduce the cost of health care, vaccination pneumococcal vaccine to prevent pneumonia may be one of the most effective measures.