Vitamin A and measles infection due to lack of nutrition

Health Reporter | Madhubani

Information about serious infectious diseases in children is important. It is also necessary to take more into account the immunity of children, especially so that they can cope with any disease in future. Measles is a serious and fatal disease in infectious diseases that also causes the death of children. In such a situation, children can be protected by strengthening immunity and its effective method is vaccination. Pediatrician Dr. DK Jha said the above things. He said that measles disease is also called measles. This is caused by rubella virus. According to the World Health Organization, measles disease spreads into the air in the drops of infected person with cough or sneezing and affects the other. Its symptoms take 14 days to appear. Due to infection, the patient gets rashes with itching on the body with cough and fever. These rashes first emerge on the back, neck and head of the ears. The patient suffers from pneumonia and severe diarrhea and dies due to lack of treatment. Civil surgeon Dr. Naresh Kumar Bhimsaria said that measles causes brain damage including many physical complications such as blindness, mennizitis or brain inflammation. A major cause of this infection is lack of nutrition. Infectious diseases in malnourished children soon attacked the body. It affects children with weak immune system with vitamin A deficiency very much and quickly. CS said that regular immunization by the Health Department is done every Wednesday and Friday at all Anganwadi centers in the district. In MMR vaccination, measles vaccines are applied along with mumps and rubella vaccines. This vaccination is required to be done with the baby being one year old. There is also a perception about infection that it increases the immunity of children, but it is all false and due to lack of timely treatment, the child dies. MMR vaccination is effective for prevention of measles infection. Vaccination is done on nine months and one and a half years. Along with this, the baby is also given a dose of vitamin A.