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What are vaccines?
Vaccines are injections (shots), liquids, pills, or nasal sprays that you take to teach your body's immune system to recognize and defend against harmful germs. For example, there are vaccines to protect against diseases caused by:
- Viruses, like the ones that cause the flu and COVID-19
- Bacteria, including tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis
There are several types of vaccines:
- Live-attenuated vaccines use a weakened form of the germ.
- Inactivated vaccines use a killed version of the germ.
- Subunit, recombinant, polysaccharide, and conjugate vaccines use only specific pieces of the germ, such as its protein, sugar, or casing.
- Toxoid vaccines that use a toxin (harmful product) made by the germ.
- mRNA vaccines use messenger RNA, which gives your cells instructions for how to make a protein (or piece of a protein) of the germ.
- Viral vector vaccines use genetic material, which gives your cells instructions for making a protein of the germ. These vaccines also contain a different, harmless virus that helps get the genetic material into your cells.
Vaccines work in different ways, but they all spark an immune response. The immune response is the way your body defends itself against substances it sees as foreign or harmful. These substances include germs that can cause disease.
What happens in an immune response?There are different steps in the immune response:
- When a germ invades, your body sees it as foreign.
- Your immune system helps your body fight off the germ.
- Your immune system also remembers the germ. It will attack the germ if it ever invades again. This "memory" protects you against the disease that the germ causes. This type of protection is called immunity.
Immunization is the process of becoming protected against a disease. But it can also mean the same thing as vaccination, which is getting a vaccine to become protected against a disease.
Why are vaccines important?Vaccines are important because they protect you against many diseases. These diseases can be very serious. So getting immunity from a vaccine is safer than getting immunity by being sick with the disease. And for a few vaccines, getting vaccinated can actually give you a better immune response than getting the disease would.
But vaccines don't just protect you. They also protect the people around you through community immunity.
What is community immunity?Community immunity, or herd immunity, is the idea that vaccines can help keep communities healthy.
Normally, germs can travel quickly through a community and make a lot of people sick. If enough people get sick, it can lead to an outbreak. But when enough people are vaccinated against a certain disease, it's harder for that disease to spread to others. This type of protection means that the entire community is less likely to get the disease.
Community immunity is especially important for people who can't get certain vaccines. For example, they may not be able to get a vaccine because they have weakened immune systems. Others may be allergic to certain vaccine ingredients. And newborn babies are too young to get some vaccines. Community immunity can help to protect them all.
Are vaccines safe?Vaccines are safe. They must go through extensive safety testing and evaluation before they are approved in the United States.
What is a vaccine schedule?A vaccine, or immunization, schedule lists which vaccines are recommended for different groups of people. It includes who should get the vaccines, how many doses they need, and when they should get them. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes the vaccine schedule.
It's important for both children and adults to get their vaccines according to the schedule. Following the schedule allows them to get protection from the diseases at exactly the right time.
Protect FDA Approved Drugs
- Ella is a progesterone agonist/antagonist emergency contraception indicated for the prevention of pregnancy following unprotected intercourse or a known or suspected contraceptive failure. ella can be taken with or without food.
- Method for contraception to a woman comprising administering to the woman 30mg of ulipristal acetate more than 72 hours and up to 120 hours after an unprotected intercourse.
- Method for providing post coital contraception to a woman by administering about 30 mg of ulipristal acetate within about 120 hours after intercourse, wherein the woman is overweight having a bmi of 25 to 29.99.
Home Remedies for Protect
   Apply Aloe Vera gel to burns to sooth and protect this skin.MaryFreeman | November 4th, 2017
   Emergency contraception is to only be used after unprotected sex, not for regular birth control. Emergency contraception that contains the same hormone used in many birth control pills - just at a higher dose. Helps prevent pregnancy. It should not be used as regular birth control because it's not as effective.
Mechanism - hormoneShizs | July 15th, 2018
   Other than abstinence, the best protection again STI's is a latex condom. Helps prevent pregnancy.
Mechanism - latex barrier, lubricantTimmyStymn | July 15th, 2018
Felter's Materia Medica on Protect
   The sifted flour of the grain of Triticum sativum, Lamarck (Nat. Ord. Graminaceae). Common Names: Wheat Flour, Common Flour. Principal... / ...f such agents as iodoform. Internal. A thinned paste of wheat flour is demulcent and may be used to protect an irritated stomach and esophagus in cases of irritant and corrosive poisons. In the absenc... / ...than medicines.1
   ...cines. Preparation.Gelatinum Glycerinatum, Glycerinated Gelatin. Action and Therapy.Styptic and protective. Gelatin may be used in the treatment of some forms of eczema and nasal catarrh; and as a....... Gelatin may be used in the treatment of some forms of eczema and nasal catarrh; and as a soothing protective in rectal affections. It enters into the pharmacal preparation of capsules, lozenges, waf...1
   Glucose, Liquid Glucose, Syrupy Glucose. A syrupy liquid, composed chiefly of dextrose (dextro-glucose) and dextrin. It is obtained by the... / ...ing in food value closely to sugar. Diuretic properties have been ascribed to it, and it is said to protect against fatty degeneration produced by the administration of general anesthetics. Glucose, i...1
   ...o abraded surfaces. The discomfort quickly subsides, however, and it then acts as an antiseptic and protective emollient to the skin. It is a demulcent to mucous tissues. Applied to the rectum it prov......fects. Glycerin kills parasites, both cutaneous and intestinal, and allays itching, probably by its protective, antiseptic, and hygroscopic powers. Glycerin is rapidly absorbed by the intestines and i......arts make it the most largely used external application in a great variety of local disorders. Its protective unctuousness without being greasy, its splendid and extensive solvent powers, its ability...1
   ...t is preferred by many to poultices and magmas for use in acute lung diseases. It maintains an even protection from changes of temperature, and slight moisture usually accumulates under it, thus makin......e. Cotton is widely used in surgical practice for sponging and dressings, to take up secretions, to protect painful surfaces in burns and scalds, and to prevent the ingress of atmospheric microbic inv...1
   The leaves and tops of Hedeoma pulegioides (Linné,) Persoon (Nat. Ord. Labiatae). Common in American woods and waste places. Dose, 5 to 60... / .... It is useful in embrocations for rheumatic pain. It is sometimes applied to the hands and face to protect against mosquitoes, fleas, and other insects. A cloth saturated with oil of pennyroyal may b... / ...for this effect it is one of the most certain of medicines; and a relic of domestic methods once in favor among physicians, as well as the laity.1
   The fruit (berries) of the Juniperus communis, Linné (Nat. Ord. Cupressaceae). An evergreen tree of Europe and America. Common Names: Juniper,... / ...of Juniper. Colorless, faintly green or yellow oil of the juniper taste and odor. It should be kept protected from light in amber-hued bottles and in a cool place. Dose, 2 to 15 minims. 3. Spiritus Ju... / ...given in doses larger than recommended above, as suppression of urine, strangury, hematuria, or even uremic convulsions may result from its use.1
   The spores of Lycopodium clavatum, Linné (Nat. Ord. Lycopodiaceae) or Club Moss, a creeping perennial found in most parts of the earth; gathered... / ...ains the clothing; water-brash; borborygmus. Action and Therapy.External. Lycopodium forms a good protective and absorbent dusting powder for irritated and inflamed surfaces, for which purpose it is... / ...are voided. The small dose, from the fraction of a drop to five drops of the specific medicine, is the most advantageous form of administration.1
   Olive Oil, Sweet Oil. A fixed oil obtained from the ripe fruit of Olea europaea, Linné (Nat. Ord. Oleaceae). The olive tree of Asia and southern... / ...arachin. Action.Emollient and demulcent, nutritive and mildly aperient. Applied to the skin it is protective and softening, and when accompanied, by massage is readily absorbed and appropriated by t... / ...however, be given in either phosphorus or cantharides poisoning, as the activity of these substances through oil solution is decidedly increased.1
   ...ith colic, and watery or mucoid passages. Action.Applied externally castor oil is non-irritating, protective, and somewhat emollient. When swallowed it does not irritate the stomach, and the nausea ......s. Castor oil seeds are poisonous, twenty having killed a child. Therapy.External. Castor oil is protective and slightly stimulating to denuded surfaces, and may be dropped into the eye after burns...1
   Cacao Butter, Oil of Theobroma, Butter of Cacao. A concrete fixed oil expressed from the roasted seeds of Theobroma Cacao, Linné (Nat. Ord.... / ...nal. Cacao butter is emollient, and inasmuch as it does not readily turn rancid may be used for the protection of abraded or excoriated surfaces, and by inunction massage to improve the general nutrit...1
   The dried, inner bark of Ulmus fulva, Michaux (Nat. Ord. Ulmaceae). Eastern half of the United States, in woods. Common Names: Slippery Elm, Elm, Elm Bark. Principal... / ... cough. It is one of the best agents to use after poisoning by irritants, to allay the distress and protect the inflamed tissues.1
Physician's Materia Medica on Protect
   Tonic, antispasnmdic, astringent. Used internally as a nerve sedative in epilepsy, hysteria, chronic alcoholism, etc.; as a remedy of unquestioned value in colliquative sweats, also in diarrhea, par ticularly of dysenteric type. Its most important use, however. is as a soothing and protecting application, in form of an ointment, to burns, scalds, ulcers, wounds, fissures, moist eruptions of the skin, etc. Dose, 0.06 to 0.50 Grm. (1 to 8 grs.).2
Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Protect
   When threatened, harden skin by frequent use of astringent lotions, lead water, tannin dissolved in dilute alcohol, 2 grs. to fl. oz.; whiskey and salt (2 drachms to pint); Antiseptine diluted with wa ter or whiskey. When ulcers have formal, protect with soap plaster and use antiseptics. especially Iodosyl ointment. Sustain patient’s strength with nourishing and predigested food. Iron in form of the tincture is generally of service.2
References
2) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.