Vaccine Basics
What does a vaccine train your immune system to do?
Recognize and fight specific diseases.
These are two common mild reactions that can happen after receiving a vaccine.
What are soreness/redness, fatigue, or mild fever?
When more people are immune to a contagious disease, the germ has fewer opportunities to do this.
What is spread
This vaccine is recommended every year.
What is the flu
This is one common place in the community where you can receive a vaccine.
What is pharmacy
What does your body make that helps fight pathogens?
Antiboides
This is the amount of time you may be asked to stay for observation after some vaccinations.
What is 15–30 minutes?
Higher vaccination coverage can help reduce these in the community.
What are outbreaks
You should keep a personal copy of these to know which vaccines you have received.
What are immunization records?
You should bring this with you to healthcare visits when possible so your provider knows which vaccines you've received.
What is vaccine records
True or False: Vaccines can use a weakened, killed, or harmless part of a germ to trigger an immune response.
True
Before getting vaccinated, you should tell your healthcare professional about this from any previous vaccines.
What are previous vaccine reactions?
Newborns, pregnant people, and older adults are examples of people who may be more _____ to contagious diseases.
Vulnerable
If you have missed vaccine doses, you should ask your healthcare professional about this type of vaccination.
What is catch-up vaccination?
Before vaccination, you should tell your healthcare professional about these from any vaccines you've received in the past.
What is previous vaccine reactions
What are the two things your immune system builds after vaccination that help it respond faster in the future?
Antibodies and memory cells
Difficulty breathing, hives, and swelling of the face or throat are signs of this type of reaction.
What is a severe reaction?
People with weakened immune systems are also called this
what is immunocompromised
Age, health conditions, travel, school, and work can all affect these.
What are your vaccination needs?
Primary care offices, pharmacies, campus health clinics, and community health centers can all provide this service.
What is vaccination?
Why might a vaccine require multiple doses or a booster?
To strengthen and reinforce protection.
This is what you should do if you experience difficulty breathing, hives, or swelling of the face or throat after vaccination.
breathing, hives, or swelling of the face or throat after vaccination.What is seek emergency medical attention?
Community protection can help protect people who cannot receive certain vaccines for these reasons
What is medical reasons
Before traveling, you should check these because some destinations may recommend additional vaccines.
What are travel vaccine recommendations or requirements?
You should check vaccine recommendations early before doing this because some vaccines may require multiple doses.
What is traveling