This is the patient information sheet I give out with each vaccine I administer. It explains all the potential side effects and normally expected symptoms. Remember... possible side effects.... not what people normally get. The information is from the Centers for Disease Control and is required to pass out, be read and understood by the patient or care giver before being vaccinated. To date, I have not had anyone with any averse events. Just the mild soreness in the arm and a little raise in temperature which means you body is reacting to the vaccine. That is actually a desired event.
Long term, the vaccine introduced into your body is totally eliminated so there is nothing remaining to cause long term effects. If you don't have an immediate allergic reaction then there is very little else that happens. All we are trying to do is to train your white blood cells to recognize Human Papilloma Virus at an early stage of an infection. This allows you to fight it off quickly and not let it get set up in cervical cells to cause chronic irritation. The vaccine does not prevent all forms of HPV but 4 specific strains well known for causing 70% of reported cervical cancers are included in the vaccine (strains 6,11,16,18). This also means 30% of HPV cancers will not be affected by this vaccine at present since the strain responsible for there cause is not yet clearly known. There are over 50 different viral strains of HPV. That being said, a clear 70% reduction in known cancer types is a wonderful gift women should be happy to acquire.
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http://www.immunize.org/vis/hpv.pdf
This is the patient information sheet I give out with each vaccine I administer. It explains all the potential side effects and normally expected symptoms. Remember... possible side effects.... not what people normally get. The information is from the Centers for Disease Control and is required to pass out, be read and understood by the patient or care giver before being vaccinated. To date, I have not had anyone with any averse events. Just the mild soreness in the arm and a little raise in temperature which means you body is reacting to the vaccine. That is actually a desired event.
Long term, the vaccine introduced into your body is totally eliminated so there is nothing remaining to cause long term effects. If you don't have an immediate allergic reaction then there is very little else that happens. All we are trying to do is to train your white blood cells to recognize Human Papilloma Virus at an early stage of an infection. This allows you to fight it off quickly and not let it get set up in cervical cells to cause chronic irritation. The vaccine does not prevent all forms of HPV but 4 specific strains well known for causing 70% of reported cervical cancers are included in the vaccine (strains 6,11,16,18). This also means 30% of HPV cancers will not be affected by this vaccine at present since the strain responsible for there cause is not yet clearly known. There are over 50 different viral strains of HPV. That being said, a clear 70% reduction in known cancer types is a wonderful gift women should be happy to acquire.
Oh yeah I'm having the vaccination too. Yeah, there are some side affects of it I know that they are true too. But I still think it's worth having it.
Yeah, the risk of not having/dying of cervical cancer.
Other than that, transitory pain is common, nothing you can't stand.
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