Tips For Maximizing The Effectiveness Of Your Vaccine- Health Experts Suggest
Nikki Attkisson | Last Updated : November 22, 2022As the popular proverb goes “Prevention is better than cure,” many diseases can be prevented if we maintain a healthy and disciplined lifestyle.
Some diseases including viral diseases and life-threatening diseases are hard to cure, so special steps should be taken to prevent those.
Vaccines are one of the most effective ways of protecting people from harmful diseases. Nowadays vaccines are available to prevent more than 20 life-threatening diseases, including various forms of cancer, cholera, tuberculosis, and encephalitis.
Vaccines are so safe that even newborns and pregnant ladies can take them, under the supervision of healthcare professionals.
Some Suggestions For Maximising The Effectiveness Of Your Immunisation
The working mechanisms of all vaccines are different. Vaccines protect our bodies by recognizing the disease, identifying the specific disease-causing pathogens, and helping the body fight against the pathogens.
Each vaccine contains either dead germs or weakened germs of the specific disease. Depending on the individual’s response to vaccination, more than one vaccination dose or maintenance booster dose may be needed.
The recent coronavirus pandemic had shook the entire world and shattered the lives of millions of people. Coronavirus vaccines emerged as a boon by not only reducing the severity of the infections but these vaccines even reducing the incidences of hospitalizations to a great extent.
For making vaccines more effective, individuals have to follow several tips, under the advice of their physicians. First and foremost is the durability of the vaccines.
Vaccines are undoubtedly safe and effective, but with time, their efficacy does wean off, mandating the need for additional vaccine doses. None of the vaccines available today guarantees lifelong immunity.
Various lifestyle modifications including regular exercise and physical activities boost our immune system, making us less susceptible to any infections and diseases, and increasing the efficiency of the vaccines.
Along with regular exercise, a healthy balanced diet with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables also helps in increasing the efficiency of vaccines by building strong immunity.
One can get hold of healthy life by getting rid of one smoking habit, keeping away from regular alcohol, and avoiding more spicy foods and which can also reduce the severity of any infectious diseases and increase vaccine effectiveness.
Reducing stress and having adequate sleep also go a long way in increasing the efficiency of vaccines. People leading a stressful life and having poor sleep patterns often tend to develop a weakened immune system, resulting in losing the efficacy of vaccines. Also, it is very important that one gets proper sleep after having any vaccine so that the body’s immune system gets time to respond.
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Many people often report side effects after vaccination such as fever, body aches, headache, etc. After taking the vaccination. These symptoms are quite common and usually resolve in a day or two, sometimes even without any medical intervention. It is however not advisable to refrain from vaccinations, owing to these side effects. Doctors from all over the world strongly urge to get vaccinated against various diseases.
No matter what the situation is, we should get vaccinated, under the supervision of a healthcare professional. Various factors for taking vaccination include the age of the individual and his/her underlying health conditions.
Widespread awareness about vaccine acceptance and vaccine accessibility should be initiated by doctors and researchers from all over the world. People should be educated that the benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks associated with them.
With the advent of the winter season, when we are more and more prone to viral diseases, vaccines come as the ultimate savior. It is absolutely necessary that even after getting vaccinated, we follow the instructions given to us by our doctors so that our body responds to the vaccines in the best possible way. These tips will also increase the efficacy of the vaccines.
References:
🔵National Library Of Medicine (n.d) Sufficient Sleep, Time of Vaccination, and Vaccine Efficacy: A Systematic Review of the Current Evidence and a Proposal for COVID-19 Vaccination (Available On):https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9235253/
🔵WebMD(2005-2022) COVID-19 Vaccine: How Best to Prepare (Available On):https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210127/covid-19-vaccine-how-best-to-prepare
With over 15 years as a practicing journalist, Nikki Attkisson found herself at Powdersville Post now after working at several other publications. She is an award-winning journalist with an entrepreneurial spirit and worked as a journalist covering technology, innovation, environmental issues, politics, health etc. Nikki Attkisson has also worked on product development, content strategy, and editorial management for numerous media companies. She began her career at local news stations and worked as a reporter in national newspapers.