Vaccinating Children

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Vaccinating Children

Vaccinating the children has been one of the most controversial topics in history, as a great majority of the society held the point of view that vaccination was the source of causing major health concerns to the children. It was introduced back in the last decade of the eighteenth century and since then it has saved the lives of hundreds of millions of children across the globe. The vaccinations introduce the weakest form of the cells different diseases in the bodies of the children, which help them develop immunity against those cells and fight against the healthy cells of the disease if they ever interact with them. Measles, polio, smallpox, and diphtheria were among the common diseases which used to take the lives of thousands of children annually; however, after the introduction of the vaccines in the society the rate of death among the children due to these diseases decreased drastically. Although the effectiveness of the vaccines has been proved through the practice of years, still some sections of the society think that it is not safe and give rise to a number of other health concerns among the children, due to which the parents avoid getting their children vaccinated. Getting the children vaccinated against a number of diseases is not only the right of the children, however, it also secures and ensures their healthy and progressive future.

Vaccination was considered the source of making the immunity of the children weaker, resulting in their deaths. At one point in the history parents used to think that vaccination is the strategy of the government to control the population of the society by killing the young children. However, it is not right and vaccination actually makes the bodies of the children stronger, by helping them to develop immunity against the cells of different diseases. The most important reason for vaccinating the children ta the young age is that their bodies are in the process of development at that time. If they catch the cells of the diseases, it would progress and make the child sick. On the other hand, if the child is vaccinated with the weaker cells of the same disease, other cells of the body would fight against the weaker cells and make the body stronger, while developing the immunity against that disease (DeStefano, Bodenstab, and Offit, 1).

Vaccination practices of hundreds of years have proved the safety of the use of vaccination over the children. Apart from the example of the effectiveness of the vaccines, there are a number of other examples of the children who are suffering from the drastic impacts of the diseases, because their parents refused to get them vaccinated against the diseases. People in the developed countries of the world are still aware of the benefits as well as the necessity of getting their children vaccinated, however, the people in the developing and underdeveloped countries of the world think that it is the propaganda of the western world against them as they want to make their children sick by vaccinating the diseases and other halite issues to their bodies through such tactics. However, it is the most negligent attitude of the parents which endangers the life and health of their children (Yuan, Besley, and Ma, 4).

Getting vaccinated is the right and each and every child and parents have the responsibility of ensuring it. In the modern time, most of the mothers do not get their children vaccinated because they think that the vaccinations increase the chances of the development of diabetes, autism and ADHD among their children (McNeil et al., 49). The conception is altogether wrong as there has been a number of researches in the filed in order to explore the negative impacts of vaccines upon the health of the children, which include the physical and mental health conditions. Some children are weak by birth, due to getting some of the diseases from the genes of their parents. There are chances that such children would become ill after being vaccinated, however, it does not mean or prove that the vaccinations are the source of causing the disease. In some other cases, such children also develop the immunity of fighting against the diseases which they had by birth. So it is very important to get all the children vaccinated against the fatal diseases, irrespective of their physical or mental health condition (Gray, and Cathie, 1).

Getting the children vaccinated against a number of diseases like polio, measles, smallpox and diphtheria is also necessary because the vacancies ensure the eradication of the diseases for the next generations. There are a number of countries in the world which are now secure from polio. These countries have regular vaccinated their children over the short spans of time against polio, due to which the children are now secure and transfer the immunity of the disease to their future generations through their genes and the future generations do not need to get the vaccination (Saada, et al., 238).

Vaccinating the children against a number of diseases is one of the most important gifts that the parents can give to their children, as it will ensure their health and safety against the fatal diseases for their whole life. All the children have the right to being provided with a healthy atmosphere, which can support their development and progress and vaccination against diseases is the most important step towards it. The vaccinations do not contain the medication or material which would take the life of the children, so the patents should stay assured of the quality of the vaccines and ensure the safety and health of their children by getting them vaccinated.

Works Cited

DeStefano, Frank, Heather Monk Bodenstab, and Paul A. Offit. "Principal Controversies in Vaccine Safety in the United States." Clinical Infectious Diseases (2019).

Gray, Sebastian J., and Katrina Cathie. "Fifteen-minute consultation: Chickenpox vaccine—should parents immunise their children privately?" Archives of Disease in Childhood-Education and Practice (2018): edpract-2018.

McNeil, Deborah A., et al. "Maternal perceptions of childhood vaccination: explanations of reasons for and against vaccination." BMC public health 19.1 (2019): 49.

Saada, Adrianna, et al. "Parents’ choices and rationales for alternative vaccination schedules: A qualitative study." Clinical pediatrics 54.3 (2015): 236-243.

Yuan, Shupei, John C. Besley, and Wenjuan Ma. "Be mean or be nice? Understanding the effects of aggressive and polite communication styles in the child vaccination debate." Health communication (2018): 1-10.