(YEL oh FEE ver) Brand: YF-Vax
• Yellow fever vaccine is for use in adults and children who are at least 9 months old. The vaccine is given each 10 years to people who are at risk of exposure to yellow fever. Your individual booster schedule may be various from these guidelines. Follow your doctor's instructions or the schedule recommended by your local health department or the Centers for Malady Control and Prevention (CDC).
• You can still receive a vaccine if you have a minor cool. In the case of a more severe diseases with a fever or any type of infection, wait before you get better till receiving this vaccine.
• You must not receive a booster vaccine if you had a life-threatening allergic reaction after the first shot.
• Hold track of any and all side effects you have after receiving this vaccine. When you receive a booster doze, you will need to speak the doctor if the previous shots caused any side effects.
• Becoming infected with yellow fever is many more dangerous to your health than receiving this vaccine. However, like any medication, this vaccine can reason side effects but the risk of serious side effects is extremely low.
• Yellow fever is a serious malady caused by a virus that is spread through the bite of an infected mosquito. Yellow fever can reason fever and flu-like diseases, jaundice (yellowing of the eyes and skin), liver failure, respiratory failure, kidney failure, vomiting of blood, and possibly death.
• The yellow fever vaccine is used to help prevent this malady in adults and children who are at least 9 months old. This vaccine works by exposing you to a little doze of the virus, which causes the body to develop immunity to the malady. This vaccine will not treat an active infection that has already developed in the body.
• This vaccine is recommended for people who plan to live in or travel to areas where yellow fever is known to exist, or where an epidemic has recently occurred. The vaccine must also be given to people who will spend any amount of time in rural areas where yellow fever is endemic, or those who are otherwise at tall risk of coming into contact with the virus.
• You must receive the vaccine at least 10 days prior to your arrival in an area where you may be exposed to the virus.
• This vaccine is also recommended for people who work in a studies laboratory and may be exposed to yellow fever virus through needle-stick accidents or inhalation of viral droplets in the air.
• Like any vaccine, the yellow fever vaccine may not provide protection from malady in each person.
• You must not receive this vaccine if you have ever had a life-threatening allergic reaction to a yellow fever vaccine, or if you have:
· an allergy to gelatin, eggs, or chicken proteins;
· a chronic malady such as asthma or another breathing mess, diabetes, kidney malady, or blood cell disorders such as anemia;
· a weak immune system caused by malady (such as cancer, HIV, or AIDS);
· if you are receiving treatments that can weaken the immune system (such as radiation, chemotherapy, or steroids); or
· if you are breast-feeding a baby.
• Speak your doctor if anyone living with you has cancer or a weak immune system, or is receiving treatments that can weaken the immune system (such as radiation, chemotherapy, or steroids).
• If you have a tall risk of exposure to yellow fever, you may need to receive the vaccine even if you have an allergy to eggs or chicken products. Your doctor can give you the vaccine in different little doses to avoid an allergic reaction.
• To create certain you can safely receive yellow fever vaccine, speak your doctor if you have any of these another conditions:
· a history of seizures;
· an allergy to latex rubber;
· a neurologic mess or malady affecting the brain (or if this was a reaction to a previous vaccine);
· a history of myasthenia gravis, tumor of the thymus gland, or if your thymus gland has been surgically removed; or
· a weak immune system caused by malady (such as cancer, HIV, or AIDS), or by taking determined medicines such as steroids.
• You can still receive a vaccine if you have a cool or fever. In the case of a more severe diseases with a fever or any type of infection, wait before you get better till receiving this vaccine.
• Vaccines may be deleterious to an unborn child and usually must not be given to a pregnant woman. However, not vaccinating the mother could be more deleterious to the child if the mother becomes infected with a malady that this vaccine could prevent. Your doctor will solve whether you must receive this vaccine, especially if you have a tall risk of infection with yellow fever.
• You must not receive this vaccine if you are breast-feeding a baby.
• Children younger than 9 months old must not receive this vaccine, and must not travel to areas where yellow fever is known to exist.
• This vaccine is injected into a muscle. You will receive this injection in a doctor's office or clinic setting.
• Yellow fever vaccine is given each 10 years to people who are at risk of exposure to yellow fever. The first shot can be given to a baby who is at least 9 months old. Your individual booster schedule may be various from these guidelines. Follow your doctor's instructions or the schedule recommended by your local health department or the Centers for Malady Control and Prevention (CDC).
• In addition to receiving yellow fever vaccine, use protective clothing, insect repellents, and mosquito netting near your bed to further prevent mosquito bites that could infect you with the yellow fever virus.
• If you continue to travel or live in areas where yellow fever is general, you must receive a booster doze of yellow fever vaccine each 10 years.
• After receiving the vaccine, you will be given an International Certificate of Vaccination (yellow card) from the office or clinic where you receive your yellow fever vaccine. This certificate must contain the date you received the vaccine, as well as the vaccine's lot number and manufacturer. You will need this card as proof of vaccination to enter determined countries. This card becomes valid 10 days after you receive the vaccination and remains valid for 10 years.
• Your doctor may recommend treating fever and pain with an aspirin-free pain reliever such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil, and others) when the shot is given and for the following 24 hours. Follow the label directions or your doctor's instructions about how many of this medication to take. It is especially significant to prevent fever from occurring if you have a seizure mess such as epilepsy.
• This vaccine can reason false results on a skin test for tuberculosis for up to 6 weeks. Speak any doctor who treats you if you have received a yellow fever vaccine within the past 4 to 6 weeks.
• Conversation with your doctor if you are receiving this vaccine smaller than 10 days prior to your arrival in an area where you may be exposed to the yellow fever virus.
• Be certain you receive a booster doze of yellow fever vaccine each 10 years if you continue to travel or live in areas where yellow fever is general. If you do not receive the vaccine each 10 years, you may not be fully protected against the disease.
• An overdose of this vaccine is unlikely to occur.
• Do not receive other "live" vaccine for at least 4 weeks after you have received the yellow fever vaccine. Live vaccines may not work as well during this time, and may not fully protect you from malady. Live vaccines include measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), oral polio, rotavirus, smallpox, typhoid, yellow fever, varicella (chickenpox), H1N1 influenza, and nasal flu vaccine.
• You must not receive a booster vaccine if you had a life-threatening allergic reaction after the first vaccine.
• Hold track of any and all side effects you have after receiving this vaccine (for up to 30 days after the shot). If you ever need to receive a booster doze, you will need to speak the doctor if the previous doze caused any side effects.
• Becoming infected with yellow fever is many more dangerous to your health than receiving the vaccine to protect against it. Like any medication, this vaccine can reason side effects, but the risk of serious side effects is extremely low.
• Get abnormal medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: pale skin, hives; weakness, dizziness, difficulty breathing, rapid heart course; swelling of your person, lips, tongue, or throat.
• Call your doctor at once if you have any of these serious side effects (may occur up to 30 days after you receive the vaccine):
· flu symptoms, stiff neck or back, vomiting, confusion, memory loss, irritability, loss of balance or coordination;
· weakness or prickly feeling in your fingers or toes, sensitivity to light;
· problems with walking, breathing, speech, swallowing, vision, or eye movement;
· severe lower back pain, loss of bladder or bowel control;
· muscle weakness or loss of movement in any part of your body; or
· behavior changes, seizure (black-out or convulsions).
• Smaller serious side effects (may occur for 5 to 10 days after you receive the vaccine) include:
· low fever, mild headache, common ill feeling;
· mild rash, muscle pain, joint pain, body aches; or
· pain, tenderness, swelling, or a lump where the shot was given.
• This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may message vaccine side effects to the US Department of Health and Human Services at 1-800-822-7967.
• Till receiving this vaccine, speak the doctor about all another vaccines you have recently received.
• If you are using any of these medications, you may not be able to receive the vaccine, or may need to wait before the another treatments are finished.:
· an oral, nasal, inhaled, or injectable steroid medicine;
· medications to treat psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, or another autoimmune disorders; or
· medicines to treat or prevent organ transplant rejection.
• This list is not complete and another drugs may interact with this vaccine. Speak your doctor about all medications you use. This includes prescription, over the counter, vitamin, and herbal commodity. Do not start a new medicine without telling your doctor.
• Your doctor or pharmacist can provide more information about this vaccine. Additional information is accessible from your local health department or the Centers for Malady Control and Prevention.
Remember, hold this and all another medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medicine only for the indication prescribed.
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