Do you feel the same kind of pain that your child undergoes when a vaccine is administered? It is quite natural for parents to feel the pain when their child is in pain. What if all the vaccines could be given in one shot? Yes, that seems to be possible by a technology developed by a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As the technology involves a new type of micro particle that can combine all the benefit of vaccines in one shot. Read the full report here.
One-shot vaccine
Essentially, this one-shot vaccination contains all the vaccines in microscopic capsules which are designed to release the required doses of all of them at specifically preset times such as 20 20 days, 40 days and even 100 days after the shot. As this technique has been successful on mice, researchers believe that it can work on humans as well. In fact, this can be a revolutionary method to minimise the pain of childhood immunisation both for the children and their parents worldwide. However, it has not been tested on humans as yet.
Childhood immunisation includes vaccines for :
- Tetanus, polio, hepatitis B, whooping cough and diphtheria during the first 16 months of birth
- Pneumococcal jab at eight weeks, 16 weeks and one year
- Men B vaccine at 8 weeks, 16 weeks and 1 year
- HIB /Men C vaccine at one year
- Measles, mumps and rubella from 1 year to 3 years
Overall the technique seems to be highly effective in reducing the pain of immunisation without compromising on the effect of vaccination. In fact, the results could be much better that regular immunisation