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a medical question…

.. Why is it that if you take the same immunization twice in the same year, you can get a bad reaction? For example, i had the Hep. A, and the doctor was about to give me another (without realizing that I already had it a month before) and I told her right before that I already had that, and she acted like I was about to die or something.

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Ame offline Verified User (3 years) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 years, 5 months ago (27 minutes after post)

you know … immunization is like you put a week force of the virus in your body
and it’s so weak that your immune system can defeat it and so your immune sys generate some antibodies so that when you are attacked with the real fatal virus
your body will act against it and eliminate it with the help of normal antibiotics

so if the weak forces increased above the wanted level it can grow and reproduce then it’ll give the same effect as the non attenuated virus

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 years, 5 months ago (2 hours, 2 minutes after post)

The first time you are immunised your body has never seen that particular virus before, and so a weak primary immune response occurs and many ‘memory’ immune cells are created. The second time you are exposed to that particular virus a much stronger immune response occurs. THis may possibly lead to mild inflammation around the injection site or a mild fever caused by the release of immune mediators, but none of these will do you any real harm. Giving the injection twice will not cause you any real harm, afterall the point of immunisation is to protect you if your body does encounter the real virus, which as far as your body is concerned is identical to the attenuated version given during immunisation.

Re: amebaid’s post, attenuated viruses are normally incapable of reproducing, as it is a viruses ability to reproduce which makes them harmful in the first place. Also, your body does not produce antibiotics, and antibiotics are only usefull against bacteria. you probably ment antibodies :-)

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 years, 5 months ago (6 hours, 27 minutes after post)

well thanks for the feedback but

i meant antibiotics as you know most of viruses infection comes with random side infection as any virus goes to body do a great role in destroying the immune system
even the fever [ the first mechanism against foreign bodies ] some how help the viruses that not affected by heat to replicate faster

and about the attenuated viruses .. you know there is some immunodeficiency cases which any type of infection can cause major harm may be if the virus wasn’t attenuated enough or the attenuation process was incomplete so once it enter the body it find perfect physiological for growth and weak army [this off course in case of using the whole virus not just toxins ]
example for that if you remember when Smallpox was epidemic in many countries in the 18th century after some asian doctor tried to find a way to treat smallpox so he gave some patients dried crusts from the lesions of people suffering from smallpox to protect against the disease. While some developed immunity, others developed the disease….
so you don’t want ever to double the quantity of the vaccination it also measured by body weight not random issue like 4 drops per citizen no it’s not like that
so if her doctor thought that it wasn’t right to gave her a second shot then it’s wrong …

cheers ..

P.S I’m not in the medical field just a pharmacist interested in pharmacology so correct any of my information [with references ] :)

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