Rubeola is the most dangerous childhood disease for a pregnancy. Doctors say his effects on the fetus are devastating. The concern is even greater as almost 40% of Romanians refuse to vaccinate against this condition.
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Pregnancy is a special period for any woman, especially because it goes through all kinds of physical and mental transformations. The most delicate is the first quarter, say doctors. In the first three months, the bodies of the fetus are formed and the baby’s body takes shape. This is why the future mother must be very careful, especially to guard from infectious diseases. The most serious for the evolution of pregnancy is rubella. Experts say the effects of this disease are devastating to the fetus. The situation is all the more serious as in Romania the vaccine with the highest refusal rate among the population is precisely ROR, that is the serum that protects us in the face of childhood diseases, including rubella.
From very serious malformations to death
The doctor Carmen Zaboloteanu, the head of the Neonatology Section at Botosani Maternity, explains for the “truth” which are the complications of rubella in a pregnant woman, based including on the experience in everyday practice.
“The diseases of childhood are very important for a pregnant woman. If the mother will make one of these diseases during pregnancy, the complications can be very easy to extremely severe. It also depends on the moment when it comes into contact with the disease. The most dangerous is rubella, especially if it happens in the first three months of pregnancy because then the organs of the future child are formed. The child can have serious complications such as heart malformations, eye malformations, severe mental retardation and can lead to intrauterine death or spontaneous abortion. If the disease occurs, after this three -month interval, the risks are smaller because the child’s organs are already formed, but they are not negligible ”says Carmen Zaboloteanu.
Serious malformations can be avoided by a simple sting
All diseases of childhood that can affect or even compromise a pregnancy can be prevented with a free ROR vaccine in Romania. It is done in particular to children, but they can benefit from it and adults who have not done diseases at an early age. “The anti-rheolic vaccine is caught in the national program together with other vaccine preparations that fix this kind of protection against diseases that over time have produced losses of human lives, short or long-term disabilities.”says Irina Alecu, an epidemiologist in the Botosani Public Health Directorate. The effects of these diseases of childhood, long viewed with lightness by Romanians, can be very serious, doctors say. It is a variety of lottery on the account of its own body. In some cases I pass without sequelae, in other situations they can give devastating complications.
“Rujeola, rubella and mumps are diseases that can give long -term sequelae and can remain with consequences including in adult life. The state of health, the basic, makes the difference between a severe evolution, with the need for medical assistance or an episode of manageable disease at home. Measles, for example, produces a deletion of immunity for a few years. The mumps, in boys, if I do the disease after 13-14 years most of the time it causes sterility. Rubeola, especially in women of active age as an incidence of pregnancy, increases the risk is to cause pregnancy loss but also the risk of malformations in the fetus ”, adds Irina Alecu.
From the experience as a doctor, Carmen Zaboloteanu says that often pregnant women contact the disease from an unvaccinated child: “DIn this reason it is very important for a child to be vaccinated. ”
Romanians, champions at the refusal of vaccination
Although the risks are high, many Romanians refuse vaccination. The peak, the ROR vaccine, including against rubella, has the highest refusal rate among the population. As the statistics show, almost 40% of Romanians refused to vaccinate children with ROR. And this is felt, in Romania being registered in the last seven years two measles epidemics.
“There are people who refuse any kind of vaccine or method of screening”says neonatologist Carmen Zaboloteanu. Whether it is conspiracy theories, religious reasons or simply distrust in vaccine products, it is certain that some eradicated diseases are likely to return, in the absence of immunization.
“There were diseases under control, but they return precisely because we have this global tendency to be reluctant to the vaccine. It is actually the price of success for vaccines. They were effective, made these serious diseases for which they were designed to be so present in the population and then the new generations that are at this moment, some even refuse to vaccinate, they do because they have not seen How dramatic the disease can be. If we do not keep the rate of vaccine coverage we will return and see children again with seizures and cerebral sequelae seizures, we will see again the sequelae for lifetime, sterility from mumps “, says epidemiologist Irina Alecu.
