The Importance Of Immunization Against Childhood Diseases

We often hear jingles of radio and television urging parents to immunize their children against childhood killer diseases. Unfortunately, most parents hardly pay attention to the entreaties. Perhaps, most parents are unaware of the immense benefits of immunization especially to children.

Immunization makes people immune to disease by injecting tiny, harmless organism into a person. This is known as inoculation and the medicine used in immunization, is known as Vaccine. Immunization gives people the ability to resist infection temporally or permanently.

What then are childhood diseases that can be changed guarded against by immunization. These include Cholera, poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria, whooping-cough and measles.

The importance of immunization cannot be over-emphasized, because the adverse effects of not giving immunization to our children are very well-know to us. For instance, most people live in congested houses thereby endangering the health of the young ones who are mostly susceptible to infections. The conditions in our locality make immunization a must for our children.