On World Polio Day, Dr. Abhilipsa Acharya, Consultant - Neonatologist & Pediatrician at Manipal Hospital Bhubaneswar, shares ...

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World Polio Day 2024 l Dr. Abhilipsa Acharya l Manipal Hospital Bhubaneswar

so today I am going to discuss something about polio so as all of us know that uh our world polio day is coming which is on 24th of October so this year theme of the world polio day is vaccine works for all so as all of us know that polio can be eradicated with the help of the vaccination as our India is doing the pulse polio program and during the uh pulse polio program all the children below 5 years of age are getting vaccinated with two drops of polio that is called the two drops of polio vaccine is given to all the kids below 5 years of age so uh so polio vaccination is given as a pulse because as a as a result of giving vaccine to a white range of kids below 5 years we believe that we can eradicate polio from our country as well as globally so so I will first like to tell that how it is a dreadful disease so polio is commonly Pootis the disease is called Pootis which is called by the wild polio militis virus so there are three types of polio viruses are there type one type two and type three so all of them cause the Dreadful disease in the children or the Pediatric age group the initial eally how this polio gets uh gets the symptoms the child will develop some flu like symptoms of fever cuff cold followed by some weakness then after one to two weeks of this acute viral illness the child will suffer from weakness the usually body weakness and followed by the child will develop the paralysis and which can be so much Dreadful that the child will unable to swallow a suck un swallow or unable to feed and there will be drooling of saliva from the mouth uh and as the disease progresses the viral symptoms will uh will seize but this residual paralysis will remain in our kids so which will be very Dreadful later on so after that this is a very huge morbidity for our child because the child will get the paralysis which the child previously well child who was walking playing and going to school will develop the paralysis and Then followed by will need a crutch to walk or unable to walk at all or unable to feed at all for his whole life so this is a dreadful complication of the polio uh militis virus infection so to prevent this Dreadful infection to our children all of us should vaccin vaccinate our child to eradicate this polio virus from the the country as well as from the globally so for this reason we are celebrating the world polio day in 24th of October and let's vaccinate all our children as the vaccine works for all thank you

Dr.

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