Vaccine reaction

Alternative names:

vaccine injury

Symptoms:

NORMAL REACTION TO DPT IMMUNIZATION

• mild fever
• irritability
• localized tenderness and swelling at site of injection

ABNORMAL REACTION TO DPT IMMUNIZATION

• unrelieved crying
• high-pitched cry
• unusual shock-like syndrome
• unresponsiveness
• hypotonia
• marked increase in sleeping time
• persistent high fever (104 degrees Fahrenheit or greater)
• seizure or convulsion

REACTION TO MMR

Measles:

• fever up to 103 degrees about seven-10 days after vaccine administration
• measles rash (milder than natural measles) (low incidence)

Rubella

• transient joint pains (arthralgia)

REACTION TO POLIO VACCINES

LIVE (OPV)
• Paralytic polio (non-immunodeficient individual) within 30 days
• Paralytic polio (immunocompromised individual) within six months

INACTIVATED (IPV)
• Anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock

ABNORMAL REACTION TO HBV (hepatitis B vaccine)

• anaphylactic shock (plasma-derived version)

Signs and tests:

Testing is usually unnecessary.