INFANRIX HEXA VACCIN

Infanrix hexa is a vaccine used to protect against six diseases:

• Diphtheria: a serious bacterial infection that mainly affects the airways and sometimes the skin.

The airways become swollen, causing serious breathing problems and sometimes suffocation. The bacteria also release poison. This can cause nerve damage, heart problems, and even death.

• Tetanus: tetanus bacteria enter the body through cuts, scratches, or wounds in the skin. Wounds that are more likely to get tetanus infection are burns, fractures, deep wounds, or wounds with soil, dust, horse manure, or wood splinters. The bacteria release poison. This can cause muscle stiffness, painful muscle spasms, fits, and even death. The muscle spasms can be strong enough to cause bone fractures of the spine.

• Whooping cough (Pertussis): a highly infectious illness that affects the airways. It causes severe coughing that may lead to problems with breathing. The coughing often has a “whooping” sound. The cough may last for one to two months or longer. Whooping cough can also cause ear infections, chest infections (bronchitis) which may last a long time, lung infections (pneumonia), fits, brain damage, and even death.

• Hepatitis B: is caused by the hepatitis B virus. It makes the liver swollen. The virus is found in

body fluids such as in the vagina, blood, semen, or spit (saliva) of infected people.

• Polio: a viral infection. Polio is often only a mild illness. However, sometimes it can be very serious and cause permanent damage or even death. Polio can make the muscles unable to move (paralysis).

This includes the muscles needed for breathing and walking. The arms or legs affected by the disease may be painfully twisted (deformed).

• Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib): can cause brain swelling (inflammation). This can lead to serious problems such as mental slowness (retardation), cerebral palsy, deafness, epilepsy, or partial blindness. It can also cause swelling of the throat. This can cause death by suffocation. Less commonly, the bacteria can also infect the blood, heart, lungs, bones, joints, and tissues of the eyes and mouth.