Immunisation during pregnancy
Question: Does immunisation during pregnancy prove helpful?
Immunisation and innoculation belong to childhood. Vaccinations against virus should not be taken during pregnancy. These can be positively harmful. They may act contrary to intention. The child may contract a disease instead of gaining immunity to it and may be born dead.
Only tetanus toxoid injections are given during pregnancy to safeguard mother and child. If the mother herself has been properly immunised during her childhood, just one shot of tetanus toxoid in the sixth or seventh month of pregnancy is sufficient. If there is some doubt about immunisation received by the mother in her childhood, two injections are given—one in the fifth month, the other in the seventh month.
It is not necessary to be vaccinated for polio, typhoid and cholera. On the contrary it may be actually harmful.
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