The BCG
Assalamualaikum.. hi again
U knows BCG? BCG is a not-proven-to-be-effective vaccine..is that true? I doubt if anybody out there don’t know about it. Kawan2 medic kat UIA or mane2 U…hello! if u dunno….lagi2 bdak paeds hehe..yang lain pun mesti ingat punya…masa zaman kite kecik2 dulu..masa pakai tudung senget2 lagi…horror je bile dengar BCG….with all the rumours about it….we can imagined how the nurses burned the needles and then korek2 our flesh with it….me myself don no how is it feel because I never had one…in standard six…(I went to a private school and KKM didn’t came to our school for this vaccination programme…and we took granted for not go to the clinic by ourselves…haha)…I’m not so sure about my very first few days of life whether I had it or not.. My mother said that my immunization was complete but she didn’t remember whether in the UK they had this Bacillus Calmette-Guérin-vaccine or not. The problem is, I don’t have any BCG scar at my upper arm as the others. I don’t even mind about this before, but recently my brother that used to have non-Hodgkin lymphoma and received my stem cells last year…was warded again..he had chronic cough but not that worse…and lymphadenitis and the doctors suspect that he had TB….I really hope they are wrong. One more thing I’m going to attach to internal medicine posting next week…There must be tones of TB cases in the ward…so now I’m thinking whether I should take the vaccine or not…but nowadays the Ministry of Health had stopped the BCG vaccination for standard six right? They found out that it is not protective anymore…is it true? Anybody out there who knows about this thing…please tell me…I have to decide whether to take it or not…
From my readings in a few articles…
In gobroomecounty.com, they wrote that the proven effect of BCG is to prevent the worse forms of TB disease in children (22 years old is certainly not children anymore right?) but the ability to prevent TB Infection is uncertain and diminishes in time. Several studies have indicated that BCG does not prevent infection or subsequent development of Pulmonary TB in adolescents or adults
Dr Shelton DC said in TB Quotes: "The serum employed was that concocted by the notorious Calmette, of the B. C. G. vaccine that is said, though falsely, to prevent tuberculosis. This vaccine has left a trail of disaster behind it wherever it has been used. It does not and, of course, cannot protect from tuberculosis. The only prevention of tuberculosis is scrupulous hygiene. Given this and no one need fear the disease. Not even children of tubercular parents, though in constant association with them, will develop tuberculosis, if they are cared for hygienically.
But in the other hand, Dr.Greene in www.drgreene.com said that many excellent large studies have shown BCG to be extremely effective, others only moderately so, and two showed only minimal efficacy… In light of this, BCG is indicated for infants or adults who either live in area where infection rates of tuberculosis exceed 1% per year are at high risk for prolonged exposure to infected adults who are untreated or who are continuously exposed to adults with resistant TB
Hmmm..any opinions?
Okla..selamat menjalani ibadah puasa “Ku mengharapkan Ramadhan kali ini penuh makna…”
