Is it necessary to get the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine?

In modern life, people's bodies are protected by various vaccines, which greatly reduces the incidence of many diseases or even eliminates them. However, some diseases cannot be prevented through vaccines, but only rely on one's own immunity. Therefore, you can choose according to your needs when injecting the vaccine. For example, is the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine necessary? Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

The MMR vaccine is a must! Vaccination is the most convenient, economical and effective way to prevent and control measles, rubella and mumps.

Measles, rubella, and mumps are all acute respiratory infectious diseases caused by viruses. They are easily spread among children and adolescents. Some children may develop serious complications, which pose a great threat to the health of children and adolescents. Humans are generally susceptible to measles, rubella, and mumps, which are mainly transmitted through air droplets, but can also be transmitted through clothes, food, and toys contaminated with saliva. Secretions containing the virus are expelled from the body through the patient's breathing, coughing, etc. and form viral aerosols that are suspended in the air. Susceptible people can be infected by entering places where patients have stayed without having contact with them. This is especially easy to happen in crowded kindergartens, schools, shopping malls, etc.

Measles may be complicated by pneumonia, other secondary infections of the respiratory tract caused by bacteria or viruses, acute post-measles encephalitis, myocarditis, otitis media, etc. After children are infected with rubella, in addition to fever and rash, they may also develop complications such as rubella encephalitis and myocarditis. Severe cases may result in death, which seriously threatens the physical and mental health of children. Mumps can cause oophoritis, orchitis (one of the causes of infertility), meningitis, myocarditis, and deafness caused by mumps may lead to permanent hearing loss in children.

If a pregnant woman is infected with measles, rubella or mumps virus, the virus will infect the fetus through the placenta, which may cause miscarriage, premature birth, or various congenital damage to the baby such as congenital heart defects, deafness, blindness, intellectual disability, as well as developmental delay, osteitis, thrombocytopenic purpura, hepatosplenomegaly, hemolytic anemia and other congenital non-malformation consequences.