Almost everyone knows that it is forbidden to wet mantle and vaccinations. But what happens if you wet the mantle? What is the danger, if you wet the mantle, everyone knows from childhood. But what exactly happens if you wet the mantle, few people know. Why not vaccinate and mantoux? Let's try to figure it out. Let's try to find out where such an “unwritten rule” came from, and how justified this ban is ...
What happens if you wet the mantle?
So, we know that vaccinations cannot be wetted. To begin with, it is difficult to call the mantou vaccine, and rather even mistaken, because the mantoux is not a vaccine, but just a kind of diagnostic injection. Real vaccinations are the introduction into the human body of an insignificant amount of dead (weakened, depressed) or living cells of the causative agent of certain diseases in order to “trigger” the reaction of immunity (antibodies) to this disease.
In medical institutions, it is strictly forbidden to wet the place of vaccination, but no one explains what will happen if the mantle is wet.
Let's talk about DTP vaccinations (vaccination against pertussis, tetanus and diphtheria), which are serious stress for an absolutely healthy body, and even more so for a child’s body. Combining such a vaccination with swimming (especially in running hot water) is undesirable. The fact is that the reaction to such a vaccination is unpredictable, therefore it is recommended to exclude any factors that are capable of at least somehow affecting the activity of the “vaccinated” pathogenic virus cells and it is better to refrain from water procedures for the first day.
Why is it not recommended to wet the mantle?
“Button” refers to a tuberculin test, which is known to us as mantoux (named after the French medical officer Charles Mantoux). This “button” in itself does not cure or insure anything, but only helps doctors diagnose correctly, that is, to identify the absence or presence of an allergic reaction in contact with tuberculin.
What happens if you wet the mantle? Most likely, there will be nothing terrible, because it is forbidden to wet it completely unreasonably. But it is really impossible to grind, smear with green, stick up with a band-aid and treat with hydrogen peroxide. In other words, you can swim, but here is not particularly zealous with friction with a washcloth in the place where the mantle was made.
How much time can not be wet the place where the mantle was made? Given that the size of a button or papule is measured after about two to three days, the optimal time during which it is advisable to “not disturb” is three days.
It should be noted that if a positive reaction to a tuberculin test was recorded, then it gives absolutely no information about the localization and spread of the disease.
Remember that even Dr. House can sometimes make mistakes, so if you have a positive reaction to a tuberculin test, you should not panic. Moreover, if you accidentally wet the manta ray, then it is quite possible that this influenced the “delivery of a disappointing verdict”.
In the end, I would like to remind parents that the manta should be done to the child only after he has been examined by a pediatrician. In addition, it is ideal to do general urine and blood tests. At the same time, the latter, for some reason, is missed by many doctors, although this should be a prerequisite, since the disease in most cases at an early stage is determined by analysis. And not all apparently healthy children, in fact, are such, and this can only be determined through analysis. At the time of vaccination, mantoux, etc. the child must be absolutely healthy.
Remember that if your child is unwell, then it is better to refuse it, because the Mantoux test has several contraindications. For example, it can not be done if the child is sick with epilepsy, common skin diseases, as well as if he has exacerbated a chronic, infectious or somatic disease. Also, they do not make mantle with bronchial asthma and rheumatism, which occurs in acute form.