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Local
Reactions
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Management
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Hepatitis
B - Tender at the site of injection, mild
fever, nausea, muscle or joint pain.
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Paracetamol (if required), cool,
wet cloth applied to injection site, increase fluids.
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DTPa
- Mild fever: redness, soreness and swelling at the site of
the injection.
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Paracetamol (if required), cool,
wet cloth applied to injection site, increase fluids.
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Hib
- Swelling, redness and pain at the site of injection, mild
fever.
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Paracetamol (if required), cool,
wet cloth applied to injection site, increase fluids.
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Polio
(OPV) - Headache, muscle pains, mild
diarrhoea.
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Paracetamol (if required),
increase fluids.
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MMR
- Reaction occurs 7-12 days after immunisation. Generally
unwell, low grade fever, mild rash, swollen glands.
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Paracetamol (if required), cool,
wet cloth applied to injection site, increase fluids.
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Meningococcal
C - Pain, redness and swelling at injection
site, fever, irritability, lack of appetite and
headaches.
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Paracetamol (if required), cool,
wet cloth applied to injection site, increase fluids.
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Varicella - Localised pain
redness or swelling, fever, mild rash 10-21 days after
vaccine.
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Cool, wet cloth applied to
injection site.
Paracetamol (if required) if a
delayed reaction occurs. Increase fluids.
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IPV
- Fever, crying, loss of appetite; pain, redness and swelling
at injection site.
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Paracetamol (if required), cool,
wet cloth applied to injection site, increase fluids.
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Pneumococcal - Localised pain
redness or swelling, low grade fever, sleepy or
irritable.
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Paracetamol (if required), cool,
wet cloth applied to injection site, increase fluids.
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