Diphtheria Tetanus Polio (DTP) Vaccine

Diphtheria Tetanus Polio (DTP) Vaccine

Diphtheria Tetanus Polio (DTP) vaccine is administered in our travel clinic at Maidstone. You need to just make a booking online and come to the clinic at the scheduled time. Other travel and non-travel vaccines and antimalarials are also part of our repertoire.

Booking a travel clinic appointment in Maidstone

Diphtheria Tetanus Polio (DTP) vaccine

The vaccine against Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Polio is a combination vaccine. Immunity granted by the vaccine does diminish with time and hence booster doses of the vaccine may be required at intervals. In the UK, separate vaccinations against the above mentioned diseases are unavailable.

What is diphtheria?

Diphtheria is an ailment caused by Corynebacterium bacteria.Toxin (poison) produced by the bacteria can cause illness in humans. This is a communicable disease and if an infected person sneezes or coughs, respiratory droplets carry the bacteria from person to person. Transmission of the disease is also possible if one touches a surface contaminated with infected respiratory secretions or infected skin lesions (ulcers or sores), clothing, or bed linens. This ailment is rare in UK but vaccination is necessary before leaving shores of UK as it is prevalent in regions of Africa,Central and South East Asia, South America, Eastern Europe and Russia.

 

What is Tetanus?

Tetanus is a dangerous life threatening ailment caused by soil-based bacteria that accesses the body through a cut or wound.

The bacterium can enter the body via:

  • cuts and grazes, those caused by contaminated or rusty objects in particular
  • Burns
  • from bites of certain animals (such as bites from farm animals)
  • injecting contaminated drugs
  • medical procedures
  • unsterilized injections
  • Procedures like body piercing and tattooing

    Tetanus is prevalent worldwide. Bacteria is capable of surviving outside the body for an extended period of time and are generally found in soil, animal excrement such as that of horses and cows, and on the surfaces of rusty objects such as nails, barbed wireand needles.

    What is Polio?

    Polio is an ailment caused by poliovirus. Poliovirus can infect the spinal cord resulting in paralysis. In severe cases polio can prove to be fatal. Fatality rate is 2% to 5% in children and goes up to 15% to 30% among adolescents and adults. Polio is an infectious disease. Poliovirus resides in the intestine and throat of the host. It can spread through:

    • Droplets from the cough or sneezes of an infected person.
    • Contact with the faeces of an infected individual.

    Faeces from an infected individual can contaminate food and drink in places where standard of sanitation and hygiene is low. This can spread the virus.

    Diphtheria Tetanus Polio (DTP) vaccine in Maidstone

    If you require the Diphtheria Tetanus Polio (DTP) vaccine for your forthcoming travel, you can book an appointment online with our travel vaccination clinic in Maidstone and avoid the difficulty of waiting in the queue.

    Our travel clinic in Maidstone providesanall-inclusive range of travel vaccinations and antimalarials. Booking an appointment scheduled 6-8 weeks prior to the travel is recommended to ensure that the traveller can get allrequired vaccinations on time.

Booking a travel clinic appointment in Maidstone

Maidstone Travel Clinic,
97 Heath Road, Coxheath ME17 4EH

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