Mothers, injections and poliomyelitis
H.V. Wyatt
Social Science and Medicine 35(6): 795-798
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0277-9536 DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(92)90079-6Document Number: 322338
Injections are very popular in developing countries and it will be very difficult to wean adults from wanting injections for themselves. However, injections may transmit disease agents, cause abscesses and provoke paralytic poliomyelitis. Mothers have often recognized the casual link between injection of their child and subsequent paralysis of that limb, but unnecessary injections still cripple many children each year. Our priority should be to urge mothers to resist unnecessary injections for their sick children. Doctors who might resist prohibition of injections for adults, might accept the small loss of income from not injecting sick babies and children.