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Asked by CK16 to Anne, Florence, Mark, Neil, Sinead on 8 Nov 2015.
Question: should everyone get a injection?
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Neil Day answered on 8 Nov 2015:
I guess my answer to this would be that you shouldn’t get an injection unless you truly need one. If you are having an anaphylactic shock which requires adreline to resolve or are diabetic and need to regulate your insulin levels then the only way to administer these medicines is with an injection, which gets the medicine into the bloodstream as quick as possible.
It is alway more convenient for the patient if a medicine can be taken orally (ie by mouth). This involves less medical supervision, allows more freedom for the patient and most importantly; it won’t hurt.
A lot of modern day medicines are large molecules such as proteins and it is very hard for today’s technology to find a way to administer them orally, so they do need to be administered by injection. Maybe pharmaceutical technology will allow a way for oral administration of these type of medicines into the future.
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Sinead Balgobin answered on 11 Nov 2015:
Like Neil says, you should only get an injection if you need one. When it comes to vaccination, where you get an injection to help your body build an immunity to a disease so it knows how to fight it, like with measles, then I think everyone who can should get one. Some people are allergic to vaccines, or can’t have them because they won’t work in their body or their body isn’t strong enough to build the immunity. We are able to cure many diseases already through vaccination, and we should keep going to make sure we can get rid of them for good, like with smallpox (which has been cured in many countries). If we don’t vaccinate against dangerous diseases then some people who are not as strong, like small children who don’t have very good immune systems, will catch them and it could be deadly.
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