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posted by admin on Jun 19

What are the distemper vaccine side effects?

Unfortunately, as with every vaccine in the modern world, there can be side effects. There is no way of knowing whether an individual animal with react to a given vaccine, so if the chances of coming into contact with a life-threatening disease or serious virus are high, a vet will always recommend the vaccine.  On the other hand you could well say that the side effects of the vaccine was to extend the life of your pet.

Although distemper will not normally cause the death of your pet, if they become infected - they can be left with some serious and permanent disabilities when older.

If it’s a toss up between your dog getting either distemper or the vaccine side effects, you would be wise to choose the vaccine. Not only should the vaccine keep your dog safe, it should also protect the local dog population of where you live. The more dogs that contract distemper, the more likely it is to mutate and become more aggressive.

Don’t forget though that although individual vaccines work on only on individual animals, if a high enough percentage of animals are NOT vaccinated (as little as 15% in some diseases) then the disease could evolve to become resistant to some available vaccines.

Some people are saying that ’so-and-so disease is not so common anymore’ so you don’t need to vaccinate for it, but of course the fact is that you don’t see these diseases anymore BECAUSE people vaccinate their pets. It just obviously didn’t occur to these people to think it through.

Take the example of Polio: Do you worry about Polio anymore? No, we were all immunised as youngsters, but if we stopped vaccinating kids these days - you can be sure that it will come back!

If you don’t vaccinate your pet for fear of side effects, then not only is your pet vulnerable to that disease which you didn’t vaccinate it for, but it is also helping the disease to get a foothold in the population due to mutations and become drug resistant making hundreds or thousands of animals vulnerable in the future.

Think of the current problem we have with tuberculosis in humans - so many people did not get or couldn’t afford treatment for it or abused the medicines for it in the past 20/30 years, that there are now strains of the virus that cannnot be treated at all; the same is happening with penecillins.

Always follow the vaccination guidelines given by your vet or veterinary body of your country, and always follow the instructions correctly for any medications or treatments for your pets given to you by your veterinarians - if it doubt ask again.

There are people who swear by ‘natural treatments’ for some diseases, or ‘preventative herbs’, etc, but is it worth the risk? You wouldn’t apply a bandage to an uninjured leg, or use head lice treatment on your feet, so why would you treat a highly contagious and fatal viral infection in your dog with herbs or human medicine? Why would you give your pet one tablet instead of the 2 your vet advised? Why would you give your pet a tablet on an empty stomach when it specified to give with food - as without the digestive juices produced during eating, the tablet will not release its active ingredients and will no doubt pass out of your pet without having done what you had paid for it to do!!!!!

No wonder that it seems like your vet charges you a fortune for treatment - it’s because medicines they prescribe for your pet don’t work if you don’t administer it properly. And if it doesn’t work, you have to go back and they have to prescribe you more of something else or something stronger. Which will cost you even more money!

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