Tuberculosis Vaccine

For Belle's 7 month appointment, last week, she received the TB shot in her right arm :( While I hate to see her in pain I do feel comforted knowing that she will be protected from this terrible disease. Unfortunately in recent months there is a strain of Totally Drug Resistant Tuberculosis floating around India. I guess Belle will be safe if there is every a large epidemic!

Day after the shot- The vaccine itself is intradermal which means that it's given right under the skin instead of in the muscle like all the other shots. 

It's hard to get a picture of her sitting still but this it was it looks like this morning.

A few days after the shot it sort of looked angry red and infected. Of course since the vaccine is a weakened live virus technically it was infected. The instructions for care include ignoring the site. No creams, ointments or covering with bandaids. Pretend that nothing ever happened to prevent too much scarring. I have done just that so far and it seems to be running it's course pretty quickly although it looked gross for a few days. 

All in all she doesn't even notice anything and continues to be on the go all the time. 

Tchau,

Sara