What are the four vaccines that will protect your parents' lung health this winter?
Oct 20, 2025
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On this day, Hwang Hee-jin, a professor of family medicine at Catholic Kwandong University International St. Mary's Hospital, emphasized through a lecture on the ▲high immunogenic influenza vaccine ▲pneumocococcal vaccine ▲COVID-19 vaccine, and ▲RSV vaccine will protect parents' lung (肺) health in winter.
According to Professor Hwang Hee-jin, the production of influenza antibodies in the elderly is 40 to 80 percent compared to healthy people, so the prevention effect is 31 to 58 percent, so the U.S. recommends a highly immunogenic vaccine. If Korea can afford it economically, it is necessary to actively vaccinate a high-dose vaccine (Efluelda) containing four times more antigen or an immuno-enhanced vaccine (Fluad Quad) containing immuno-enhancing agents.
Since COVID-19 infections are also increasing recently, simultaneous vaccination of COVID-19 vaccines should be considered when vaccinating against the flu.
In addition, if you are an elderly person who does not have a previous vaccination history by checking your pneumococcal vaccination history, you used to recommend one 23-valent vaccine, but recently, it has been changed to recommend the sequential vaccination of the 20-valent vaccine alone or the 15-valent vaccine and the 23-valent vaccine.
RSV virus is higher in the elderly than influenza virus in pneumonia, hospitalization, complications (leukemia), and mortality, but only symptomatic treatment was possible because there was no treatment or preventive vaccine. In December 2024, a preventive vaccine (AlexB) approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety was introduced to allow vaccination for the elderly.
The Spring Conference, attended by more than 800 experts on the elderly, held in-depth discussions on topics that help with continuous and comprehensive medical care, including high blood pressure, new diseases, anticoagulants/antiplate platelets, diabetes, heart failure, walking disorders, senescence, cancer screening, nutritional guidelines, physical symptom disorders, oral care, chronic cough, AI smart care, integrated care support method, region-based patient-centered primary care, long-term care home care, and a roadmap for drug use from elderly patients to elderly patients.
The Korean Association of Clinical Seniors, which was established in 1992, has been leading the development of geriatric medicine through research and academic exchanges for the prevention, treatment, and management of geriatric diseases and has been conducting annual spring and autumn academic conferences and qualification examinations for geriatric medicine professionals to share cases of clinical problems related to the elderly and develop the latest treatment guidelines through proper evaluation since January 2024, to solve the elderly problem in a super-aged society, including close communication and cooperation with senior experts in various fields, In order to consider and solve the social approach, the name of the society has been changed from the Clinical Geriatrics Association to the Clinical Geriatrics Association.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
