Lychees are abundant in summer, and a reader from Bac Giang, Ngoc Ngan, asks if eating half a kilogram daily and storing them dried for gradual consumption can help prevent cancer.
Does the pneumococcal vaccine help avoid lung cancer, beyond preventing pneumonia? My mother is 65 years old, which type should she get? (Tran Thi Na, TP HCM)
Personalized cancer vaccines using mRNA technology are showing lasting efficacy in melanoma and promising early signs for pancreatic and brain cancers.
My 5-month-old child has hand, foot, and mouth disease, drools, and is reluctant to eat. Why does a child with this illness drool so much? (Phuong Thao, 38, Hanoi)
After two people in her neighborhood died from dengue fever, 35-year-old Ngoc took her entire family for vaccination and cleaned her home to reduce mosquito breeding grounds.
Phuong Anh, 23, from Hai Phong, describes being scratched on the chest by her pet cat, resulting in minor bleeding. She asks if it is too late to get a rabies vaccine, as the cat disappeared on the seventh day and could not be monitored.
My boyfriend plans to get the HPV vaccine, but his mother is preventing him, fearing it causes infertility. Is this true? (Nguyen Thi Uoc, 24, Dong Nai)
Taking her 8-year-old daughter for vaccination at the start of summer, Ms. Khanh, 36, in Binh Dong ward, Ho Chi Minh City, was surprised when a doctor informed her that her child was missing many important vaccine doses.
In addition to high fever, severe headache, and skin hemorrhages, parents should note signs such as abdominal pain, nausea, lethargy, and unusual bleeding, to take children to the hospital promptly.
Nguyen Thi Tuyet, 40, from Ninh Binh, asks if receiving the HPV vaccine will accelerate recovery, having recently been diagnosed with uterine fibroids and undergoing treatment.
A 3-year-old child developed blisters on their hands and feet in recent days; is this a symptom of hand, foot, and mouth disease? (Ngoc Anh, 26, Ho Chi Minh City)
Many people, assuming their household cats and dogs are safe, opt to confine their pets for observation after a bite. Only when the animal goes missing do they worry and seek rabies vaccination.
Flu, pneumococcal, and shingles vaccines have been noted in some studies to be associated with a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer's in older adults.
