The news is rampant with this years flu epidemic. I've always shied away from getting any extra/what I consider unnecessary vaccines due to information I have read about their contents and side effects. Just wanting to reassure myself a bit and hear from others who also bypass flu vaccines.
Re: Anyone else not getting a flu shot?
No flu shot here!
The last time I got one was nearly 20 years ago and I got sicker than I'd ever been that year. They don't have a way to determine which strains is circulating to protect against when the vax is created, so it's only an "educated" guess.
It even says on the package: There have been no controlled trials adequately demonstrating a decrease in influenza disease after vaccination with FLULAVAL
I eat well and consume things known to boost the immune system (garlic, cayenne, echinacea, honey, elderberries, etc) and haven't gotten the flu... ever....
Great blog article! Thanks for sharing!
SAHM to 4 kiddos... K (5/05), N (4/09), C (11/10) and Baby A 1/13/14
My daughter just tested positive for Influenza A...it's basically been a stinker of a cold for the last two weeks with a returning fever and one case of vomiting. I have it now too...and wonder how many times having a "bad cold" really was flu.
I did vaccinate the baby (she seems to have a milder case of the sniffles), and probably will again next year until she is two. Otherwise, we tend to skip the flu shots in our family too.
You do realize that people actually die from the flu, right? Sometimes "dealing with the flu" means planning a funeral for your child.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/49465633/ns/health-cold_and_flu/t/teens-death-shows-how-flu-can-kill-flash/
Austin Booth didn?t feel great, but well enough to play in a high school varsity basketball game and even made it to school the next day. When he started coughing up blood, his mother knew to take him to the emergency room.
It was too late. Six days later, Austin, who had been perfectly healthy, had died from something as mundane as the flu.
?He went from being a healthy, vibrant 17-year-old boy to being gone in less than a week,? his mother, Regina Booth, said in a telephone interview.
Austin?s case is not unusual, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday. In fact, 43 percent American children who died from flu were perfectly healthy beforehand, CDC researchers found. While conditions such as cerebral palsy and asthma can make flu especially dangerous for a child, there?s no way to tell which children will become seriously ill or even die from seasonal flu, the researchers warn.
So how many years did your chiropractor study epidemiology? Or immunology? Or actual medicine?
I love posts like this. It's like Darwinism at work.
Updated September 2012.