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Any PG ladies NOT getting H1N1 vaccine?
Just wondering if I am alone here. I have stressed so much over whether to get this or not and my husband, mom and best friend who is also PG and not getting it are the three people telling me please don't get this vaccine. I don't know if I'm making the right choice and I'm still scared but I was wondering if any other PG ladies aren't getting it. Thanks!
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Re: Any PG ladies NOT getting H1N1 vaccine?
I'm pretty sure I'm not getting it. Every time I've gotten a flu shot in the past, I get a full blown, horrible flu. I don't want to risk it this year.
But, I should add -
- There are only three of us in my office.
- I don't spend a lot of time working with children
- I don't work in the health field
this exactly.
I'm definitely not getting it. I'm just taking lots of extra vitamin c, extra vitamin d and making sure I wash my hands, clean my shopping cart, eating lots of fruits and veggies, etc.
Maybe check this out and see if any of the info helps:
https://www.vaclib.org/intro/present/overview.htm#2
this
Steal my kids picture or pretend they are yours, I will find where you live and ship all of their dirty diapers to your doorstep. Promise.
I refuse to get it. The vaccine was rushed through production and there have been no studies of the longterm effect on a fetus. Secondly, the vaccine is not recommended for infants under 6 months, so I'm confused on why the manufacturers and stakeholders want to give the vaccine to unborn children. And lastly, the people who are pushing for the vaccine are the pharmaceutical companies and their stakeholders.
The flu kills around 20,000 people per year and the swine flu has not even come close to that number yet....so I'm not buying the whole epidemic thing.
Dany - my condolences.
Anyway, my BIL, being a doctor, never pushes medications on his patients and never recommends them to us when we go to him for illnesses. As soon as he heard we were pregnant, he pushed for both the seasonal and H1N1 vaccines, and he pushed hard. It made me second guess my original decision to not have any shots at all. I need to do more research.
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I'm apologizing in advance for the length of this response. I haven't commented about this before, but it's something I think is worth saying, and I certainly don't mean to offend anyone with my thoughts or ideas.
I've had both shots with no complications. Here's how I look at it: There are a lot of things you don't do now that you may have done before you were pregnant because we know it could harm the baby (smoking, drinking, etc.). And there are a lot of other things you do as a pregnant woman that you may not have done before because it helps the baby (take prenatal vitamins, avoid areas with large crowds and lots of germs, see your OB regularly, etc). I put both flu shots in the latter category. Just because you didn't get it before you were pregnant, doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't get it now. There is a scientifically valid reason that the CDC (not big pharma) is recommending the H1N1 shot for pregnant women: because we are at higher risk than others of getting the virus due to a compromised immune system and, as a result we have a higher risk of complications with the illness or our pregnancy. Another benefit is that you pass immunity along to your baby for the first 6 months of their life until they can get a flu shot. There is a risk benefit ratio to consider here, as well. We have no reason to think that the risk of this shot is more dangerous than the risk of getting the flu and having pregnancy-related complications as a result. As of the end of August, 28 pregnant women died from the H1N1 virus. I'm curious to see what the numbers look like after a full-fledged flu season.
I work at a large research institution and review research protocols for a living. While there isn't long-term data on this particular H1N1 flu shot, there is long-term data on the seasonal flu shot's safety and efficacy. The H1N1 shot is almost exactly the same as the seasonal shot, except that it contains this particular strain of the flu virus. I think the scandal from the 1970's when many recipients of the swine flu shot developed Guillain-Barre Syndrome has scared a lot of folks. Perhaps I'm naive to think that a public health agency (in this case, the CDC, DHHS, and WHO) have the public's best interest at heart, but I choose to believe that pregnant women are high risk and need the vaccine for a reason based on their expertise. I also trust my doctor to give me sound medical advice, and his office recommends both flu shots for pregnant women.
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Dont base it on what your mom and friend are doing. Do your own research.
I was initially against it becaue there wasn't enough info. But, IMO, there now is enough info.
If you are ok getting the flu shot, it really makes no sense to not get the H1N1 since they are "tested" the same amount and made the same way.
Its a personal decision, but make sure you do your rearch.