flu shot help

heatherfaith · November 2008

I dont know if I should get itor ds or not. he usuallly gets side effects fronfrom his vaxfax.

TheBrowns · November 2008

We aren't doing the flu shot. I am not completely comfortable with the vax and he is not around a lot of other kids. Maybe when he goes to preschool he will get it.

jessicaclare · November 2008

DD, DH and I will all get it. When I was in high school I had the flu so badly I nearly had to be hospitalized. Its a hard thing to forget.

howleyshell · November 2008

Have you ever had the flu?

Not a stomach virus but true influenza (it's a respiratory illness).

Check out the info on the flu on the CDC's website.

I've had it and seriously it's the closest I've ever felt to dying. I couldn't even get myself out of bed to pee.

After the fever finally broke (took about a week and I'd lost almost 8 lbs due to sheer lack of strength and motivation to cook myself food or eat) it took another 3 weeks to feel even remotely like myself again. The fatigue stayed long after the fever past.

I would not miss a chance to help my children avoid that experience.

Infants and children are considered high risk. Many small children are hospitalized with the flu every year in our country. It doesn't matter if your kid's in daycare or not. If you go to the grocery store and touch a cart that someone with the flu has touched you can easily bring it home to your whole family. Granted - the more people you and DC are around, the greater the chances but.... if either you or DH work outside of the home and don't get vaccinated it's just like having your DC being exposed to all the people that you and DH are exposed to.

You can not get the flu from the shot. Physically impossible.

We get the thimerisol free version just to be safe.

I'm a huge proponent of the flu shot. I think most people who've actually experience the flu are.

GL with your decisions.

abpdjs · November 2008

ds got the flu shot. we had the thermisol kind. he is fine.....no side effects.

MrsDR1015 · November 2008

We are getting DD this vax for a couple of reasons:

1. We currently live in FL, where it might not be necessary for the weather conditions, but will be moving to PA in the near future, and the sudden climate change, I'm sure, is going to wreak havoc with her little immune system.

2. While she is not in daycare here in FL, when we get to PA one of the first things we will be doing is enrolling her in daycare so that DH and I can both work full time, since we are losing our support network with the move. I can't imagine sending her to daycare for the first time (she's been one day in her entire life and, even then, it was only a half day) without it.

She's already had her first dose and we will be going back to her ped on Monday for the booster dose.

MrsSayre3.20.04 · November 2008

Thank you for the reminder! I just scheduled DD's shot. We didn't do one last year, but she's moving into the walkers room at daycare this winter which will put her at a higher risk. I haven't gotten one in years, but with DD in daycare, we are all getting a flu shot this year!

121005bride · November 2008

Educate yourself with the studies out there even from the CDC. The flu shot is NOT effective in those under 2 even if you were considering it for your DC. Why inject extra crap if it's been proven not to work at that age?

MrsSayre3.20.04 · November 2008

121005bride:
Educate yourself with the studies out there even from the CDC.? The flu shot is NOT effective in those under 2 even if you were considering it for your DC.? Why inject extra crap if it's been proven not to work at that age?

Can you find a source for this? I searched the CDC website and couldn't find that info. According to the CDC, number 1 on their list of who should get vaccinated is "Children aged 6 months up to their 19th birthday."?

Edited to add link:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm?

jessicaclare · November 2008

MrsSayre3.20.04:

121005bride:
Educate yourself with the studies out there even from the CDC. The flu shot is NOT effective in those under 2 even if you were considering it for your DC. Why inject extra crap if it's been proven not to work at that age?

Can you find a source for this? I searched the CDC website and couldn't find that info. According to the CDC, number 1 on their list of who should get vaccinated is "Children aged 6 months up to their 19th birthday."

Edited to add link:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm

Ditto. I'd like a source.

121005bride · November 2008

This is not medical advice. I've giving links so you can read things yourself instead of listening to opinions from everyone. Many sites do recommend it but I'm not even getting into that debate. Every doctor says something different with the flu shot- mine did not recommend it but I'm sure others did. This flu season is predicted to be really bad so who knows what the right answer is.

https://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/162/10/943

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=16437500&ordinalpos=4&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum The above link is from pubmed.gov a service of the NIH and the National Library of Medicine. It has the Cochrane review study and it is quoted below in a government reputable database. https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/hotnews/61h25903467770.html?cntwelcome=1 "The Cochrane review comprised 51 studies of influenza vaccines ? including 17 papers translated from Russian for the first time ? involving more than 250,000 healthy youngsters under age 16.

Yet only a fraction of these studies focused on children younger than 2. Two efficacy studies involving about 1,000 toddlers indicate that flu shots containing inactivated virus ? the only vaccine approved for this age group ? are no more effective at preventing the flu than placebo"

jlw2505 · November 2008

We all got ours, my 8 month old just had her 2nd shot yesterday actually. I personally think that everyone should get it but each his own. The effects from the flu can be way worse than the shot. People die from the flu. There was just a story in my local paper last week about a firefighter who died from the flu last winter.

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