The flu vaccine is not a live virus hence you cannot get sick from it. Also, when you get the vaccine, massage your arm for awhile immediately after the injection. You won't have a sore arm.
The flu vaccine is not a live virus hence you cannot get sick from it. Also, when you get the vaccine, massage your arm for awhile immediately after the injection. You won't have a sore arm.
My mom got sick every year from the flu vaccine until she quit taking it.
I stand corrected. This is hardly what I would call sick though..............
The flu vaccine can't give you the flu. But you might develop flu-like symptoms — despite getting a flu vaccine — for a variety of reasons, including: Reaction to the vaccine. Some people experience muscle aches and a fever for a day or two after receiving a flu vaccine.
Research is a valuable and readily available thing. Evidence based practice fully supports the flu vaccine. I’m 100% for it, based on research. Got one every year since 1995.
Personal anecdotes mean nothing to me.
Last year I might have agreed with you, but I had flu like symptoms after getting both the shingles shots this year and understand it is rather common to have these side effects from this vaccine. It's a killed virus but some sort of immune system reaction rather than a viral illness I guess. I still plan on getting the flu shot.
My assessment is that every year a vaccine is produced that doesn't reliably target whatever strain of flu is going around, but if you get a shot every year, maybe sooner or later you'll hit the jackpot and get one that works. I haven't had a flu shot yet, haven't had a cold or flu since--I don't know, 1994?
Flu vaccines are either trivalent or quadvalent. They develop them based on the most common strains of flu in the southern hemisphere for our season.
The severe flu illnesses and deaths of healthy younger Americans in recent years has me taking the vaccine every year now. I'm approaching 60. I don't want to be in the ICU or dead because of the flu.
My assessment is that you are a moron if you don't get a flu shot.
Hampered as I am in my reasoning by access to data.
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