Flu Jab

[Olaf]

This is a link to an article about the flu season this year. It looks as if it's going to be bad.

ajc.com

 

[Mskanga]

I don't know how it is in Europe , but here in the US , a child getting a flu shot for the first time has to get two shots the first time , then from that point on is one shot. I don't know at what age they stop that though.
My children have been getting the flu shot since they were both 3 years old, my oldest is borderline ashmatic ( sp ? ) and gets bronchitis very easily, she's almost 11 now. My youngest is almost 7 and the doctor started it as prevention , given the family history and she also got bronchitis easily.
If they get sick, they get the sniffles for 24-48 hours, usually mild.
I got it this year for the first time in my life because I work in a school , I don't know how it will work for me.
oh yeah, and I had to laugh at the word "jab" , I did not know what that was, LOL.

 

[Beth__WDW23/6/02]

I'm worried as my daughter has had the ful already she was in bed for 1 week and hasnt been herself since she is 4.
Ive also had it, but today i feel dreadful, sore throat, cough etc, this will be my 2nd time...

We dont have asthma? but i wondered if my dr would give my little girl a flu jab, just to cover her but ive never heard of it before?, alot of children in my dd's school are off ill, they all are bad with colds, or the flu.

Should i be concerned?
The worrying thing is, the signs of this deadly flu are just the same as normal flu so how can you tell?
I'm such a worrier...

 

[Mrs Dazzle]

Beth - so sorry to hear you and Chelsea have been bad with the dreaded lurgy. We've not had flu, thank God, but since we got back from Florida at the beginning of November, one of us has had a really bad cold, it's literally going around in circles.

Don't worry too much about Chelsea. She's probably just going through a "picking up everything" phase - has she started school/pre-school yet? When Katie was 2.5 and started nursery school, for about 6 months she had a cold every other week. In the end I took her to the doctors because I thought there must be something wrong, or that she needed vitamins. Of course by the time I'd got an appointment she was well and the doctor said he'd never seen such a healthy child (thank goodness), but it was common for children who start school/nursery to pick up every bug - but if you look on the bright side, when a lot of her friends will be going down with bugs, Chelsea will probably be as right as rain - that's exactly what happened when Katie started school and even now (touching wood) - no, I'm not going to say it

I had my flu jab couple of weeks ago and again asked whether Katie should have it (we are both mild-asthmatics). I phoned again this week and the same response: they still do not want to vaccinate fit, healthy children. Dr Hilary Doo-Dah was on GMTV this morning saying the same thing. In the papers, even though in my opinion they are scaremongering with all the stories, they have said that in most cases of infant flu deaths there has been a known (or unknown) underlying medical condition.

It's still a personal choice - to vaccinate or not. I've worried myself sick as to whether to get Katie done or not - do I really want to put her through the trauma of 2 injections (and get some sort of reaction, she hates needles), but what are the consequences if I don't. All I can do is go on medical advice which is still don't worry and no flu jabs

 

[Beth__WDW23/6/02]

Thanx for your reply Mrs Dazzle

She is full of a cold again at the moment, shes hardly been at school the past few weeks She is at school, and shes had everything going, sick bugs, colds, she had the flu couldnt move for days!!

I hate reading in the papers whats happened and whos died next it is scary!

I'm going to put her on vitamins, just to build her up and see how she goes, she has seen the dr and he's given her some medicine, so hopefully she should be ok in days its the worrying i hate

I suppose its true why vaccinate healthy children, etc...

Thanx