Flu Shot Not Working

[Disney Doll]

I generally do not get the flu shot for this reason.

Because usually the strains of flu that are most predominant in any given flu season are not the ones contained in the vaccine.

I also have no risk factors, such as age, immunosuppression etc.

If I get the flu, I am not going to die from it. I will feel lousy and miserable, but I will survive.

 

[lemondog]

I also have no risk factors, such as age, immunosuppression etc.

If I get the flu, I am not going to die from it. I will feel lousy and miserable, but I will survive.

Wow, please be careful what you assume! My very healthy, 35-yo friend died from the flu several years ago. She had no risk factors, no health problems, etc. But she still died, leaving behind 2 small children. It is rare but it CAN happen to anyone, so please don't refrain from getting the flu shot just because you think you are somehow exempt from complications.

 

[EthansMom]

Of course, the flu vaccine doesn't inocculate against most of the really bad flus that go around each year. That's because those particular strains of flu that are inocculated against end up NOT going around because people don't spread it because they don't get it because they got innoculated! That makes room for other strains of flu to be the ones that run through the population like mad.

DS's grade school has had several illnesses going through it lately (flu/stomach bug/headache & fever). Luckily, DS only got a feverish stomach ache thing this round and no one else in the family got ill.

We all get the flu shot every year.

 

[Kath2003]

According to the British Medical Journal (2006), there's still no evidence that the flu shot has any effect on flu contagion rates.

So, no, I won't be getting one. I have had the flu, and it was horrible - but that's life. I'm not a vulnerable group so having it, whilst horrible, isn't a major problem.

 

[rparmfamily]

No flu shot here. No flu either. Can't really say winter isn't over yet...we don't really have "winter", it's 80 out still.

 

[rparmfamily]

I looked at that map and apparently Hawaii has it widespread. Didn't know that, doesn't seem that way. But most of the kids are vaccinated here from it, they give it out in the schools.

 

[CanadianPaco]

Even if someone was to get the flu after the shot, I imagine it wouldn't be as bad. I know personally with my asthma and respiratory problems that I'm much better off getting the shot than just risking getting the full on flu.

The virus is no a live-virus in the vaccine so there is NO WAY of getting the flu from the vaccination.

 

[1rockinmamato2]

The virus is no a live-virus in the vaccine so there is NO WAY of getting the flu from the vaccination.

I think that poster meant getting the flu after the shot, not from the shot.

 

[Christine]

The virus is no a live-virus in the vaccine so there is NO WAY of getting the flu from the vaccination.

I don't think that poster meant that they caught the flu *from* the shot, just that if they contracted the flu after receiving the shot, it is a milder case.

 

[crz4mm2]

I generally do not get the flu shot for this reason.

Because usually the strains of flu that are most predominant in any given flu season are not the ones contained in the vaccine.

I also have no risk factors, such as age, immunosuppression etc.

If I get the flu, I am not going to die from it. I will feel lousy and miserable, but I will survive.

I feel the same as you.
At least I HOPE.