flu vaccine

[Cherie762]

tis the season once again and theres contraversy about everthing including flu vaccine.
When I worked in the hospital even the nurses(although they advocated it for patients) personally where divided sp Im wondering who believes in them and who doesnt,Gonna do a poll

[dominosarah]

I get it every year.  It lessens the severity of anything i get it seems.  Also they recommend it for the family who have people in the nursing homes and i have my mother there so i do it to help protect her also.

[Agiesmom]

I haven't received it in years--the one time I did, I was the sickest I have ever been afterwards.  That said, I just heard Dr. Dean Edell say yesterday on the radio that he's heard that argument and it's not true--it's a fluke when you get sick after a flu shot and you can't get the same flu virus twice.  He went on to say that many people actually die every year from the flu.  Last year an 11 yo girl in our area died from it.  And my baby and I both had Influenza B last year (swabbed for the diagnosis).  So, I think I'll get the the kids and myself vaccinated against it this year.

[margypops]

I used to have the flu shot then one year I was really sick afterwards,so I put it down to the flu shot and have been procrastinating ever since , I thought I may try again this year, perhaps I will see whether our other friends here at MH are going to get it and be lead by that.