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Flu vaccine urged for infants
Filed under: Babies, Toddlers Preschoolers, Health & Safety: Babies
This year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control is recommending that kids as young as six months receive the influenza vaccine. There are plenty of doses of the vaccine available -- 143 million -- so the additional kids do not represent a problem. Dr. Julie Gerberding of the CDC says that more kids vaccinated means fewer kids that will die, not to mention fewer "headaches with cranky children."
"It's a fact," Gerberding noted, "that the influenza vaccine saves lives by not only helping to prevent flu but also by preventing the serious complications that sometimes result from infection with influenza." The CDC is confident that the vaccine this year will "be on target", according to Dr. Daniel Jernigan, deputy director of the influenza division. Despite a less-than-ideal vaccine last year, there have been good matches sixteen of the last twenty years.
We'll likely get our kids vaccinated, including the baby if our pediatrician recommends it. Will you do the same?
"It's a fact," Gerberding noted, "that the influenza vaccine saves lives by not only helping to prevent flu but also by preventing the serious complications that sometimes result from infection with influenza." The CDC is confident that the vaccine this year will "be on target", according to Dr. Daniel Jernigan, deputy director of the influenza division. Despite a less-than-ideal vaccine last year, there have been good matches sixteen of the last twenty years.
We'll likely get our kids vaccinated, including the baby if our pediatrician recommends it. Will you do the same?
| Yes, all of them | |
|---|---|
| Just the older ones -- six months is too young | |
| No, the cure is worse than the disease |
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9-25-2008 @ 6:29PM
Beth SG said...They are also now encouraging pregnant woman to get a flu shot during the 3rd trimester (I've heard both "third trimester" and "final month") to protect the baby, especially if it will be born during flu season.
I'm due around Thanksgiving, and plan to ask my OB about this at my appointment next week.
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9-26-2008 @ 1:14AM
Michele W said...My son has gotten one every year . as soon as he was old enough they began giving him them. He missed last year though because he was sick and they didnt want to give it to him. He also has asthma so he is one of the first one to get it at his pediatricians office. It is confusing though about the whole shot thing because the doctors say it is to protect you but then you hear of the autisim and other bad stuff and it makes you wonder sometimes if you are doing the right thing. Very tough choices sometimes.
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