Kids, Adults Should Get Flu Vaccine, American Lung Association Urges

Thank you. My roommate had it last year and basically locked herself in her room for a week and just drank tea and orange juice the entire time. She suffered, but no more than getting a normal flu and I'm sorry, I've survived the flu every winter since I was a child. I'd prefer to take my chances with the disease than let some half-trained PA shove a needle in my arm.

Funny that it was "no big deal" to you Der but for my 2 year old with Asthma, it was a whole different scenerio. My 2 year old went down for a nap "normal" and woke with a fever of 105. He was lifeless. After rushing him to his pediatrician, he was diagnosed with H1N1. He had to be seen by his doctor EVERY DAY at least once per day for 3 weeks. They did as much as possible to keep him home with us and out of the hospitals because too many people were going into the hospital and ending up with secondary infections that KILLED them. He was EXTREMELY sick. He lost almost 10 pounds for lack of eating. I had to literallly POUR fluids down his throat and massage his throat to get him to swallow them. So, feel blessed that it was NO BIG DEAL to you. I will be 1st in line to get his vaccine this year! I will also be vaccinating myself as I am PREGNANT and a firm believer that vaccines DO NOT cause autism. In fact, 2 close family members are on the vaccine causes autism kick and went through all sorts of hoops to forgo vaccinating their children. FUNNY HOW out of 3 of them, one is AUTISTIC. Funny also how that out of all my cousins children (there are 14 of them) all were vaccinated and NONE have any autistic tendencies. Oh, and GINGER, look up the rate of miscarriage in pregnancy on any normal circumstances. And I would like to see your PROOF that thermisol can cause Autism. Back up your statements. While you are at it, take a look at how many pregnant woman the H1N1 virus did kill...Oh and take a look at your numbers again...There may have been 178 reports of miscarriages after taking the vaccine. According to the CDC and American Medical Association, the are 6 MILLION pregnancies per year in the US. 2 MILLION end in miscarriage. There is a VERY STRONG possibility that these miscarriages were NORMAL in statistic. There is NO PROOF that vaccines caused these miscarriages. It is actually a VERY SMALL number compared to the number of pregnant women vaccinated. DO YOUR RESEARCH before you go on here spewing "facts"...

The dlu shot gets you sick. Everyone I know gets sick after this flu shot. Instead, take EX-LAX.....you'll crap it all out in no time. (&you'll be less sick with flu) We kid you not....ex lax works.

The H1N1 last year was no big deal? Tell that to the two out of my three instructors who didn't get the vaccine and DID come down with influenza. One was hospitalized. The other was bedridden for five days.

I was told by the instructor who was later hospitalized that I shouldn't worry about H1N1 because of my age and because influenza was no big deal. I got vaccinated as soon as I was eligible anyways, about four weeks before she was hospitalized. I didn't contract influenza last year. I KNOW how bad influenza can be because I've been through it. I've been hospitalized once. On other occasions, I've been confined to bed (except for time to go pee) for up to 14 days, no sitting up, no reading, no watching tv, just laying there because I was too weak and too ill to do anything else. "No big deal, huh?" Sorry, but 5 days of a 105-degree plus fever IS a big deal. I'll keep getting the vaccinations, thank you very much.

Very interested to know where those reports are Ginger, especially since there was such an emphasis on distributed shots to pregnant women first and foremost last year?

I often wonder about these vehement posters about how terrible it was for their family. Let me state clearly that I am AGAINST mandatory vaccinations, which is where all these "advisory boards" and vaccine manufacturers are advocating again. We should have a fundamental right to CHOOSE when and what we want to have put into our own bodies.

I work for a health care company that pushed a mandatory vaccination last year. Many of the employees were VERY upset and dissatisfied about this PR policy (We have 100% compliance with vaccination - you can come here, it will be safe). I have chronic asthma, and am also allergic to the purified egg protein in these vaccinations. I used to try to have the shot years ago, and would become violently ill and go immediately into life threatening bronchitis from it. H/C employees forced to go along with vaccinations or it the road is not appropriate either.

Good handwashing, hygiene, and appropriate use of masks takes care of this. As a matter of fact what these companies don't tell you is that you are MORE at risk at the grocery store or in going to the Drs office or ER due to the OTHER people who don't even bother to cover their mouths when they cough. When the public was told to do good handwashing and use hand gels, guess what? Our medical business dropped precipitiously. No one was getting sick.

Take a lesson here. Don't need the vaccination. Its a scam. Do yourselves a favor and do good handwashing, cover your mouths when you cough, wash your hands, and use a hand gel if you're out. Masks are easy to get. If you're sick, WEAR ONE. If your kids are sick, train them to do the same. We can stop the spread of the flu, any virus, or cold by doing just these things.

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I think you exaggerate a bit. The shot does help to deter getting the flu. My office has over 500 empoyees and almost everyone gets the shot. Why not? It's free. No one has been known to get the flu afterward. The ingredients have no living items capable of causing illness. A few times I have actually felt it working, warding off any disease, I would like to take all your friends, their records and study their lifestyle and see why they ALL got the flu after getting the shot.
This is all a foolish superstition. To not get the shot shows you are an irresponsible, selfish person. If you have a CVS in your neighborhood, they are offering a number of different plans so you get the shot for free. This old wives tale of getting the flu from the shot is a redneck story that has been going around for years, Being ill in a low class, blue color, crowd seems to be some sort of warped status symbol.. Why not rise above it all and get the shot?.

I have received a letter from my physician advising me not to get the flu shot this year - as they have added the H1N1 to the flu shot. They had so much left over guess they didn't know what to do with it. I am a senior so please be aware.

The flu is not that common, it's very rare, most people get colds.

I agree, I'm 53 years old and the last time I had the flu I was probably 8 years old. I don't understand the fear tactics and what's behind them.

Exactly. It takes a few weeks for the vaccine to be effective. If you get the flu after the shot, then you just got the flu. Need to get the shot earlier next year.

Go to the ER and get substandard care because most people there don't have insurance and your ins is paying for them. Someone has to pay their bill so its you.