To Flu Shot or Not? (Kids' Health)

It's flu season and before your kid starts sniffling you want to know: Is the flu shot a fabulous fix or a radical risk?

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[DaInfoMan11]

I'll pass on both. Not a fan of Mercury, Aluminum, squalene, adjuvants & a lot more!!!!

Do some real research before Vaccinating ppl, if you have to take a sick day from work & spend it the study up on the Risks & Benefits! Is it supprising to anyone that Autism in skyrocketed after the CDC triples the amount of shots in the Vaccine Schedule?

[benjaminredcloud]

I do not see the need for kids and healthy adults to get a flu shot. Unless the need is money wise. The pharmaceutical industries and doctors get money from our jabs, and our insurances or other health care plans won't loose money if we do not stay home sick.

My family doctor does not advise us to take the shot. He does not earn anything because flu shots are free in Italy, so his advise is totally unbiased!

[Aaron518]

That,I would say,is called being an idiot. Pneumonia is inflamation of the lungs and inflamation is an immune response to virus -among other things-and influenza is a virus that infects...guess what...the lungs. Influenza virus + lungs =inflamation of the lung tissue=Pneumonia. Rarely is Influenza indicated as the cause of death,mostly because its not tested for after death,so the flu related complication is indicated instead. Kinda like you'll see Heart attack listed instead of high colesterol.

[Chiro6262]

.........also, the medical research shows that the past 7 yrs (or more) flu shots have been totally ineffective for the strain that is currently "going around". So, in effect you are poisoning yourself by injecting known carninogens and toxins into your body each year. Good for you?

[Chiro6262]

There are only 230 or so deaths per year from the flu. If you SERIOUSLY look at the CDC webpage you can find that they combine flu/pneumonia deaths to come up with 32000 deaths. I would say THAT'S a scare tactic.

[bmchoszen15]

flu shot allergy shots i think are the only vaccines that arent dangerous, flu shots u dont really need unless ur old or have bad ashma or a poor immune system

[Shivell777]

"Which is currently approved for HEALTHY PEOPLE" ... LOL What?? I'd like to see yourself get one, douche!

[midwest26]

I just read recently that a majority of health care workers don't get flu shots. If they expect us to get them they sure are not leading a good example, or maybe they know something about them that we don't. What I do know is that this vaccine does not protect against all different kinds of flu just a certain flu virus.

[midwest26]

My two year old got the flu shot a total of two years. Now we no longer give him the flu shots here is why. The first year all was well until my daughter came home from school with a bad flu, and he got it anyway as fast as she got it. The next year he got the flu shot he began to get sick with the flu after the fourth day he got it. I don't take my kids to daycare so for now on if my daughter gets sick from school we just wear masks, and wash our hands it works the old way is the better way.

[Blazing1Star]

not true. You and your children might have their system rejecting the shot.