Flu Vaccine with a Head cold? Or dont get it?

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Originally Posted By: SumpChump
Originally Posted By: Virtus_Probi
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Make sure you're not getting it from a multi-dose vial and you should be fine.

Smokescreen sounds like one of those folks who thinks smallpox and polio were just peachy keen.


WHoa! Whats wrong with a multidose vial???


The multidose vial is more likely to contain thimerosal as a preservative. Usually the single dose vials don't have this.
 
I am 61. I've gotten flu shots for many years and never got the flu. But, last year, I got SIRVA (shoulder injury related to vaccine administration). Google it if you're interested but essentially this is a long lasting painful condition resulting from some or all of the vaccine being injected into the bursa sack rather than muscle. My shoulder hurt for nine months and I had limited ROM. It did eventually go away but, Jeez, is it really worth it? Plus, I retired this year so I have very limited exposure to other people's germs other than what my wife and daughter bring home. I may skip it this year.
 
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Thimerosal isn't mercury any more than salt is pure sodium or chlorine. It's a chemical compound that doesn't have the same properties of its elemental components. The anti-science crowd and fear-mongering when it comes to vaccines is disappointing.

A cold and the flu shot are unrelated, so get it if you wish, or wait if you'll feel better about it.

Originally Posted By: hatt
Why would healthy teenagers and young adults get a flu vaccine?

To help prevent the spread of the flu, and protect the most vulnerable through an act of social responsibility. This is known as herd immunity.

The effectiveness of the shot does vary from year-to-year. However, the very young, elderly, and those with compromised immune systems stand to gain the most when us healthy folks vaccinate.
 
Originally Posted By: Bandito440
To help prevent the spread of the flu, and protect the most vulnerable through an act of social responsibility. This is known as herd immunity.


The idea of getting vaccinated for the benfit of others seems absurd to many. "Live or die by your own immunities, weakling!"
 
Originally Posted By: hatt
Why would healthy teenagers and young adults get a flu vaccine?
Exactly.

I'm 21 and have never had "the flu" and haven't had a flu shot since I was about 14. Every single time I got the flu shot, within 2 weeks I was sick. Strange coincidence.

Now without it, I actually don't get sick very often. I see no need. I'm pro-vaccine but anti-flushot.
 
Originally Posted By: Nick1994

I'm 21 and have never had "the flu" and haven't had a flu shot since I was about 14. Every single time I got the flu shot, within 2 weeks I was sick. Strange coincidence.

I view the accuracy of this post with scepticism
 
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Originally Posted By: Al
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Originally Posted By: CT8
Originally Posted By: hatt
Why would healthy teenagers and young adults get a flu vaccine?
+1 plus the flu shot vaccines are unreliable.


+2
 
I've gotten the flu twice in my life. Both times were when I had gotten the flu shot. My wife and kids? The same deal. I work in the health care profession. I have been coughed on , vomited on, peed on, shat on, all by people with the flu. I never got it from a patient. I do kick up my cardio workouts during flu season. I don't know if that means anything, but I do sweat a bunch in a cardio workout.
 
To answer the OP's question.

You can get the flu shot if you're only mildly sick, meaning you are just the walking-wounded and can go do work and are on your own two feet and do your daily tasks and so on and just aren't 100% but are otherwise fully functional.


You don't get the flu shot if you're "Sick"-sick like you've got cancer or can't even stand and have to sit in a wheelchair in so sick that you should be in bed asleep or otherwise incapacitated.


Not sure why you needed it exactly today, unless you were planning that today was Family Flu-shot day anyway.
It's going to pile on a slight additional immune response with some additional mild symptoms, but if he's feeling slightly bad, might as well pile on, rather then feel slightly bad for a day 1week from now.
 
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Originally Posted By: hatt
Why would healthy teenagers and young adults get a flu vaccine?
Originally Posted By: hatt
I knew it wouldn't take long for someone to bring up smallpox etc.
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If you're young and worried about becoming severely ill or dying from common things that go around every single year you need to figure out how to be healthier so you can easily fight off these things, not get shots of hope every year.

You're healthy until you're not healthy, and if you ever get stricken by the flu; you feel so horrible and regret if you didn't get the shot so you didn't have to feel that way anymore.

By using your own logic, if you're as healthy as you remarked, why do you fear that the flu shot is going to hurt you?
Obviously, it seems like you're not as strong as you thought if some inactivated virus that old senior citizens handle fine take you down.

You might as well say, I'm a good defensive driver so I don't get car insurance.

Make your own decisions, no one cares what you personally do, but don't proselytize your views to others and say everyone else should do as you do.
 
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Originally Posted By: CT8
I doubt the Flu vaccine saves many lives.


You can doubt whatever you want cause there's no evidence that will be good enough for you, but just be aware it doesn't make you a "skeptic" it makes you a "denier" or a "cynic".
 
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By using your own logic, if you're as healthy as you remarked, why do you fear that the flu shot is going to hurt you?
LOL, that's not my logic at all. But I can play this game. By using your logic I should also see if the doctor will put me on a statin. Sure my numbers are fine but I doubt it will kill me, cause me strong like bull, so clearly I should be proactive and go for it. I can probably get all sorts of cool meds.
 
Originally Posted By: hatt
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By using your own logic, if you're as healthy as you remarked, why do you fear that the flu shot is going to hurt you?
LOL, that's not my logic at all. But I can play this game. By using your logic I should also see if the doctor will put me on a statin. Sure my numbers are fine but I doubt it will kill me, cause me strong like bull, so clearly I should be proactive and go for it. I can probably get all sorts of cool meds.


Pretty much. Look at all the healthy people in the gym taking supplements instead of just eating real food.

But if they want to do it thats their choice, you dont need to shake your head at them. Its a perfectly acceptable that they can be different than you and choose to put processed non natural items in their body.
 
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