Posted on 11/23/2005 1:02:18 PM PST by ScubieNuc
I know that if you work in a hospital or have immune problems, that a flu shot is recommended. However, I have a gut feeling it is becomeing America's "feel-good" asprin.
My wife and I had a discussion on getting flu shots for the kids. I am against it. Our kids are healthy, and don't need to be poked unnecessarily. A few years ago, only the elderly and those with immune problems got them, now you're looked at weird if you don't get one.
I personally try to minimize my dependence on medication on the belief that my immune system won't get dependant on outside sources.
Am I totally hosed on this or is there medical support for my resistance to flu shots?
No one in my family gets them.
It's for types A & B this year, and the clinic I go to has already seen cases in late October. I got my shot, better than puking.
One of the things that they are suggesting, is that if you don't get a flu shot that you might be needlessly endangering the elderly and young in your family. These are the groups most likely to die if they get the flu.
In the last 10 years, I've gotten 1 flu shot.
I ended up in the hospital 4 days later with acute sinusitis and cellulitis.
Doc said it wasn't from the shot. Just a coincidence.
True story!
I turned down a flu shot 3 times this year!
(THUMP)
I don't get them. I think it's best if healthy people don't get them if we don't need them. Exposure to various viruses is what makes our immune systems stronger.
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LOL 8^)
According to DOD, all military must get them....
I have to get one because of health reasons, but my daughter in college is getting one, because she lives in a dorm they consider her at risk. My other daughter said they gave her a flu shot at work for free. My husband got one since he's in the Coast Guard. No ill effects from it either. Just a little soreness in my arm for a day or so.
I'm with you. If you are elderly or immuno-challenged, I could see it, but not healthy folks.
Besides (pulling out tin foil), I don't think any of them know what they are doing anyway. A couple of years ago when there was such a huge scare and shortage, they were giving shots that were not even the strain of the particular flu that was going around!
I wonder about the necessity of it too. I work in a hospital, but am not around patients. Still, I accept their free flu shot every year. A nurse comes right to my desk with it, so I figure what the heck. I've never had a reaction, and haven't had the flu since I began working there.
My wife gets flu shots but she works in a hospital. She probably exposes me to all kinds of stuff but she calls me the human vaccine factory because I never really get sick.
None of my children (or me) has ever had a flu shot. My husband gets one some years, if he happens to be at the doctor for something else. None of us ever gets the flu.
Wash your hands a lot, and stay out of day-care centers.
I have had no shots since I got out of the Army in 1974.(other than novicaine to extract teeth or stitch a wound or two.) I am quite healthy. I think shots are grossly overrated.
I agree. And thank you for your service to our country. It is appreciated.
A whiskey shot frequently throughout the winter will do just as well, if not better. Combine it with other health powerhouses like tea, lemon and honey.
I think if I recomend to my wife that the kids have a shot of whiskey instead of the flu shot, she'll have me committed. 8^)
However, for myself....
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