Flu Jab

[mintymow]

What, if any, reaction can you get from the flu jab.

[Baldric]

//why put yourselves through flu-like symptoms//

What Flu-like symptoms, neither of us have any reaction whatsoever, and don't know anyone who does

[woofgang]

JJ the flu jab will not have caused your sisters symptoms. No way no how.

[jennyjoan]

Well it has put me off.

[boxtops]

Up to you, conne - but you'd feel a great deal worse if you do get struck with the flu. I hope you don't!

[Mamyalynne]

As you say JJConne,each to their own.

[Daffy6543]

I thought the flu vaccine was incapable of giving flu?

[boxtops]

It's got the H1N1 strain in it again this year, protects against bird flu too :-) http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/flu-influenza-vaccine.aspx

[boxtops]

Daffy it is, but some people get "flu like" symptoms for a couple of days.

[Daffy6543]

Ah, ok.
I rarely have the jab even though i'm supposed to. The last time I had flu was the 1999/2000 winter. Me and all 3 kids caught it and spent pretty much the whole christmas huddled together on the sofa.

[boxtops]

I got it that year too - all my Millennium party plans went clean out the window, I just didn't care.

[glenbar]

Agree with most on here. Flu is awful and the older one gets the longer it takes to recover. Jab every year for me although I did still have it even with the jab one year. Was probably a different strain I was told.

[pixie373]

My son has the jab, due to asthma. He's not had any side-effects at all, so far. Has to be safer than risking that.

[woofgang]

The inactivated virus in the jab causes your body to produce antibodies. It can't give you the flu or anything else because the virus is dead and so can't reproduce. However the body's antibody producing reaction can result in feeling a bit tired and achey or feverish.