Re: Flu jab 2018 booked
Originally Posted by
Twink55
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but if you have an underlying health condition that puts you at greater risk, you can get them at any age.
If you have underlying health conditions, you may well be advised to wait before having a vaccine and your body's ability to provide the necessary immune response to the vaccine may well be greatly diminished depending on your condition.
Such facts are clearly explained in the various leaflets that come in the vaccine packets, so people need to take the time and care insist that their GP's give them a packet insert leaflet.
Here's the related information from the insert leaflet from one of the UK 2018/2019 flu vaccines
https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/9223
Seqirus FLUAD
"Immunisation shall be postponed in patients with febrile illness or acute infection."
"Antibody response in patients with endogenous or iatrogenic immunosuppression may be insufficient."
"A protective response may not be elicited in all vaccinees. "
"No clinical data on concomitant administration with other vaccines are available."
"If Fluad needs to be used at the same time as another vaccine, immunisation should be carried out on separate limbs. It should be noted that the adverse reactions may be intensified. "
"The immunological response may be diminished if the patient is undergoing immunosuppressant treatment."
"Anxiety-related reactions, including vasovagal reactions (syncope), hyperventilation or stress-related reactions, can occur. . . . this can be accompanied by several neurological signs such as transient visual disturbance, paraesthesia and tonic-clonic limb movements during recovery"
Adverse Side Effects seen during clinical trials
Very Common - Headache, Myalgia, Tenderness, pain at injection site, fatigue,
Common - Nausea, Diarrhoea, Vomiting, Sweating, Arthralgia
Other General disorders observed
Asthenia, Influenza-Like Illness
Extensive swelling of injected limb lasting more than one week, injection-site cellulitis-like reaction (some cases of swelling, pain and redness extending more than 10 cm and lasting more than one week).
Allergic reactions including anaphylactic shock (in rare cases), anaphylaxis and angioedema.
Pain in the extremity, muscular weakness
Encephalomyelitis, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, convulsions, neuritis, neuralgia, paraesthesia, syncope, presyncope.
Generalised skin reactions including erythema multiforme, urticaria, pruritus or non-specific rash.
Vasculitis with transient renal involvement.
Ingredients
sodium chloride, potassium chloride, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, disodium phosphate dihydrate, magnesium chloride hexahydrate, calcium chloride dihydrate and water
Always check out the substances in any vaccine you are thinking of having.