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Questions and answers about a flu. 

1. How do we explain a fact that people who have gotten a influenza shot are still removing a flu?

They aren’t removing a flu. That isn’t probable since a influenza shot uses a passed pathogen to make we immune. Dead viruses can’t taint you. You can have a teenager allergic greeting to a shot that includes sniffles, brief flesh soreness, even slight fever. Flu Mist, that is a some-more new vaccine, utilizes a really enervated form of a virus, that isn’t used in immune-compromised patients though shouldn’t get we ill either.

2. we listened that influenza shots usually strengthen us for 3 months.  If we get a shot early on, is a second one endorsed to final a whole influenza season?

It is indeed 9 months, that is still copiousness to final a deteriorate if we got one in September. We give a second one for a really immature and infrequently for a really aged to boost their immunity.

3. Should we still get a influenza shot if we have already survived an knowledge with this nauseous bug and usually have a slow cough?

Yes since we can’t tell that aria we had, and we generally wish to strengthen we opposite a H3N2 strain, that is a one that is causing many of a difficulty this year and might not be a one we had.

4. Why should we get a influenza vaccine if I’m ideally healthy?

First, since a vaccine is totally protected and there is no reason not to get it. Second, since we could finish adult with a serious box notwithstanding being healthy, and there is justification that a vaccine might diminution how ill we get even when it isn’t totally effective during preventing flu.

5. we am endangered about a mercury in many influenza shots.

Thimerosal, that is a preservative that helps keep vaccines from being infested with bacteria, has never been shown to lead to autism, notwithstanding many systematic studies over many years.

6. we am allergic to eggs, though we wish a influenza vaccine. What should we do?

Check with your physician; we might be means to endure it if your allergy is amiable enough. Other options now exist, including FDA-approved mammalian dungeon influenza vaccines. Check with your medicine to see if that is available.

7. we am fearful that we have a flu. Should we go to a ER?

Right now we are endangered about puncture bedrooms being packed with patients who might not need to be there.  Classic symptoms of influenza embody fatigue, flesh aches, bruise throat, headache, nausea, cough, runny nose. Call your medicine or come in to see her. The ER might be indispensable if we can’t keep fluids down, can’t keep your heat down, or have other health conditions like heart problems or diabetes that can be done worse by a flu. Also be on a surveillance for bacterial infections such as pneumonia, bronchitis, and ear infections, that mostly accompany a influenza and can prompt a need for hospitalization or an obligatory caring visit.

Dr. Marc Siegel is an associate highbrow of medicine and medical executive of Doctor Radio during NYU Langone Medical Center. He is a member of a Fox News Medical A Team and author of several books, including “False Alarm; a Truth About a Epidemic of Fear”; He is also a author of “Swine Flu and Bird Flu.” His many new book is  The Inner Pulse: Unlocking a Secret Code of Sickness and Health.