Medusa wrote:
On Jul 1, 7:14 pm, Jeff wrote:
I got one flu shot years and years ago.
Only rarely does the flu shot make people sick.

I guess that makes me, my sister,a few friends, a college roommate,
and several co-workers rare.

Getting sick is fairly common. It happens several times a year, with
varying degrees of illness.

So you had pretty good odds of getting sick after a flu shot. It just
had nothing to do with the flu shot.

No wonder the thing made me
sick for days.
You probably were coming down with something and would have been sick
anyway.

No, I felt fine until the night after the shot.

Coincidence.

I always thought I had reacted to the viral parts of
the shot. Maybe, just maybe it was all the junk in the shot! Anti-
freeze! Ugh!
The amount of antifreeze, if any, is so tiny that it doesn't hurt you at
all.

Maybe it doesn't hurt you, but artificial chemicals make me very
sick.

Hate to say it, but life if full of artificial chemicals. Look at the
ingredients on your food labels.


Yeah, I know, I'm nuts because multiple chemical sensitivity
doesn't exist, blah, blah, blah. I just know what to avoid, and
antifreeze is one.

Yet, how much ethylene glycol is in a vaccine?

Influenza, on the other hand, can kill you.

Got a flu bug that year, anyway. That was the end of flu shots for
me.
A flu bug? The flu shots protect against specific infections from a
specific group of viruses. The "flu bug" you got was probably not influenza.

The flu shots are a crapshoot. They are making educated guesses about
what strains of influenza viruses will be making the rounds months
before the vaccines are made.

Key word: educated. Their "education" has been right on about 9 out of
10 times in the last ten years. So the vaccine provide good protection
most of the time.

Sometimes a virus gets missed, or it
mutates into a form that is too different to be covered with the shot.

About 1 out of 10 years. THat is a lot better than a crap shoot.

My father is a flu shot fanatic; never misses getting his shot every
year, yet sometimes he stilll catches a flu that was not part of the
ones in the vaccine.

Does he get influenza? Or a flu-like illness? And if it is influenza,
how is it diagnosed? And, if it truly is the flu, would he have been a
lot sicker if he didn't get the vaccine?

Yes, he knows it was a form of influenza.

How?

He
also never fails to see the doctor when he is sick.

And how does the doctor diagnose influenza? Does he do the proper viral
testing? Or just by symptoms?

I just hope your ignorance does not cause you an early death.

I survived the "Hong Kong" flu in 1968 (so did my family). I also got
the "Russian" flu in 1977. Not all cases of influenza lead to death,
10 days of total misery, but you can live through it, Even in 1918
people lived through it.

I never claimed otherwise. But, a lot of people didn't live through
these flu epidemics, too.

Thanks for posting this, Jan. I'm going to print it off for everyone
who tells me to get a flu shot. I'd rather deal with the viruses.
You're choice.

Yep. I'll just do all the avoidance techniques and hope for the best,
just like I hope a truck won't hit me when I cross the street.

On the other hand, I do things like look out for trucks.

Jeff

Medusa


Medusa