Recent questions tagged flu shot

Description : What are the normal after effects of a flu-shot?

Last Answer : Normally just a sore arm, maybe a little low energy, possibly a small grade fever.

Description : Anyone get frozen shoulder right after or weeks after a flu shot?

Last Answer : Shoulder injury related to vaccine administration, or SIRVA, caused by a vaccine injected too high up on the arm. People who suffer this frozen shoulder can seek compensation for their pain and suffering.

Description : Would you think up a brief but funny reply to tell my doctor today?

Last Answer : No thanks dealing with one prick today is enough.

Description : What is the absolute dumbest reason you have heard someone say for not getting a flu shot?

Last Answer : Gosh, @gobears, from what I’ve seen on ask-public in the past, don’t you think that any reason for not getting a flu shot is the dumbest reason? Just my impression from how you’ve approached the topic before.

Description : Who got a flu shot but got the flu regardless?

Last Answer : answer:Flu shots on good years are around 60% effective, as in 40% of people who get them are still capable of catching the flu. Unfortunately the Flu mutates so quickly that a lot of times the vaccine ... few months of the year and shortly after starting to get physical with a new girl each time.

Description : Is the flu shot you sniff also formulated in an egg base?

Last Answer : answer:Looks like yes, eggs are used From the federal Centers for Disease Control: Live Intranasal Influenza Vaccine Inflenza vaccine virus is grown in eggs. People with a severe egg allergy should not get ... http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-flulive.pdf http://www.flumist.com/

Description : Do you get a flu shot or do you avoid them, believing they give you flu?

Last Answer : I avoid them. I'm not in a high risk group to suffer complications from the flu, and I just don't see any point in getting an injection to prevent something that I've managed to get through so many times on ... whole big picture for me. So, I do not get a flu shot unless it is required for my work.