re: swine flu (h1n1)

Quoting Grace's Momma:“ I never planned to get my daughter vaccinated for h1n1 because I don't trust the shot. She got h1n1 and is now over the illness.”

did she just have to take a pill?

Quoting Ashleynicole2283:“ did she just have to take a pill?”

She is only 2 so she can not take pills. They gave her tamiflu in liquid form (not sure if it comes in pills as well) .

We all got ours yesterday, no side effects thus far.. just a sore arm for a few hours...

Quoting Joeys Momma =):“ lol if NURSES dont want it, i dont think i want it for me or my son. . . ithink im just gona keep him in the house allll winter.”

I'm a nurse and I got it. There was a line up at the health nurses office at work because all the staff that wanted it.
Alot of us were not going to get the shot at first but then the number of cases coming into the hospital started increasing. The Infection Control doctors told us that it's just the begining, it's going to get worse. We are seeing more and more casesof healthy people seriously ill from getting H1N1.
I just got my daughter done and she is 13 months old. She is a little crabby tonight but that's it.

Quoting OthoPed:“ I'm a nurse and I got it. There was a line up at the health nurses office at work because all the staff ... [snip!] ... ill from getting H1N1. I just got my daughter done and she is 13 months old. She is a little crabby tonight but that's it.”

We just had a man die here from it...he was healthy...the only underlying issue was high blood pressure. The line at the hospital I work at was long too. They were supposed to be giving out the shots over 3 days...they were out in 45 minutes. I got it in the knick of time. We have tons of isolation patients right now.

Quoting Ashleynicole2283:“ CDC...FDA..blahblah... Sorry but If you do not KNOW the ingredients in these shots, please just look ... [snip!] ... Oh and by the way, if GlaxoSmithKline is developing anything, I would assume their number one priority is profit.”

blah blah blah....sorry, i'd rather deal with side effects than have a dead child.

Quoting OthoPed:“ I'm a nurse and I got it. There was a line up at the health nurses office at work because all the staff ... [snip!] ... ill from getting H1N1. I just got my daughter done and she is 13 months old. She is a little crabby tonight but that's it.”

the post about the ingredients freaked me out alil bit, but if noone else seems to be having ill effects from it, ill probably get us vaccinated. ugh.i just gota think about it more.

Quoting Joeys Momma =):“ the post about the ingredients freaked me out alil bit, but if noone else seems to be having ill effects from it, ill probably get us vaccinated. ugh.i just gota think about it more.”

that was exactly her intention...to freak you out. i know tons of people who have gotten vaccinated with no ill side effects. I got vaccinated this past Monday and am perfectly fine.   Just a sore arm from the needle poke.

Quoting Joeys Momma =):“ have any of you gotten your toddlers vaccinated? and were there any bad side effects or anything? im ... [snip!] ... but i dont know how i feel about the vaccine. id prefer to hear from people with kids around his age. hes two =) thankss!!”

Not but I plan on getting mine today.
Approved vaccines -- including the 2009 H1N1 swine flu vaccine -- are calculated to be much, much less risky than the diseases they prevent. For example, out of every million people who get a flu shot, one or two will get a serious neurological reaction called Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS).
But flu itself causes serious problems, including GBS, in far more than two in a million cases. And since a large proportion of the population will get swine flu, the vaccine risk is far smaller than the disease risk.
In clinical trials, 10,000 to 15,000 children and adults have received various manufacturers' brands of H1N1 swine flu vaccine. Nothing serious happened to any of them

Quoting Joeys Momma =):“ yea, my biggest worry is just that it is so new. im afraid there might be long term side affects that ... [snip!] ... had to call in from the parking lot. i think he just had too much orange juice though, but that just freaked me out even more.”

Its new but it isnt....
The 2009 H1N1 swine flu vaccine is made exactly the same way as the seasonal flu vaccine, by the same manufacturers using the same materials -- except for one shiny new piece.
What has changed is the piece of the virus the vaccine uses to prime the immune system.
Vaccine expertssay this change isn't all that new. Every couple of years or so, a new variant of a seasonal flu virus comes along. When that happens, a "new" vaccine is made using the relevant part of the variant virus.
And even though the 2009 H1N1 swine flu is a genuinely new virus, it's still closely related to seasonal flu bugs. One of the vaccines in the three-in-one seasonal flu vaccine protects against seasonal H1N1 flu, which is about 75% similar to the 2009 H1N1 swine flu -- although it offers no protection against the pandemic flu.
Last year, some 100 million people got the seasonal flu vaccine. No safety issues appeared. That's reassuring, but it's no proof that something rare and unexpected can't happen.
There's no denying that the virus particle used in the vaccine has never been used before. No scientific calculation can rule out the chance that something unexpected might happen.
But one can calculate that this chance will be small. And the chance that the vaccine will prevent serious illness and deaths is very, very large.

Quoting *Brooke*:“ Its new but it isnt.... The 2009 H1N1 swine flu vaccine is made exactly the same way as the seasonal ... [snip!] ... that this chance will be small. And the chance that the vaccine will prevent serious illness and deaths is very, very large.”

thats a good point.
everyone has a good point, whether its for or against the shot. i think were going to get it, just because i want my son to be safe and, as someone has already mentioned, hes at less risk of getting seriously ill from the shot than he is from catching swine flu.

Quoting Tyler & Kyle's Mom:“ blah blah blah....sorry, i'd rather deal with side effects than have a dead child.”

I couldn't agree with u more!!

Quoting Joeys Momma =):“ thats a good point. everyone has a good point, whether its for or against the shot. i think were going ... [snip!] ... as someone has already mentioned, hes at less risk of getting seriously ill from the shot than he is from catching swine flu.”

That's exactly how I feel. Plus I work in healthcare. I take care of flu patients.

Quoting MamaEpp:“ I couldn't agree with u more!!”

thanks  

Quoting Tyler & Kyle's Mom:“ That's exactly how I feel. Plus I work in healthcare. I take care of flu patients.”

yeaa