Would you let your child have this vaccine.

[jessica]

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.aspx?cp-document...

I personally would like a bit more research............
comments please.

[Kudos]

Yes

[TheEnd]

Yes, it's a flu vaccine.

Either that or flu repellent cotton wool

[grumbledoak]

Absolutely not.

Swine Flu itself has yet to kill a single person, here. Most suffers describe pretty ordinary flu symptoms and make a full recovery. Remember, a rushed out Swine Flu vaccine in the 1970s was withdrawn after it quickly seemed to be worse than the virus itself- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbre...

[HRG.]

Nope, I'm not passionately against it, but my kids are 10 & 11 and healthy, they'll feel st for a couple of days and then be fine. I don't see a need.

[Bill]

grumbledoak said:

Absolutely not.

Swine Flu itself has yet to kill a single person, here. Most suffers describe pretty ordinary flu symptoms and make a full recovery. Remember, a rushed out Swine Flu vaccine in the 1970s was withdrawn after it quickly seemed to be worse than the virus itself- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbre...

To be fair, medical science has progressed since the 70s.

SWMBO (a pregnant GP), miniBill (aged 2) will all have it.

ETA I'm unsure as although I have asthma and am eligible I haven't had a flu jab for years and as Mr Oak's pointed out it doesn't seem any worse than normal flu.

Edited by Bill on Thursday 22 October 16:48

[rocksteadieeddie]

Nope. Two kids 6 and 8 months and not for us.

Against medicine unless necessary. I've never had flu, or antibiotics, and I remain convinced that it is because my immune system has been built up over the years. The risk from swine flu is very small - a lot less than crossing the road for example.

[IforB]

I'm in the "at risk" category and let's just say that I shall be waiting for a few hundred thousand people to have had this vaccine before I allow it anywhere near me.

As an aside, I was chatting to my consultant about this and she mentioned that she'll be waiting a while too. As are my FiL (another consultant) and 3 other friends (one a GP, One a surgeon and another a consultant.)

A rushed through vaccine? What could possibly go wrong?.....

[RichyBoy]

Do I even need this jab? I had the swine flu, I sweated buckets and had very little appetite for a few days.

[IforB]

If you've had it already, then no you won't need a vaccine against it.

[Coco H]

Interesting stuff - my hospital was discussing it this am - they want to vaccinate babies now but provision has not been made for them. It is very confusing and frustrating for the staff who would vaccinate prem babies

[grumbledoak]

Coco H said:

they want to vaccinate babies now but provision has not been made for them. It is very confusing and frustrating for the staff who would vaccinate prem babies

This is really quite frightening. Have a good think about what we vaccinate against, why, when we started doing it historically, and at what age we do it.

[Pints]

Pregnant Mrs Pints received a letter to ask her to come in for her flu jab and she promptly rejected it.

Half Pints mk1 won't be getting the jab either.