Marthatex
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I wonder if immunities from past flu shots; or having the flu years ago helps at all.
Flu season, and vaccine, looking worse
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I take a flu shot and a pneumonia shot every year. I haven't had the flu since I began taking the shots. I work with John Q. Public in a place where people feel they need to come on the days they are off sick from work. Ugh! Good handwashing and the germicides are essential. Money is also a horrible source to come into contact with germs and viruses!
shelly
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I took a flu shot around November. It seems I dodged the illnesses going around last last year and January. Unfortunately, one finally got me and I've been in bed for a week with what started as a sore throat with a horrendous cough.
Today is the first day I felt like sitting up for more than 5 minutes so I am hoping I am on the mend.
Today is the first day I felt like sitting up for more than 5 minutes so I am hoping I am on the mend.
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Sounds like either strep or bronchitis, both of which are going around in very high numbers. 1000mg of Vitamin D is proven to produce antibiotic secretions in our bronchial tubes and reduces/eliminates various infections as a result. It worked for me earlier this year. It's an overall immunity booster, as well.
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I have never taken a flu shot, haven't had the flu in 20 years.
The last time I got a cold/flu was when I belonged to the YMCA. No matter how much I washed my hands or used the spray antibacterials on the equipment, I was getting ill constantly. I dropped the membership, bought my own equipment and no more flu.
The last time I got a cold/flu was when I belonged to the YMCA. No matter how much I washed my hands or used the spray antibacterials on the equipment, I was getting ill constantly. I dropped the membership, bought my own equipment and no more flu.
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It takes awhile for the immunity from the vaccine to build up (two weeks, iirc). If a person was already exposed before being vaccinated, they will go on to have the flu.
My personal experience is that the years that I have had a flu shot, I did not get the flu and when I caught colds they were very short lived. We didn't get the shots this year so I'm just crossing my fingers.
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http://www.pjstar.com/stories/022108/TRI_BFRGAM6I.029.php
PEORIA - After a slow start in Illinois, the influenza virus is flexing its muscles and flooring its victims. And, experts say, this season's vaccine is not fully impeding the flu's assault.
According to officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the distributed vaccine is protecting against about 40 percent of this year's flu viruses, whereas, during a good year, it can protect against between 70 percent and 90 percent of bugs in healthy adults. Peoria County had 16 percent of all suspected flu cases during the week of Feb. 3 to Feb. 9 test positive, according to preliminary data from the Peoria City/County Health Department, which documents the number of cases of influenza in the county.
I don't know about where you all live but here everyone is sick. Last week my 9 year old was out with cough and fever for two days. We got a letter saying half his class was out so they had no homework. Luckily my DH and I have not come down with it but my 3 year old starting having a stuffy nose this morning. I am praying it is not the flu but every where I turn someone is coughing or saying that are sick or someone in their family is. I want to go live in a bubble. I am a germaphobe if you haven't guessed already. Pedianurse, what can I give my 3 year old for her nose? I know they are saying no cold medicines now.
PEORIA - After a slow start in Illinois, the influenza virus is flexing its muscles and flooring its victims. And, experts say, this season's vaccine is not fully impeding the flu's assault.
According to officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the distributed vaccine is protecting against about 40 percent of this year's flu viruses, whereas, during a good year, it can protect against between 70 percent and 90 percent of bugs in healthy adults. Peoria County had 16 percent of all suspected flu cases during the week of Feb. 3 to Feb. 9 test positive, according to preliminary data from the Peoria City/County Health Department, which documents the number of cases of influenza in the county.
I don't know about where you all live but here everyone is sick. Last week my 9 year old was out with cough and fever for two days. We got a letter saying half his class was out so they had no homework. Luckily my DH and I have not come down with it but my 3 year old starting having a stuffy nose this morning. I am praying it is not the flu but every where I turn someone is coughing or saying that are sick or someone in their family is. I want to go live in a bubble. I am a germaphobe if you haven't guessed already. Pedianurse, what can I give my 3 year old for her nose? I know they are saying no cold medicines now.
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I have what I am assuming is this virus. I feel really crummy- in fact, I'm going back to bed in a bit. I went this morning and bought a smoothie with some immunity stuff in it and just took some Airborne (those fizzy tablets) in water. When I get sick, I just sleep, sleep, sleep until it's gone. I hope this is over quickly!
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Hope you feel better soon.:blowkiss: My boss just came in and asked me if I was sick and wanted to fill out an illness report. Apparently there is an outbreak going on here. Well I do work at a hospital but in an office not with patients. Now I am really paranoid.
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Several of my kids have it and I am just waiting for the others to follow.
I was just complaining about the vomit and snot that covers all the bedding in my house. I am washing clothes like there is no tomorrow on top of packing up the family for a trip to Mexico.
I told hubby we are not gonna be the typhoid mary of mexico and since we are leaving in March everyone had better go ahead and get sick and get over it. LOL.
I was just complaining about the vomit and snot that covers all the bedding in my house. I am washing clothes like there is no tomorrow on top of packing up the family for a trip to Mexico.
I told hubby we are not gonna be the typhoid mary of mexico and since we are leaving in March everyone had better go ahead and get sick and get over it. LOL.
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Hope you feel better soon.:blowkiss: My boss just came in and asked me if I was sick and wanted to fill out an illness report. Apparently there is an outbreak going on here. Well I do work at a hospital but in an office not with patients. Now I am really paranoid.
GERM-X!!
Seriously. Bathe in it if you have to! LOL.
Here in Colorado we have "widespread" cases of the flu. We also have a nasty cold virus going around that gives you a wicked cough. My daughter caught the cold and I had the cough without all the congestion.
There is a ton of info about the flu here: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/
Watch for the fever....
imthemom: my favorite for stuffy noses (and coughs too) is VapoRub. Fantastic stuff!!
There is a ton of info about the flu here: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/
Watch for the fever....
imthemom: my favorite for stuffy noses (and coughs too) is VapoRub. Fantastic stuff!!
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Feds prescribe new recipe for flu shot
Next year's flu vaccine is getting a complete overhaul to provide protection against three new and different influenza strains hopefully better protection than this year's version.
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously backed the new recipe on Thursday, echoing an earlier decision by the World Health Organization. It's a highly unusual move: Seldom are more than one or two strains swapped out from one year to the next.
One concern: A strain called Brisbane/10 that's responsible for much of this winter's misery doesn't grow very quickly in the laboratory, potentially complicating already laborious vaccine production.
The flu vaccine must be reformulated every year to keep up with the fast-evolving influenza virus, and this year the government made a rare wrong bet on which strains would cause the most disease. The flu season got off to a slow start, but it rocketed in mid-January as some new strains arrived and the CDC found the vaccine is a good match for only about 40 percent of the virus now spreading in the U.S.
That Brisbane/10 strain is the big culprit, one first spotted in Australia late last winter, too late for scientists to include in this year's vaccine recipe even if they had predicted it would gain steam.
Flu viruses come in different strains that constantly mutate, until one that few people have immunity against emerges and is able to spread widely. Each year's vaccine contains protection against two varieties of the harsher Type A flu subtypes known as H1N1 and H3N2 and one from the more benign Type B family.
CDC and international authorities expect Brisbane/10, a version of the H3N2 flu, to still be around next year. They predict a second new Type A strain, known as H1N1/Brisbane/59, also will hit, along with a newer Type B/Florida strain, prompting Thursday's decision to put all three in next year's vaccine.
It's a gamble based on tracking illness around the globe, and the CDC does have a pretty good record: 16 of the last 19 flu seasons had well-matched vaccines.
Still, "as we always say, influenza is quite unpredictable," Cox cautioned Thursday.
More at link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_he_me/flu_vaccine&printer=1;_ylt=AlOI6EAYPyBxHv280jdaoyta24cA
Next year's flu vaccine is getting a complete overhaul to provide protection against three new and different influenza strains hopefully better protection than this year's version.
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously backed the new recipe on Thursday, echoing an earlier decision by the World Health Organization. It's a highly unusual move: Seldom are more than one or two strains swapped out from one year to the next.
One concern: A strain called Brisbane/10 that's responsible for much of this winter's misery doesn't grow very quickly in the laboratory, potentially complicating already laborious vaccine production.
The flu vaccine must be reformulated every year to keep up with the fast-evolving influenza virus, and this year the government made a rare wrong bet on which strains would cause the most disease. The flu season got off to a slow start, but it rocketed in mid-January as some new strains arrived and the CDC found the vaccine is a good match for only about 40 percent of the virus now spreading in the U.S.
That Brisbane/10 strain is the big culprit, one first spotted in Australia late last winter, too late for scientists to include in this year's vaccine recipe even if they had predicted it would gain steam.
Flu viruses come in different strains that constantly mutate, until one that few people have immunity against emerges and is able to spread widely. Each year's vaccine contains protection against two varieties of the harsher Type A flu subtypes known as H1N1 and H3N2 and one from the more benign Type B family.
CDC and international authorities expect Brisbane/10, a version of the H3N2 flu, to still be around next year. They predict a second new Type A strain, known as H1N1/Brisbane/59, also will hit, along with a newer Type B/Florida strain, prompting Thursday's decision to put all three in next year's vaccine.
It's a gamble based on tracking illness around the globe, and the CDC does have a pretty good record: 16 of the last 19 flu seasons had well-matched vaccines.
Still, "as we always say, influenza is quite unpredictable," Cox cautioned Thursday.
More at link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_he_me/flu_vaccine&printer=1;_ylt=AlOI6EAYPyBxHv280jdaoyta24cA
Hope you feel better too.
My family and I are taking AirBorne because the kids have bad colds.