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    Flu jab

    Where I work they offer the flu jab for free if any staff want it. I bust in and take it, won't hurt. I knopw some people get some cold symptoms if they have it.

    Just for clarification, if you have the flu, you will be in bed not able to move with hot flushes and muscle spasms. Anything less where a little sniffles goes is a cold. These people who say "I have the flu" and they are up and about drinking lemsip really gets on my nerves. If you have the flu, you will feel like dying, trust me I know I've had it one Christmas and it wasn't nice.

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    ditto, I had a temp of over 103...which is pretty near the point where your body's thermoregulation fails to keep your cooling systems functioning and you start to rapidly over heat, proteins and enzymes break down and you die.
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    Nope, but if it's free why not?

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    Beat a month drifting in and out of unconciousness in hospital ;- )

    Being an asthmatic they stick needles in my arms every year. Just gave blood today too. I was a brave soldier...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stringent
    I knopw some people get some cold symptoms if they have it.
    I don't know how that's possible, the flu jab is dead virus... there's nothing in it that could produce cold symptoms... the worst you could expect is a bit of soreness in the arm you had the injection in.

    Me and all the family are getting ours on Saturday.
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    i dont get/or have had the flu jab dispite being an asthmatic , mainly because i have a pretty strong immune system!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick
    I don't know how that's possible, the flu jab is dead virus... there's nothing in it that could produce cold symptoms... the worst you could expect is a bit of soreness in the arm you had the injection in.

    Me and all the family are getting ours on Saturday.
    Coincidence maybe? My nan now refuses to have the flu jab because she got flu after having it but to be completely honest that was just a conincidence.

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    Pah, you can have all your medicine jabs if you want, not me though, coming up to four years of no illnesses... With no help from medicine... Or maybe my mum has been putting medicine in my food and drink...nah maybe not

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    No, but I plan to get it soon.

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    The rest of my family does as they're asthmatic. My youngest daughter will this year as she's got faulty lungs & the wife will as she's a district nurse. But not me as there's no need. Our local surgery runs regular flu vac clinics where anyone can drop in & get it, tho preference is given to the elderly & asthma sufferers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick
    I don't know how that's possible, the flu jab is dead virus... there's nothing in it that could produce cold symptoms... the worst you could expect is a bit of soreness in the arm you had the injection in.

    Me and all the family are getting ours on Saturday.
    Yes its an 'inactive' form of the virus, but it has all the correct antigens on the surfae so the white blood cells create antibodies to fight it. It is this response that the body takes to fight off an infection. So you will get slight cold symptoms.

    The cold is your body fighting off the virus.

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    im not allowed any vaccines cos i have a very low immune system as the doctors say theres a chance i could get the disease from the jabs, so there must be some active ingredients. maybe i would just get relaly ill from trying to fight it i dunno i hate doctors try not to listen to them. annoying thing is im always ill, been in and out of hospital since birth.

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    last time I went for a flu jab I found the nurse a bit too personal and rude
    She said to me "just a little prick" and I said "how do you know?" and just turned round and walked out.

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    Flu jabs are considered highly recommended for those with lowered or compromised immune systems, such as the very young and the elderly.
    There may be exceptions, such as perhaps if you have HIV, but to be honest I used to work with people with HIV and in general they would still get the jabs.

    That said, for almost all of us here (i am assuming), eating our 5 portions of fruit and veg a day and the 30 minutes good exercise as we ride our bicycles to work is sufficient to be fit and healthy enough to fight any influenza virus.

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    i was at the docs this morning, ive got asthma, and he said "would you like a flu jab" i said sure ill get one arranged. "no worries!" he said "ive got one here" and stuck me there and then, didnt hurt a bit either.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick
    I don't know how that's possible, the flu jab is dead virus... there's nothing in it that could produce cold symptoms... the worst you could expect is a bit of soreness in the arm you had the injection in.

    Me and all the family are getting ours on Saturday.
    It's a 'non virulent' strain of the virus. As said, it's still capable of causing symptoms.

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