Posted on 01/06/2014 12:20:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
A 15-year-old girl is reportedly falling asleep up to 30 times a day after getting a flu shot. Australia’s News Limited reports Chloe Glasson began suffering from narcolepsy four months after being injected with Pandemrix, a vaccine to combat against swine flu, in November 2009. She is one of at least 100 people to suffer from the sleeping disorder after getting vaccinated with Pandemrix.
“She has gone from being a bright, outgoing girl to one who cannot go out on her own,” Rebecca Glasson, Chloe’s mother, told News Limited. “She doesn’t doze for more than a couple of hours at a time, but she can have disturbing dreams.”
Chloe Glasson will begin a new treatment of the specialist drug sodium oxybate at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, U.K., in hopes to get back to a normal sleeping pattern. “I am putting a lot of faith in the treatment,” Chloe told News Limited. “While the tablets won’t cure me, they may offer the chance of a more normal life.”
GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer behind Pandemrix, said in a statement they are researching how narcolepsy is reportedly triggered for some by the drug.
“Patient safety is our number one priority and we are researching how narcolepsy is triggered and how this vaccine might have interacted with other risk factors in affected individuals,” they told News Limited in a statement. “We hope ongoing research efforts will enable us to provide more answers.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends flu vaccinations for Americans older than 6 months.
Never had a flu shot; never will, unless I’m hog tied and it’s forced upon me.
my babysitter has been sick ever sionce she got it too
You have to eat a lot of GARLIC and other things to leach Mercury out of your body
The ACA method.
Evidently this isn’t an ordinary flu shot, but something called Pandemrix.
Different strokes for different folks. I’ve gotten a flu shot every year for most of my life, and I haven’t had any reaction to it—sore arm, or whatever—for many years.
This year everyone in the family got sick during the vacation except me and my wife. We got flu shots, and I’ve heard that they were particularly effective this year.
I also take Vitamin D3, among other things. And some garlic.
Where's the problem here?
Some info from the CDC on it:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/h1n1_narcolepsy_pandemrix.html
I wish I had known things like this are news.
“Man falls asleep 30 times a day while studying for accounting degree”
Never had a flu shot; never will, unless I’m hog tied and it’s forced upon me.
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All of us (wife and 3 kids) have been getting them for over a decade.
Haven’t had the flu in over a decade.
Flu shots are worthless.
Oregon boy gets flu shot, dies from flu a month later
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Yes, because that one anecdotal story is absolute proof of what you say.
Had very bad pneumonia in 2000. Got Flu shots every year and a pneumonia shot every 5 years. I would still get the Flu (or a very bad cold) every year. I haven’t had a shot for the last 3 years and haven’t had the Flu or a bad cold during that time. My experience means absolutely nothing. People who try to get other people to modify their behavior based anecdotes about themselves are being very narcissistic.
Nor have I. If your immune system is strong, you can battle it away. I guess kids (and older folk) have a more difficult time of it. But no chemicals for me, unless it’s necessary for life.
Look at the bright side. Maybe this is the first step to curing insomnia.
Is that liberal logic?
I have one every year. The mercury seems to be keeping me healthy. No colds or flu.
“Man falls asleep 30 times a day while studying for accounting degree”
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ROFL!!!
“You have to eat a lot of GARLIC and other things to leach Mercury out of your body”
But garlic attracts leeches and vampires. Which is worse? A little mercury or vampires and leeches sucking the blood out of you?
A friend of mine’s daughter suffered from narcolepsy as a teenager and never had a flu shot........go figure. Maybe she contracted it via airborn from someone in her class who did receive a flu shot? Hmmmmmmmmmmm
I get mine yearly. When I don’t, I get the flu and am miserable. Of course, I lost more than 10lbs. while sick, so maybe I should stop...
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