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.
Everything that doesn’t work 100% of the time is useless?
they tried to force a flu shot on me in the Canadian military before my first tour. I refused and it created a stink, I had to sign papers and all that, and even then they weren’t going to deploy me. Finally, they did, and the rest of my section of 8 who all had the shot got very sick. I was the only one able to work, and I never did get sick.
I don’t believe this shot helps, nor will I ever expose myself or my family to these government hyped shots.
And I've had one every year for a decade.
This poor girl's problem likely has nothing to with the flu shot at all. It could just as easily be pinned on something she ate.
Heck, my cats all do that... and they like to remind me that they're perfect in every way.
But no chemicals for me, unless it’s necessary for life.
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You eat an all organic diet?
From your link: “Calandra Burgess says all three of her kids got their flu shots this November, so she was surprised when her youngest son, Ronan, got sick. Sounds like her other two children didn’t come down with the flu.
You do realize that a flu shot can take several weeks before full immunity is imparted and that for a few people, it just doesn’t work, doesn’t cause a sufficient immune response. That doesn’t mean that flu shots are completely worthless.
Got the flu right now. No flu shot. My daughter has the flu too. She got the shot last november. Guess it didn’t work for her. She seems to have it just as bad as me.
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