Are flu shots recommended for young folks?
Anyone who has extensive contact with the public or chronic respiratory disease.
Yes they are and this is why.
There are lots of controversial and confusing things about influenza vaccines
One thing is not controversial, and that is that influenza deaths/100 000 population are reduced by vaccination.
Yes. from age 2 on
Are flu shots recommended for young folks?
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I may have mentioned this before on the board, but I developed a nasty and tenacious flu around Christmas time. This was after getting a flu shot and pneumonia shot in October. Things seemed normal at first, slight fever, malaise, and a developing cough but there was something about this one that was different. Like the story on the little girl, I started to feel better after a short while, but then it came back with a vengeance. Walking briskly put me out of breath, which I had never experienced before. I had an uncontrollable, persistent dry cough and the doc said I had slight upper respiratory congestion. He prescribed antibiotics, a nasal inhaler, and Mucinex. It was a month before I got over that sucker. One thing he did, which I think helped immensely was to prescribe the use of that plastic breathing device with the blue weight in a vertical tube that you raise to the top by inhaling slowly into the device. You repeat the practice ten times every hour. It seemed to help open the alveoli and bring up the phlegm to get it out of my lungs. If you get the flu this season take it seriously, it can sneak up on you a second time just when you think you are getting better.
Yes. Complications of Influenza tent to kill at the extremes of age, the young and the old.
This child had a typical fatal outcome from the flu. It was the secondary bacterial infection that killed her.
Yes, they are. According to the CDC 80% of all children who die of the flu have not been vaccinated.