2006-10-19 07:54:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Everyone I know who has ever gotten one has gotten the flu shortly after the shot. There are so many strands of flu that the shot can't prevent them. I have never had one shot and have not had the flu in 3 years (knock on wood)!! Just take your vitamin C and yo should be OK, at that's what I do.
2006-10-19 08:03:02 · answer #1 · answered by SareBare 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Often times people think they have the "flu" when they just have a bad cold.
The flu is a very specific respiratory virus that causes sudden and overwhelming exhaustion, body aches, chills, dry cough, fever, headache, sore throat and stuffy nose. You really feel as though you can't get out of bed. It's overwhelming.
The flu shot protects against the three flu viruses in circulation during the season, but it won't protect against colds.
The vaccine is made by using inactivated (dead) virus so you can't get the flu from the shot.
If you get sick shortly after getting the shot, you were probably exposed to the flu before you got the shot - it takes several days for the symptoms to show up.
Every year in the U.S. 200,000 people are hospitalized and about 36,000 people die from the flu.
Flu shots are a good idea!
2006-10-19 18:27:25 · answer #2 · answered by starlight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know for sure; but quite a few people told me that they never got the flu, but when they got the shot, they were sick for weeks. From the sounds of that, it sounds like the dang flu shot actually causes you to have the flu? No idea!
2006-10-19 15:04:37 · answer #3 · answered by dyingatwork 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, I have to get one every year because of my job, but I always seem to get the flu, so to answer your question I guess it depends on the person how the flu shot works.
2006-10-19 14:57:25 · answer #4 · answered by ~Kricket~ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My brother always gets flu like sickness after he gets the shot , so I stay away from it .
2006-10-19 21:35:03 · answer #5 · answered by litespeed2rw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great as long as you realize it is for the achy, headachy, fever flu and not what people often call the flu where you vomit and have diarrhea. That is really intestinal distress or gastritis or something not really "the flu".
2006-10-19 14:57:24 · answer #6 · answered by AKA FrogButt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had one and I managed to not have the flu at all that season, so I would say they work.
2006-10-19 14:58:53 · answer #7 · answered by ~SSIRREN~ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always thought flu shots gave you the flu, or was it just me. :)
2006-10-19 14:56:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
everyone i know gets the flu from the shot screw that i would rathere take my chances...
2006-10-20 05:58:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never get a flu shot
I have never had the flu
2006-10-19 22:57:30 · answer #10 · answered by Wicked 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋