I woke up Wednesday morning achy with a sore throat. I spent all day yesterday in bed and just generally feel like crap today. My appetite is out the window and I feel like I'm getting a fever. I'm usually burning up in my office in the afternoons, and today I've got minor chills. Even though I slept all yesterday, I still feel exhausted. My husband had a flu shot last week. Someone told me today that it's possible I got the flu from him, since the flu shot contains the live virus. Is this true??????
2007-10-12 09:59:31 · 4 answers · asked by ♥uuɐuuǝɾ♥ 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Not all flu vaccines are live-vaccines. (the permission paper your husband probably signed when he got his shot will probably say what sort of vaccine it was)
Occasionally a person will get sick from the vaccine. Does he have the same symptoms as you? If he does not have any flu-like symptoms, then chances are you are catching a cold or the flu independent of him.
Go home, take care of yourself. Let your husband bring you soup in bed and get lots of rest.
2007-10-13 04:59:39 · answer #1 · answered by krinkn 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, you can't get the flu like that. But it is the cold and flu season, so you could have picked it up either pretty much anywhere: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm
Feel better soon!
2007-10-12 10:13:01 · answer #2 · answered by Llani 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! My husband and I are going through this every year! As soon as I'm done nursing him back to health, I'm flat on my back. Although I must say I'm enjoying blaming it on him so he'll wait on me hand and foot (hehe).
2007-10-12 10:07:52 · answer #3 · answered by Muschi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's possible you caught the disease from him. That does sometimes happen with vaccines that use live viruses. They can be transmitted to people who have not had the diseases.
2007-10-12 10:04:57 · answer #4 · answered by RoVale 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋