This has happened to a few of my friends....they get the shot and then they get sick from it. lol....and they aren't usually sickly so they probably wouldn't even have gotten sick in the first place. The shots are free as employee benefits...or what not...so they just decide to get them. Did the flu shot make YOU sick at all?
2007-10-12 17:16:36 · 23 answers · asked by SKAT 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Oh okay...sick meaning full out vomiting, fever, and most of the other severe flu symptoms.
2007-10-12 17:20:56 · update #1
lol obviously I know the shot contains a bit of the actual virus...thats the whole point. Im just saying its wierd that I dont know many people who got them...but those that did...got sick. You would think the ratio would be much less...to hardly any.
2007-10-12 17:22:40 · update #2
my mother was dying of cancer back in the winter of 1995...she insisted that everyone in the family who would be around her any length of time had to get a flu shot...i have 3 sisters and a brother...they all went and got their shots as instructed...i "said" i did get my shot...but a week later when they were all sick, my mother KNEW i'd not gotten one...LOL they were all horribly sick and i never did get sick at all that year...so YES it has happened, but not to me...
2007-10-12 17:26:07 · answer #1 · answered by PatsyAnn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok. When you get a flu shot, they're actually pumping into you a weakened strain of the newest mutation of influenza (or flu). They're giving you a weakened strand of the illness, because in its weakened state, it isn't as likely to make you sick, because your immune system can fight it off a lot more easily than the fully potent strain of influenza. Lots of people get a little sick after getting flu shots, because like I said, it's a mutated strain. Flu changes and mutates every year, and flu shots are doctors giving you the flu, but it's in a weakened condition that your immune system can easily overcome. Just like when you get a tetanus shot, if you step on a rusty nail. Same thing. Don't worry if you get a flu shot, and then feel a little sick. The discomfort you're feeling now is much less worse than how you'd be feeling if you got this seasons full blown flu, even though it's not fun. Trust me, it could be making you feel a LOT worse.
2007-10-13 00:28:38 · answer #2 · answered by mxyzptlk20 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In 1976 I was in the Army, 101 Abn. Div.
There was an epidemic of the Swine flu somewhere overseas and they tested an experimental vaccine on some of us without our permission or even telling us what it was. The vaccine was composed of some killed virus and a small amount of live virus. The next day all who got the shot had the flu, varying in severity from person to person. Some severe. I was pretty healthy most of my life and didn't get to ill but it wasn't untill years later when reading a medical journal that I found out about the "experiment". So............find out about the vaccine first.
2007-10-13 00:27:00 · answer #3 · answered by Justin Case 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in more recent years the vaccines that are used have a killed virus in them so it is always possible that the people who have received the injections were about to get sick anyway. about 10 years ago, i can remember a friend that got the vaccine every year and then was sick every year but that was when they still used the live virus. and the reasoning behind it was that they might get the flu but it wouldn't be as bad. well, it was still contagious to all of us innocent people who were around them and got sick because of them.
over the last few years my kids and i have had the shot and none of us got the flu
2007-10-13 00:24:38 · answer #4 · answered by christy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It isn't common at all to have full-blown symptoms from getting a flu shot. It is common to experience some mild symptoms, site injection discomfort, and an overall "bleh" feeling for a day or so... I travel all over the state doing paperwork for flu shot clinics, they give hundreds of shots every day and very rarely is anything serious ever reported.
If a number of your friends who all had the vaccine from the same source are having FULL BLOWN symptoms, I would check into the conditions under which the vials of medicine or pre-filled syringes were kept. If not properly refrigerated, they can begin to grow bacteria, which when injected, would make you feel pretty damn awful.
2007-10-13 02:23:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
the virus in the flu vaccine (shot) is deactivated virus. It can not reactivate and begin replicating. It is normal to feel a little prodromal afterwards as your body uses energy to produce antibodies. The nasal spray does have live attenuated influenza , though. It takes about 2 weeks to produce the antibodies, so any time before that you can actually catch what you were vaccinated against.
Here is a link to the cdc website:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm
oh, vomitting usually means something else such as norwalk virus. Flu is influenza. Influenza is a virus that attacks the respiratory system. Flu infects your lungs, not your stomach. So they probably caught a virus while waiting to get the vaccine in the waiting room. Ugh.
Here is a link:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20030114/flu_not030114?s_name=&no_ads=
2007-10-13 09:10:24 · answer #6 · answered by dedum 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Flu vaccines are actually weakened versions of the flu virus. Although you now have the flu (btw, this is not uncommon), it is probably a much milder version than what you risk in NOT taking the shot. The vaccine and this mild flu that you have build up your body's immune system and will help you avoid contracting the serious stuff.
2007-10-13 00:23:28 · answer #7 · answered by nytebreid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, this has never happened to me but I know why this happens. Doctors put a bit of the flu bacteria/cells into the vaccine, so that your body can recognize the bacteria/cells if you actually get the flu. This way the body can fight it off and you wont be sick. Hope this helps!! :)
2007-10-13 00:21:33 · answer #8 · answered by nobelpercussiongrl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it isn't something common but it is possible.
When you are given vaccines the "flu microbes" are introduced to ur body in small quantities or weakened.
So if the microbes were too strong or given in large quantities then the flu microbes could have entered ur body and if ur WBC'c couldnt fight it away. (which is supposed to happen when we are given vaccines) then that means that the person is likely to get the flu from the flu vaccine.
I guess the doc introduced to much of it into their body or they were probably very weak, but u said they werent sickly!
2007-10-13 00:22:47 · answer #9 · answered by ★mini..me★ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, i dont know about the flu vaccine, but i know that the chicken pox vaccine can actually cause a very mild case of chicken pox. the vaccination actually contains a little of the virus (for some reason i'm sure only known to doctors or chemists or something).
maybe it's the same thing with the flu vaccine.
2007-10-13 00:20:17 · answer #10 · answered by Coltsgal 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋