VIDEO: Flu Shot Recommended For Allergy, Asthma Sufferers

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by BMWK Staff | on September 27th, 2011 | 6 comments

It’s flu shot season and people with allergies need to pay attention.

For instance, if you have asthma and allergies, you will definitely need a flu shot.

“This is peak asthma season,” Dr. Deborah Gentile, an allergy specialist at Allegheny General Hospital, said. “We’re getting a lot of calls each day about flu vaccine.”

Infections can trigger an attack.

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Good Days

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http://twitter.com/hrwilliams7 Harriet

This is true IF the person is not allergic to eggs. My son has allergies (to include eggs) and asthma…but he can’t take the flu shot because of the allergy to eggs.

http://www.blackandmarriedwithkids.com Lamar

They touch on that in the story if not in the video follow the link. I think they said if it’s a mild allergy to eggs it’s still OK

http://www.blackandmarriedwithkids.com Lamar

Here it is:

And if you’re allergic to eggs — you may have heard you shouldn’t get
a flu shot, because the vaccine is manufactured using eggs, but studies
show if your allergy is mild, you are likely to tolerate it just fine.

“Basically if you have a mild allergy, just a skin reaction, your
primary care physician should be able to give it,” Dr. Gentile said.

But if you’ve ever had a severe reaction to eggs, with your throat
swelling and shortness of breath, you will want to see an allergist for
help.

“We typically do a protocol with graded doses,” she explained.

With even people allergic to eggs able to get a flu shot, only babies
under six months are among the few who can’t. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention recommends that just about everyone else should.

http://twitter.com/hrwilliams7 Harriet

It isn’t a mild allergy.

As much as I can avoid vaccinations, I do. My pops got the flu shot back in the Viet Nam era, and it jacked his body up pretty bad, leaving him with diabetes, which killed him years later.

It was mandated for us to get flu shots when I was in the military. One year my arm swelled up so big, I thought they’d mixed up their flu vaccines with their anthrax shots or something.

But I haven’t contracted the flu or taken the flu vaccine since I got out of the military. And my son’s immune system is pretty strong, so I have no worries about him , either.

The SistahChick

How can the flu shot really protect if it only covers a minimal amount of the strains that exist? I wonder what they really protect us from. It just doesnt make since to me. I’ve never had a flu shot and never had the flu. (knocking on wood)