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Step 1
Determine if you are in the high-risk group. Persons who should get the vaccine include people over age 50, pregnant women, children between 6 months and 5 years old, any person with a chronic medical problem and people who live in nursing homes or long term care facilities.
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Step 2
Consider the possible side affects. In some people, the shot can cause redness and soreness around the innoculation site and produce low-grade fever and aches for one or two days. The nasal spray flu vaccine can cause runny noses, headaches, sore throats and coughs.
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Step 3
Notify your physician if you have experienced a severe reaction to the flu vaccine in the past. The flu vaccine is not approved for children under 6 months of age. If you are ill with a fever, you should delay getting the vaccine until your condition improves. You should also tell your doctor if you're allergic to chicken eggs.
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Step 4
Choose the vaccine type based on your age and possible side affects. You can get the flu shot in your arm or elsewhere on your body. If you are between 2 and 49 years of age, and not pregnant, you can take the nasal spray flu vaccine.
Comments
RFerriANP said
on 2/28/2008 Annual flu vaccination should become a standard of good health prevention for nearly everyone. A new vaccine is developed each year in anticipation of the PROABLE flu strains that will be infecting people. Influenza is a deadly disease killing as many as 30,000 Americans each year. Influenza (“the flu”) is NOT the same thing as a really bad common cold (which is typically referred to as the flu). If there aren’t any contraindications to you getting an annual flu shot – get it – IT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE AND THOSE AROUND YOU!
nanomatrix said
on 2/27/2008 If you can avoid the nasal vaccine is it better to?