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Can I get the flu from receiving the flu shot?
No, you cannot get the flu from receiving the flu shot. The flu shot contains inactivated virus particles that cannot cause the flu.
How can you Find Out if you ever had a flu shot?
First, there is typically no pressing reason to find out if you had a flu shot in the past. Since you must get flu shot annually, a flu shot history is not important to most people. If you still feel you need to know, you might try calling your primary care provider (current and past), your employee health department (current and past) and the Department of Health to find out if they have records of your receiving a flu shot.
How do you get the flu when you already got a flu shot?
There are many different types of flu and the seasonal flu shot only prevents three of the most likely to be circulating flu viruses. So if you happened to get exposed to a type of flu that wasn't in the vaccination, then you could get sick from it.Another reason might be that you caught the flu before you got the flu shot and so there was not time for the shot to work before you got sick.Another reason might be that you got the shot and then were exposed to the flu before your immune system could give you immunity from the vaccination. It takes around two weeks after getting the vaccination for an adult to have full immunity from it. For children under 10, a series of two vaccinations are needed given approximately a month apart, then it takes another few weeks before the body has developed the full immunity, so exposure during any of those time frames before full immunity can cause illness in those children.
What is a simile for flu shot?
the flu shot was as painful as a bee sting.
You are taking amox-clav can you still get the flu shot?
Yes, you can still get the flu shot. The flu shot should not be gotten if you are currently ill, but if you are on antibiotics, it is OK to get.
Why get a flu shot?
So you don't get the flu.
Should you get a flu shot with a sinus infection?
You have to wait until your better then you get the flu shot
What are the causes to having the flu shot more than once?
I think you mean the effects of being vaccinated more than once? Some feel it may increase risks for multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barré , and other autoimmune disorders, as well as type 1 diabetes in children. If you mean why were you administered more than one flu shot, there could be a number of reasons. Regular annual flu shot& H1N1 could be separate, it could be the 1st one was for different strains, then updated - thus getting another shot, could be the doctor or nurse that gave you the shot was unaware that you had already had the 1st one... If you're talking about why the shot is annual, different flu strains are prevalent, morph, and new types of flu are introduced every year.
Is the Swine Flu shot really a shot?
They don't shoot you, and it isn't a 'shot' of a drink, it's a needle in the arm. In the 2009-2010 flu season there was a mist as well as a shot for the vaccination for swine flu. In the 2010-2011 flu season the vaccine for swine flu protection is included in the one vaccination for the seasonal flu.
Is it safe to get both the seasonal flu shot and the H1N1-09 virus flu shot?
Yes. In fact, now the seasonal flu shots are combined with the H1N1 Virus flu shot, so you don't have to get two.
If you get a swine flu shot will the swine flu disappear in a week?
The swine flu shot is used to prevent the flu, not to treat the flu if you already have it. To treat the flu, antiviral medications are more likely to be prescribed, such as Tamiflu.
Is it a law that Health care workers in Ohio get flu shot?
it's not the law to not have your flu shot
