The flue jab

The effectiveness of the flu jab varies from year to year but I think averages at around 50%.  However, my consultant told me that if you have the jab and do get the flu, the symptoms will be less severe than if you had not had it.

Another doctor told me that by having it each year, you are building up a cumulative immunity.

I am not a doctor - I am just passing on what I have been told. Seek the advice of your GP.

Your doctor will always tell you to have the jab.

Why not ask him if he's had it?

At one time only a third of health professionals took up the offer, but after a campaign last year telling them they should do so to protect their patients they got that up to 70%. 

What about the other 30% who still won't have it?

Of course having the jab, then faking the symptoms of flu is a good excuse to take a week or two off.

No doubt many health workers would find that quite attractive.

Mother in law had flu jab and died within 4 weeks from Pneumonia.

Not saying that was the cause but i will take me chances with my own immune system in the future.

Hate taking drugs/prescriptions unless its absolute necessity.


Home made natural concoctions 4 me.

I remember reading about that last year  NHS staff in Scotland not wanting the flu vaccination and  Sir Bruce Keogh - national medical director of NHS England called for a "serious debate" over whether NHS staff should be forced to have the vaccination. Those doctors and nurses who didn't want the jab probably treat 1000's the patients each year, they know that the patients who choose to get vaccinated are more likely to become sicker in the long run.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-42634781

It's too easy for big Pharma to influence health policy.
All they have to do is to give token jobs to key people on the medical councils, and they have them in their pockets.

had the jab twice, and both times got flu, should have learnt after first time, never again.

Sewer lives again
No one for me to take paracetamol nurse said your arm might be a little sore where you had the jab which I was expecting but only a little
I have been ill all day but feeling a bit better but still very weak

Last two years no problem but this year awful .also my mental state was much worse.
I even got off my bottom and went to an AA meeting as I always feel alot better when I've been .I was that down and weak I dragged myself there

man flu up

When they have to twist the arms of health workers to make they take the jab, that tells us all we need to know.

I have my jab this afternoon, by the sounds of it it might be my last posting.

I have the jab every year and have never had any ill effects . Although this year it did sting for a few seconds .

lovegod

Have been entitled one way or another for years now to have the flu jab but have never bothered. As I get older, this may change but so far so good.

My grandad had piles .my dad had piles.i had piles it's in the family
My grandad was a alcoholic my dad was a alcoholic but didn't know it .I'm a alcoholic
My grandad.my.dad. Myself have depression
And I can see it in one of my daughter's  and my granddaughter who have it

I think in years to come there will be firms who look into peoples family history about their mental and physical family back grounds and sell this information
Then lots of people will be bred along the same lines as horses

If you've got a good bloodline and family history it might cost some women 100s of thousands of pounds to pick the sperm of a thoroughbred male to get a healthy sane baby

In fact millions will pass hands between the very rich

Some rich women and lesbians will say let's save up for a thoroughbred baby and it will be thecnorm to buy one

Do wah, reading over your opening comment, and trying to read between the lines, and make sense of it, it sounds to me like you are delirious,,which is a classic condition of influenza!

I can see in the next few years thoroughbred babies will be on sale to lesbians and gays and anyone who can afford to buy them

We never thought that this country would become an Islamic country.we never believed there would be so much sex on TV .we never believed that gays would be given equal rights so on and so forth a few years ago .but everything changes for money


There will be cheap babies and very expensive babies depending on their bloodline .
This is a cert

Having suffered this hideous illness, lasting three weeks each time, the one potential benefit is weight loss (that of course,
if you have weight to lose)!