flu shot question

[thereishope]

I didn't want to just give an opinion or guess on this one so I looked it up. One website said the child isn't contagious. (Just stating what I found, not saying I agree with that).But then another one said this...

 

"From the insert (of FluMist):

 

Due to the possible transmission of vaccine virus, vaccine recipients or their parents/guardians should be advised that vaccine recipients should avoid

close contact (e.g., within the same household) with immunocompromised individuals for at least 21 days."

 

So that leads me to believe that a child receiving FluMist may be contagious for us to 21 days. Going to school is the same things as living with someone. So, I'm going to give my opnion now...

 

Now, realistically you cannot pull your children out of school for a month. I THINK I would continue to send my son to school. I suppose I can look into this futher and find out how long it takes for FluMist to actually "vaccinate" the child. The time leading up to it is probably when they are most contagious.

 

Do the parents have to sign a waiver alowing the child to be vaccinated? Is it done during school hours or on school grounds after hours?

 

 

 

the boys shcool is scheduled to get the flu mist should I keep him and his brother home that day???

 

Deanna

[Kayanne]

the boys shcool is scheduled to get the flu mist should I keep him and his brother home that day???

 

Deanna

 

They can't just do that without you signing some release, right? I hope so.

 

Karen

[dee45]

Hi,

all kids need to have a consent signed.

 

Deanna

[kim]

Just posted this on TS forum and pulled up a thread to leave here too.

 

I wanted to add one thing though. Isn't it interesting how many people in this study showed antibodies? We've been told that this virus has circulated all summer, with outbreaks at summer camps etc. Isn't it logical to think that some of what we're seeing now is H1N1?

 

excerpt from link below:

 

At baseline, 76 of 240 subjects (31.7%) had antibody titers of 1:40 or more on hemagglutination-inhibition assay

 

The above comments are from the recently completed clinical trial for H1N1 in healthy adults in Australia. Although cases with confirmed pandemic H1N1 were excluded from the study, over 31% of the participants had protective antibody prior to the first infection, signaling widespread influenza in undiagnosed adults.

 

 

copy of post

 

I took my oldest son to Physician assistant a couple of days ago. He had a sore throat, head cold which moved into his chest, body aches etc. She said he had about 50% reduced lower lung something (don't know if she said sounds?) She wanted to do a breathing treatment to rule out pneumonia. I told her he didn't react well to Albuterol and they were out of another drug, so she just kind of dropped it. He seems to be recovering well. I really only took him to rule out strep.

 

My youngest son who is more prone to pneumonia is going today. He has the same symptoms, only he isn't saying that it's hard for him to take a deep breath (older son said it was mildly hard for him). I have read one of the dangers of H1N1 is that it seems to infect in the deeper part of the lungs. Again, I'm taking younger son mostly to make sure there is no sign of strep, which as Colleeen pointed out, they are now saying that coinfections seem to be the culprit with severe H1N1 and related deaths. Younger son said that there are a lot of kids with strep at his school. Fever has not been an issue althought oldest said he thinks he had one in the night that broke. Youngest is normal this morning.

 

The PA shared that she had done her first H1N1 swab on a patient. She said the reason she swabbed this lady was because of all the symptoms + FEVER. She was negative, but again, I have read that the quick swabs are producing a lot of false negatives. After reading the article below, I'm wondering what everyone has????????

 

bolding mine/excerpt

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/09220901...1_Trial_Ab.html

 

Commentary

 

Widespread Pandemic Antibody Confounds Clinical Trial

Recombinomics Commentary 16:02

September 22, 2009

 

 

Data on symptomatic patients without fever suggests the frequency of infection without fever is above 50%. 30% of initial lab confirmed patients in Mexico, who were hospitalized because of breathing difficulties, did not have a fever. In Chile, the frequency of confirmed patients without fever was 50%. A recent study of transmission during a plane flight found that 36% of lab confirmed cases did not have a fever.

 

 

Thought others might want to read this too. I have also read that resveratrol blocks infectivity, but didn't save that link. Looks like it would work prior to being infected tho or very early into infection, as is said with Tamiflu.

 

 

Elderberry flavonoids bind to and prevent H1N1 infection in vitro.

 

Roschek B Jr, Fink RC, McMichael MD, Li D, Alberte RS.

Phytochemistry. 2009 Jul;70(10):1255- 61.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=A...565eb910dd3fbfe

[familyof4]

My pediatrician's office said that all of the flu they are seeing in my area right now is H1N1 not seasonal flu. They have had a delay in shipmnt for the thermisol free flu shots but told me absolutely not to have either of my kids given flu-mist because they each have been dianosed with an autoimmune disorder. (Both have Celiac's)

 

If I can get the thermisol free shot for the seasonal flu, I will have my kids vaccinated. We did this last year and didn't have any noticable issues or side effects with my pandas son.