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Re: So, she got a flu shot... now she's sick!!!
A flu shot can not give you the flu, but it can give you flu like symptoms. The flu shot is a dead virus.
The flu like symptoms, such as body aches and a slight temperature, are not from the virus but from your body doing what it's supposed to do. Creating antibodies and Resistance to the strain. If you experience flu like symptoms from a flu shot it is because your body didn't have much resistance to the strain, and is fighting hard to create one. It would be much worse had you caught the live virus.
A flu shot does not guarantee you will not get the flu strain, but it does build a resistance so that if you do get the strain, your body does need to fight so hard to beat it. Sort of a preventive maintenance. It makes the difference between being down for several days or just not feeling up to par.
It takes 2 weeks from the time you're exposed to a flu to show the symptoms. What I see most often is people who say "I got a flu shot last week and now I got the flu." Chances are you either caught the flu before you got the shot, or you're just feeling the effects of your body creating an immunity.
A flu shot can not give you the flu, but it can give you flu like symptoms. The flu shot is a dead virus.
The flu like symptoms, such as body aches and a slight temperature, are not from the virus but from your body doing what it's supposed to do. Creating antibodies and Resistance to the strain. If you experience flu like symptoms from a flu shot it is because your body didn't have much resistance to the strain, and is fighting hard to create one. It would be much worse had you caught the live virus.
A flu shot does not guarantee you will not get the flu strain, but it does build a resistance so that if you do get the strain, your body does need to fight so hard to beat it. Sort of a preventive maintenance. It makes the difference between being down for several days or just not feeling up to par.
It takes 2 weeks from the time you're exposed to a flu to show the symptoms. What I see most often is people who say "I got a flu shot last week and now I got the flu." Chances are you either caught the flu before you got the shot, or you're just feeling the effects of your body creating an immunity.