Snot: It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore |
| Published: January 14, 2008, 9:36 am |
| Tags: health wellness, mommy family, flu, flu vaccine, shot, vaccine |
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Hello, world. It's still flu season. According to the CDC, 5-20% of the U.S. population gets the flu each year, with a higher percentage of that number being children. That translates into around 15-60 million people. This is my favorite description of a sick family thus far. the children's school holiday activities have mostly consisted of barfing, coughing, wiping snot on their pajama sleeves, tossing phlegm-soaked tissue balls into waste baskets and profuse night-sweating. Aaaaah, yeah. I've often wondered whether those flu vaccines really work, but I get one every year because I live with a three-and-a-half-year-old little girl. And what if there are crazy-whack-funky side effects like this from Crystal? I took the girls for flu vaccinations this afternoon. Last year after Madeline got hers, she got shingles. (Yes, 3 year old kids can get shingles, who knew?) Evidently the shot had re-activated her chicken pox vaccine. We caught it early enough (within 72 hours) [ Full article ] |
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