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However, they believe that unless the vaccine can be "proven 100% safe and 100% certain there is no egg protein" they won't take it.
I reiterate, it's hard to have a rational conversation with irrational people.
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"We are healthy and get lots of sleep and have good immune systems" was what I got.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/10/27/frustraglio-h1n1-toronto-hockey113.html
"A 13-year-old Toronto boy, described as "healthy as can be," has died of the H1N1 virus."
There maybe some reasonable rationales for not getting your children vaccinated. This is not one of them.
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<<Premier Dalton McGuinty expressed sympathy for the family, calling Evan's death a "terrible tragedy."
Health Minister Deb Matthews called it a "very, very sad case" that emphasizes the importance of getting swine flu shots.
If people don't "get it" after reading that article, I guess there really is no hope for them. Very sad. My two teenaged boys are supposed to get their shots today at school.
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He and his wife will not vaccinate their kids for H1N1 as they fear they may develop an egg allergy.
Fear they may DEVELOP an egg allergy? It is one thing to be concerned if your kid already HAS an egg allergy, but you arent going to DEVELOP one by being shot with protein. Unless they are already carrying around an epipen for each kid specifically for egg allergy ....GAH!!
My son has an egg sensitivity and he will get the vaccine. He got the flu shot last year and I know what will happen. He'll turn into a raging beast and be slightly uncomfortable for about 24 hours. Grandma will be pissed that he will be cranky for 2 of the 4 days she is here.
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I just had a conversation with a neighbor about egg allergy -- she was under the impression that they are common because so many folks claim an egg allergy. My husband says he's 'allergic' to eggs, because scrambled eggs make him queasy. He seems to manage to eat cake just fine though.
Our neighbor's little girl (9 years old) is in the hospital with pneumonia secondary to H1N1. She seems fine -- breathing room air -- but I think they'd have happily skipped the hospital stay if the vaccine had been available earlier.
source: CDC
So it's not so much the flu that is deadly, it's going to hospital.
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I just had a conversation with a neighbor about egg allergy -- she was under the impression that they are common because so many folks claim an egg allergy. My husband says he's 'allergic' to eggs, because scrambled eggs make him queasy. He seems to manage to eat cake just fine though. Our neighbor's little girl (9 years old) is in the hospital with pneumonia secondary to H1N1. She seems fine -- breathing room air -- but I think they'd have happily skipped the hospital stay if the vaccine had been available earlier.
I know several people who are egg sensitive which is what I label my son. No histamine reaction, but eggs cause severe intestinal distress (to which I say - and you are avoiding the flu SHOT because you cant DIGEST eggs?) or behavioral in my sons case and a few others (hmmm death vs. raging temper tantrum...lemme think......)
Well yes, clearly. 20% of pregnant women who go into the hospital with H1N1 die. Very few who do not go into the hospital die.
Actually around here they are begging you to not come in to the hospitals and clinics unless you have a fever above X, or above Y for more than Z days (all of which varies by age and risk group) or significant respiratory distress. I dont many of the health care workers in Oregon have been vaccinated yet.
Fear they may DEVELOP an egg allergy? It is one thing to be concerned if your kid already HAS an egg allergy, but you arent going to DEVELOP one by being shot with protein. Unless they are already carrying around an epipen for each kid specifically for egg allergy ....GAH!! My son has an egg sensitivity and he will get the vaccine. He got the flu shot last year and I know what will happen. He'll turn into a raging beast and be slightly uncomfortable for about 24 hours. Grandma will be pissed that he will be cranky for 2 of the 4 days she is here.
YEAH, I even posted a link to a REALY STUDY that has been done to test the safety in people WITH egg allergies. So he dropped that subject and moved to "the government is lying to us and media just out to scare us." I told him if the gov't is lying is his pediatrician going to lie? CALL HIM. So he called the doc, who told him to get his kids vaccinated but that the likelihood of CATCHING H1N1 was no more likely than regular flu. So this genius comes back and says I was wrong, his kid is no more likely to catch H1N1 than the regular flu. I pointed out I had said he was more likely to DIE if he got it, not anything about just catching it. Finally he came back with "a coworker at work got the flu vaccine several weeks ago, now he has pneumonia from the vaccine."
Needless to say I gave up. And this guy is an engineer.
His final rant was that it's a gov't conpiracy because there is not enough vaccine to go around so they are purposely working us up. I did not bother to point out it is a modern marvel that this virus was discovered in April and we already have MILLIONS of doses shipping on a brand new vaccine.