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WHO SHOULD DEFINITELY GET THE FLU SHOT…
- Adults and children with chronic heart or lung problems
- Diabetics
- People over 60 years old
- Adults and children with kidney, blood or immune system problems
- Family members of any of the above groups
WHO SHOULD NOT HAVE THE FLU SHOT?
We cannot administer the flu shot for patients with the following risk complications:
- Those with an allergy to eggs, chicken, neomycin or formaldehyde
- Those with a fever or acute infectious disease
- Those with a history of a bad reaction to the flu shot in the past
- Those with a history of Guillain Barre Syndrome
CHECK WITH YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE GETTING A FLU SHOT, IF
- You are pregnant
- You’re nursing a baby
- You have any kind of immunodeficiency
SIDE EFFECTS OF THE FLU SHOT
- Minor soreness, swelling or redness at the site of injection
- Rare with our particular vaccine, which is an inactivated split virus and cannot cause the flu: fever, weakness, trembling, fatigue, headache, sweating, muscle aches
- Very rare: pain along nerve, convulsions, thrombocytopenia, allergic reaction, vasculitis, neurological abnormalities.
Learn more about flu vaccination on our website.