'Flu jab for 3 year old

pukkamum

LEJC wrote: »

I believe there is a vaccine suitable for everyone....some are able to get that jab free by meeting certain criteria...for the rest I think its £8.00 a shot at a tesco pharmacy.

it is indeed personal choice and you are very welcome to your opinions and beliefs...although your comment earlier about waiting to only give it to your child once you have heard of complications affecting her age group etc did strike a chord with me....several years ago my son was struck down with swine flu and hospitalised because clearly someone he came into contact with didnt choose to have a vaccine at the time of quite a major outbreak.

How many people are going to go and pay for the vaccine though, a family of 5 nearly £50 not money I have.
Swine flu was known to be very dangerous with severe complications.

pukkamum

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

How is it ever going to be taken up by everyone - and it's available upon request for free if you are in a high risk complications group (although you can't always have it if you're already very immunocompromised - I haven't been able to for the last couple of years) - and anybody else can get it through work or by popping into Boots or Superdrug, IF, when it is being offered, people say, well, I won't do unless everybody else does?

But how many people will do this? Until it's offered to everyone on the nhs the majority will not do it.

GwylimT

pukkamum wrote: »

How many people are going to go and pay for the vaccine though, a family of 5 nearly £50 not money I have.
Swine flu was known to be very dangerous with severe complications.

So if someone in your family needed dental work costing £50 you would just say no? You cannot put a price on health.

Gigglepig

pukkamum wrote: »

I didn't say they were putting childrens lives at risk by giving the vaccine, I pointed out that until everyone regardless age is given it it's rather pointless.
Do I think pharmaceutical companies put profit over people?
Damn right I do.
I didn't say all people who vaccinate are paranoid.

Vaccines are very clearly not pointless, take a look at how some very nasty major diseases have been kept in check or at least drastically reduced.

What the pharma companies intentions are is fairly irrelevant, since medicinal products including vaccines are approved by government agencies that presumably put people over profit...

LEJC

pukkamum wrote: »

How many people are going to go and pay for the vaccine though, a family of 5 nearly £50 not money I have.
Swine flu was known to be very dangerous with severe complications.

having seen my son in pain...I would!

Gigglepig

pukkamum wrote: »

How many people are going to go and pay for the vaccine though, a family of 5 nearly £50 not money I have.
Swine flu was known to be very dangerous with severe complications.

Complete bargain in my eyes if it might reduce the chance of ending up in bed for weeks, often with additional complications like pneumonia... Even "normal" flu can be horrid and it can take ages to feel back to full strength afterwards.

pukkamum

GwylimT wrote: »

So if someone in your family needed dental work costing £50 you would just say no? You cannot put a price on health.

Er no because the dental work that needs doing isn't going to go away, the flu will, unless you are compromised.
More needs to be done about the prevention of spreading the flu, better hygiene, people staying home from school, work, nursery etc if they have the flu.
I have seen countless people at work with full blown flu and countless kids sent to school and nursery with it.

pukkamum

Gigglepig wrote: »

Complete bargain in my eyes if it might reduce the chance of ending up in bed for weeks, often with additional complications like pneumonia... Even "normal" flu can be horrid and it can take ages to feel back to full strength afterwards.

But when was the last time you had real flu as opposed to a heavy cold?
None of my children have, the last time dh and I had it was 12 yrs ago, can't remember the last time any of my close friends and family had it.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

pukkamum wrote: »

But when was the last time you had real flu as opposed to a heavy cold?
None of my children have, the last time dh and I had it was 12 yrs ago, can't remember the last time any of my close friends and family had it.

Just before I started getting the flu jab, strangely enough.

Not immunocompromised at the time, either. But the pneumonia still nearly killed me.

Gigglepig

Hiddenidenity wrote: »

My two year old was invited to have it too.

She won't be though, just like any other immunizations.

Any immunisations? Oh I see, you probably the good old days, when smallpox for example took millions of lives.... More TB, polio, diptheria, tetanus and measles... Such fun.