The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

It's interesting how people react differently, or appear to react to the flu vaccine.

Some schools of thought say that having the vaccine has just coincided with the person going down with a bad cold or somesuch, but the two events get melded into a cause and effect thing.
The vaccines are given at that time of year when the temperature is changing and there may be more rhinoviruses around, and catching a bad cold or a cough at the time of the vaccine may seem like a cause and effect.

Some people may be reacting to the carrier. I think the vaccine is developed in egg, so there may be a latent sensitivity to that.

However, oher schools of thought say that getting a dose of influenza is so potentially dangerous for people with certain conditions or over a certain age that even if there were a reaction to the vaccine, that is better than getting the influenza.



Whatever the answer, I always have anything that's going! I'm very prone to respiratory problems, so avoiding even a small amount of extra illness is worth it for me.

I've been having the flu vaccines for years, free due to having asthma, and I can't remember having a directly related reaction, other than maybe a bit of localised soreness/aching of the arm. I have been ill after having it, but it was at a time when I was having a lot of illnesses, one after the other, so can't definitely link it to the vaccine.

I deffo didn't get any reaction when I had both the flu vaccine and the pneumonia vaccine at the same time.


I'll do a bit of googling and see if I can find anything...........




Edit.... this is what the NHS page on reactions to the flu jab says......

"You can't catch flu from the flu jab

The flu jab cannot cause flu because there are no active viruses in the vaccine.
If you have what you think is flu after vaccination, it may be that you have caught a flu-like virus that isn't really flu, or you may have caught flu before your flu vaccination had taken effect."


"Flu vaccines can protect against three or four types of flu virus (usually two A types and one or two B types)."
For most flu vaccines, the strains of the viruses are grown in hens' eggs. The viruses are then killed (deactivated) and purified before being made into the vaccine.
Because the injected flu vaccine is a killed vaccine, it cannot cause flu."


"You may experience soreness and/or swelling in your arm at the injection site after getting a flu jab. Some people have cold-like symptoms, including a mild fever, sniffles, headache, runny nose, sore throat, cough and muscle aches for a day or two after getting the flu jab.26 Jun 2017"

vivatifosi

I may get the jab this year as the strain that they think will come here has already started in Australia, so the jabs should be accurate this year.

I am eligible as I work with the public. They can be germy little blighters. I got community acquired pneumonia a couple of years back.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

DS2 is less academic, he practises the max grade for minimum effort strategy. It seems to pay off well.



I have heard of people feeling so ill after the jab that they regretted it.

michaels may be most interested in this. Quite a few of the small/ medium sized energy companies pay interest on credit balances. I'm switching to Ovo and they pay 3%-5% depending on how ling you have been with them, couple that with a Satander 123 or natwest rewards account and you receive 2% on the payments too. So netting 5-7% on credit balances. usually a restriction on the balance, Ovo is £1k but that interest rate looks good.

SC. It will surprise you to know I had looked into this although hadn't thought about combining with Santander 1-2-3 as it is trickier to make the overpayment by DD than via other routes I would have thought. The max positive balance clauses seemed to make it hard to make the sums work - unlike bank accounts I don't think it is possible to have accounts with multiple suppliers in order to keep a positive balance with each....

...although I do always check when switching whether duel fuel or each of gas and leccy with separate suppliers gives the cheapest price, a few months ago there was a decent saving from splitting suppliers but now the prices seem within 20 quid of each other pa.

I need to switch at the start of October. Looking at a minimum 20% price rise, my fix last year was a good one and it turns out, well worth paying the £25 per fuel cost to switch 6 months early last time.

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

I may get the jab this year as the strain that they think will come here has already started in Australia, so the jabs should be accurate this year.

I am eligible as I work with the public. They can be germy little blighters. I got community acquired pneumonia a couple of years back.

I always wonder if it is a bit chicken and egg - if the vaccine is for the 'right' strain then by definition there will be less of that strain circulating which may allow other non-vacinated strains to appear more virulent/common.

Pyxis

How did it go, Sue?

Are you ok?

Conrad

vivatifosi wrote: »

I may get the jab this year as the strain that they think will come here has already started in Australia, so the jabs should be accurate this year.

I am eligible as I work with the public. They can be germy little blighters. I got community acquired pneumonia a couple of years back.

I learned a few years back that tear ducts are the main entry point with no defences unlike mouths and noses. I stopped touching my eyes when out of the house, it's harder than you might imagine, but since then I swear I've contracted fewer colds.

Observe how often people touch and rub thier eyes, it's quite something.

cmazza

Hello, hope you don't mind me crashing your thread.

GDB2222

Hello. Crash away!

GDB2222

Weird people at Amazon. I noticed something I recently bought has gone down £2 and asked for the difference back. I got an email saying they can't do that, but giving me £5 as a goodwill gesture. I only asked for £2, so why give me £5? Weird, weird, weird!

i have to get up in a few hours, go to the airport, fly to Europe, have a one hour meeting, go back to the airport, fly home. I suppose the personal touch is better than Skype, but this is bloody stupid if you ask me.

SingleSue

Pyxis wrote: »

How did it go, Sue?

Are you ok?

He didn't want me to leave.

He struggled last night after we left (I had a friend drive us up and back), so consequently, there were lots of phone calls and he hid himself away in his room all night.

Today I had to navigate him around the supermarket via phone as of course, their Morrisons is set out differently to our Morrisons and he had a little freak out about it.