I am 21 weeks pregnant and the doctor has lined me up to have the Swine Flu injection. I asked if I could have the Celvapan and not the Pandemrix. It?s confusing and when I found this site, I am debating on which one to have:
news.sky.com/skynews/H...15405950?f=rss
I heard from a friend that she went to see the Doc and talked in length about having the vaccine and what his advice would be if his wife was pregnant. The Doc advised that he would advise her to have the vaccine, due to 6 pregnant women having died from the swine flue already and they were all healthy.
She raised the concerned of the Pandemrix and the concerns of it containing Mercury and he said he was not concerned as the amount was so small, but he was concerned about the element in the vaccine that can cause the nervous system to attack itself ultimately resulting in paralysis. The research originally used 30 years ago in vaccines suggests that paralysis eventually may go away but he wouldn?t want that risk if he was to take the vaccine.
Apparently it transpired that he would wait 6 months or so before he had the vaccine to see what side effects had occurred after administered to hundreds of pregnant women!! His wife is actually pregnant and she has decided not to take it against his advice to have it!
So what is your take on all of this and why does the government not issue the Celvaplan if desired by pregnant women!
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C1NDY · 20/11/2009 10:36
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