Is the flu jab as effective as the Nasal spray in children?

[Viv0321]

Is the flu jab as effective as the Nasal spray in children?

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Anyone? I can’t seem to find any information that’s not conflicting?

I always thought the flu jab was more effective than the spray, because they give the jab rather than the spray to more medically vulnerable children and I thought this must be because it's more efficient?

They give it to medically vulnerable DC who cannot receive live attenuated vaccines, as the jab is a killed stain and therefore safer.

I thought they were all much of a muchness in terms of effectivemess

I Don't know but the jab bloody hurts this year. Couldn't even touch my own arm for 2 days.

Thanks everyone.

Kill- doesn’t sound good

I had mine first thing Monday morning and my arm was back to normal by yesterday.

My arm is always sore

No the nasal spray is more effective in children.

Children that can’t have a live attenuated vaccine receive an injected inactivated version. They don’t receive an injection because it’s “better” but because it’s safer for them personally.

Sidge- can I ask how you know it’s more affective please?

@Viv0321 research has consistently demonstrated that children tend to respond better to LAIV (nasal flu vaccine) than the injected inactivated vaccine.

The Green Book (our public health immunisation “bible” states -

In 2012, JCVI recommended that the programme should be extended to all children aged two to less than seventeen years old (JCVI, 2012). JCVI advised that the vaccine of choice for the extension to the programme should be the live attenuated intranasal influenza vaccine (Fluenz Tetra®) given the evidence of superior effectiveness in young children, particularly after a single dose, and the potential protection against drifted strains. The route of administration also makes LAIV an easier vaccine to administer and more acceptable to parents and children when compared to an injectable vaccine.

Thankyou

When I was a child we didn't have the flu nasal spray.
My concern is that my children are offered it and have it at school age, but when they leave school and are no longer eligible, will they be more prone to picking up flu as their bodies have not built up a natural immunity?

They’ll have antibodies from the vaccination & they can pay for a jab. It’s not prohibitively expensive.

Same as all the other childhood disease vaccinations