Is she being U? re flu jab.

[MissMap]

My neice had a flu jab last week. She now has a bad sore throat, I think it will develop into a cold and is nothing to do with the flu jab.

One of her friends has just had a baby and my neice is intending to visit them later today. I have advised her that she should not go incase she does have a cold and passes it on to the new mum. My neice says as her symptoms are due to the flu jab she is still going to make the visit.

We await a judgement from the MN jury, thank you.

A week after I had my flu jab I had the same symptoms as your niece and am now on antibiotics because it turned out to be a virus, not the flu and nothing to do with the flu jab. My son also has it and has been admitted to hospital twice with serious breathing difficulties caused by the virus. He hasn't had the flu jab.

I wouldn't go if I were her.

According to NHS website, the flu jab in use in UK contains no live virus and cannot therefore cause influenza.

MissMap is right.

The flu vaccination is an inactive/dead vaccine, which basically means that it cannot cause the flu.

Some vaccines can cause mild symptoms of the illness, but the flu one isn't such a one.

Your niece has a cold, and her friend will kill her if she brings it near a newborn.

The flu jab does not contain anything that could make a person ill. It does not contain live flu virus.

She has a cold.

Sore throat isn't due to the jab, I agree.

As for visiting the baby, well, when the dses were newborns, I'd have prefered really poorly people not to visit, but sore throat wouldn't have bothered me personally. It's the new Mum's call really.

When further dses come along, it is impossible to avoid sore throats and snot

If you have a virus antibiotics won't help.

They've done wonders for the sore throat, nothing at all for the coughing and explosive nose situation. DS needed some kind of steroid medication for his breathing problems.

I'm supposed to have this this avo as am pregnant, hate jabs.

My DH (who never gets ill) has always felt poorly after having his flu jab so I think the vaccine can obviously make people feel ill (even if it's not the virus itself that does it). She should probably phone the new mum and explain the situation to her and see what she says.

You probably won't even feel it Ninky, I hate jabs too but didn't even notice that she'd done mine until she stuck the plaster on.

The flu jab can make you feel a bit crap just from your immune response but the sore throat means it's not that. Dead virus so it doesn't cause flu!!!! She really shouldn't go.

I agree that the sore throat is some other sort of infection and not the flu jag. The 'flu' jag can make you feel a bit hot as your immune system activates and your arm can be a bit sore. I think she should let the mum know she has a sore throat and she can decide if she wants to take the risk.

You'll be fine ninky, I had mine at about 30 weeks.

it's not really a 'jab' Ninky, it's a tiny needle, in and out in a second.......

Agree with all the others, the 'flu jab cannot cause the 'flu, but neither can it stop you catching every other cold-type lurgy that's going around.

Your neice just has a coincidental cold OP, and as you've advised, shouldn't gong visiting a v small baby.

go not gong, d'oh

DN put the visit off until she is better!

Thanks all.