To not give dc flu jab

[Somepoorbugger]

I didn't let my 7 and 9 year old have the flu jab this year. My reason was that some relatives had it a few years ago and were extremely sick afterwards. Me dp and dc have never had the flu and I probably ignorantly underestimated how nasty it can be.

I've started with a nasty cold this week - don't think it's flu as I'm still functioning just feel crap. But it made me think how terrible I'd feel if the kids did get it. Wibu to not let them have it and can I request it through the GP?

You were being unreasonable to not give them it, the adults that were poorly were likely going to be poorly regardless, the adult version of the flu vaccine isn’t live and can’t give you flu.

You’re daft

YABU - people die of flu.

Flu kills people every year in the uk.

Are they eligible for it on the nhs?

I wish I could put into words how hateful I think you are being. Not only to your children but to all of us who may die if we get flu

We don’t ever vaccinate ours for flu. They are fully vaccinated otherwise

Yabu. Our school still hasn't had their supply due to lack of supply. 75% of the school have been off for about 2 weeks. Staff inuded and parents. Pretty sure it's flu. I had it aswell thought I was dieing. Kids ended up in a and E. One poor lad had a seizure from his temperature. Vaccinate your kids ffs

I admitted I've probably being ignorant but please do not label me as hateful towards my children. I saw how poorly my relatives were after the flu jab and it put me off. I only ever have my kids best interests at heart and if I can get them it through the gp then I will.

Flu jab cannot make someone ill. It's just a coincidence and they would have been brewing it before the jab.

I've had it every year for 20 years as have immune system problem and worst I've had was an achey arm. The one year I didn't have it I got flu twice

Another one here who says YABU. For the reasons the others have said. Why didn't you read up about it before deciding?

I've had flu. Proper flu and it's nothing like a bad cold. Ring your surgery and see if they can still be done. Unfortunately though, many surgeries don't have stock of the children's vaccine as they are usually done en masse at school

Takes about 2 weeks for it to kick in anyway op. You dont get flu from the flu jab. I had zero side effects.

@Instagrrr why don’t you vaccinate for the flu? It can and does kill children

YABVVVU. The side effects (which are rare) are very mild. You also can’t definitively say that they were the result of the vaccine. It’s cough and cold season so the chances of getting sick around the same time of year that you have the vaccine are extremely high. However, the average cough or cold is totally incomparable to the flu. People massively underestimate how awful flu is. You would be totally out of action for a week or more with flu. A lot of people claim to have flu when they just have a cold which leads to a belief that it’s not that bad.

Also, whatever strain of flu your relatives were vaccinated against and (possibly) reacted to would not be the same strain contained in this years vaccine.

I know a lot of people who have had the vaccine this year and not a single one of them have had side effects.

Get your kids vaccinated and stop being so selfish.

Mine have had seazures after vaccines in the past so I am wary about giving them. flu chap will protect a strain but your child can still get flu as they can get a different strain. Sono Your not being unreasonable.

I understand your concern op as several people I know have been quite ill following the flu jab.
It doesn't apply to anyone in our family but if it did I'd be looking at the evidence and timing the jab for when any subsequent illness wouldn't be too problematic.

YaNbu I wouldn't give it to mine either

The number of bloody times you have to tell actual functioning adults - THE FLU JAB DOES NOT MAKE YOU ILL!
For crying out loud!

Op, you cannot, absolutely cannot, get flu from m the jab.
That is the kind of arguments that antifaxers use.

Like all jabs, the jab is a dead for us that just encourage antibodies.

I had really bad flu when I was a child and Beijing flu was doing the rounds, think was 92 or 93. I was off school for two weeks and when I did go back I was so tired I had to do half days and go home for a sleep in the afternoon. During the worst of it I was hallucinating, couldn't eat, my mum could only get me to drink by using my toddler sibling's sippy cup to give me small amounts at a time, and I remember my dad lifting me into a lukewarm bath to try bring my temperature down and being too tired to even protest about it.

I have the flu jab every year and my DC get the nasal spray.

I think you are BVU not to have vaccinated them in the first place. My ds2 got flu last week (not in an age range that gets vaccinated and chemist's don't do jabs on children), and he is fit and healthy and it wiped him out. Totally. He slept pretty much solid for 3 days and it took a week for him to feel better enough to even do anything that didn't require minimum effort.

If you've ever had flu, you'd know how ill it makes you and would vaccinate everytime. You can still get flu if you've had the flu jab, there are so many different strains it doesn't vaccinate them against every one but it's better than nothing. People die from flu

Agh I don’t know why this always gets said but YOU CANT GET FLU FROM THE FLU JAB!

Vaccinate your kids or don’t but come up with a better reason for that FFS

I think it’s wise to get it as the flu does kill people. My friend is a doctor and saw a man in his 30s nearly die from it last week. Imagine if your kids got it and then passed it on to someone with a weakened immune system who couldn’t fight it off.

Thank you I've accepted I'm very stupid. But I'm not selfish or hateful.

That's OK, you'll just get the child with the 40 Celsius fever, the headache, the sweating, the cough, the sore throat, the body pain, the dizziness and potential seizures from the uncontrollable temperature that's going round right now. If you're lucky and they don't actually end up in intensive care from it.

It's a nasty one this year.

and your relatives probably already had their illnesses incubating at the time of their vaccination