Thank you for that @CrunchyCarrot.
I had one of my DC, who was two at the time, end up in hospital the day after having the Fluenz spray. She was in for three days on oxygen due to wheezing and with a high temp that couldn’t get down for days. They said only that she seemed “very viral”. When I questioned the link to the vaccine I was brushed off with a “don’t be silly/she caught it in the waiting room” type attitude. She’d started to drool at the mouth and become unsteady on her feet about 15 mins after the vaccine, and proceeded to vomiting a few hours later, despite having been perfectly well before that.
There was one young dr, who I was left alone with a one point, who did say to me “I think sometimes we are too quick to trust that vaccines that we give our children”. She had overhead the conversation where my concerns were being brushed off.
I am or always was pro-vaccine, it was the reaction from drs that worried me when I even raised the possibility of a link.
The idea that it couldn’t possibly be connected and wouldn’t even be considered for discussion.
I discovered afterwards that in the clinical trials for that vaccine, some children under two were hospitalised with wheezing - which is why it is not licensed for under 2’s. So, when my just turned 2 year old had that reaction, I still don’t think it was far fetched to consider a link between the two. I reported it through the yellow card scheme myself, and never heard anything back.
I have been wary ever since, not because I wear a tinfoil hat, but because it lead me to question that way adverse reactions are/are not reported.