DD is unwell after flu vaccine and seems to have flu...

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Can this be a coincidence?

I took DD (2.9) for the flu nasal spray on Tuesday. She was absolutely fine when we got there.

It was an early evening appointment. On the way home in the car, she was unusually quiet. When we stopped the car she was sitting with a mouth full of saliva looking as if she was going to be sick (it was a short journey & she doesn't suffer from car sickness). I took her inside and she said she was okay but she was very quiet & also seemed a bit unsteady on her feet at first. I kept a close eye on her (in case she was having a reaction & I had to drive her back to the surgery). After about 30 minutes she perked up a bit, then went to bed at the usual time.

On Wednesday she was quiet & sat on the sofa for most of the day with a slight temp & a runny nose. She had calpol.

Thursday was worse. DD complained that the back of her neck was sore. She still had a severely runny nose, watery eyes, started coughing, was still a bit hot and was not herself.

Today, just the same except the cough is a lot worse & she has a slight wheeze as well. She has been really clingy and.tkept asking me to "take the cough away" . She has spent the day lying with her head on me.

She went to bed as usual & then woke at midnight, vomiting everywhere & burning up. She's gone back to sleep after being cleaned up and given Calpol. I'm still awake because I can hear her coughing constantly & am worried that she is going to be sick again. I also feel very guilty that I took her for the vaccine. No-one we know has had flu, DD is fit normally and doesn't pick much up. I know she could have picked it up but it seems such a coincidence when she was perfectly well beforehand.

Her younger sister (9 months) has also woken tonight with a temperature, her nose is running & she has started to cough.

Now, this may be a silly question... but I will ask anyway..as DD1 seems to have developed flu symptoms after the vaccine, is it possible that DD2 has caught it from her? Common sense tells me that this can'be possible but I can't help wondering.

I looked at the NHS website for info & I noticed that about 10 people have posted on the page, saying that their children were very ill after the vaccine, with high temperatures, vomiting & flu-like symptoms.

I am so upset with myself for just going along after receiving the letter. If I'd looked at the website first then I would have had second thoughts.

I’m posting on this as I gave my daughter the flu spray. I wasn’t told that she would then develop flu three days later. I called the doctor and they told me it is perfectly normal. Well a heads up would have been nice!!

Now, two weeks later we both have flu, the chills, the aching. She had dangerously high temperatures, struggling to want to eat. She’s been ill since Tuesday, it’s now Saturday, she is still ill.

I feel frustrated that I ever gave her that flu spray. I also got a letter sent to me and thought I had to give her it to protect her but it has done no such thing. I realise her second flu must be a different strain but sad that the initial spray made her ill and then did her no good in protecting her from the flu we have now 😥

My DD had her flu nasal spray at school last week. It's the first time she's ever had it - I had some concerns about it, but was persuaded this year by medical friends.

She started coughing and had a sore throat yesterday, and today is much worse with a high temperature. I would definitely have my suspicions that it has been caused by the vaccine, but her friend was off school last week with something similar (missed her spray) so the likelihood is that DD has just picked up a flu-like bug that's doing the rounds. There are so many bugs around at this time of year that it's impossible to know whether it's a reaction to the vaccine or a bug picked up normally.

Hope your DDs are much better soon OP!

Too much of a coincidence yet they insist the flu vaccine won't give you flu! I have heard of people having the same so I guess they don't tell you or nobody would want the jab!

The vaccination isn't meant to actually give you the real flu though?!

The nasal spray contains a weakened but live form of what ever flu viruses they anticipate will be prevalent in the coming months. They do say it doesn't cause flu in healthy people, but also advise that anyone who's had is stays away from anyone with a weak immune system as there's a risk of passing on flu to them.
Both my DC (and almost half of the school) have flu symptoms (fevers of 39+, sore throats, coughs, headaches, vomiting, runny noses...) less than a week after they were all given the spray.
I'm sure it's a coincidence, but you can see why people don't trust the vaccine. Even if it's a coincidence rather than a reaction to the spray it just goes to show that there are so many flu-like viruses about that it's pointless trying to immunise against them.

My ds has the vaccine every year as has health issues and a heart condition. Never has a reaction but they've both had illness after illness, since half term.