Fever due to Flu Jab..

[charisann93]

Hi, I had a flu jab on Wednesday & im 6+5.. I have a temp of 37.1, is it safe to take paracetamol during first trimester?

Have any of you taken it during your first 12 weeks??

I'm more concerned about the high temp harming the baby.

Is the flue jab meant to cause a fever? I don’t know the answer. Call your local pharmacist for medication advice.

Personally I been told never to take ibuprofen and paracetamol is safe.

Is that a type OP? 37.1 is a completely normal temperature😊

You can take paracetamol but you don’t need to with a temp of 37.1!

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Paracetamol is safe but 37.1 isn't a fever.

Also I have no idea of a fever is a side effect of the flu jab, but regardless, if you do get a temperature of 37.8 or above then you need to treat it as possible covid.

37.1 is not a high temp as others have said. No need for paracetamol.

Hi @charisann93 I've recently had my flu jab and the pharmacist said a slight temperature is fairly common for a couple of day after and that paracetamol is fine.

I had mine yesterday and the pharmacist said I might get a fever.

Thank you all, my temp has risen to 37.5, and I've just taken 1 500mg paracetamol. I'm just really over worrying about everything and because my temp was 36.1 yesterday (normal) I panicked when it was this high today. I feel like having the flu jab has caused more issues than it's preventing!

Take another 500mg, 1g every 4-6 hours is the recommended dose😊 37.5 is higher side of normal so just recheck your temp an hour after paracetamol and just keep an eye. It’s not uncommon to have a small reaction to an immunisation, it’s not a live vaccine so it won’t have given you an illness, your body is just reacting to the injection. I always get a really hot, solid patch on my arms for a day or so after, al sounds very normal.

Tbh, I'd assume your measurement of 36.1 yesterday was wrong - I think that would be very low for an adult. My normal temp is 37.5 although I appreciate I run quite warm (comes in handy when I want antibiotics for a throat infection, less useful when they want to give my newborn baby a course of antibiotics because my temp was 37.5 during labour...).

My average temp is between 36.2-36.5 (I only know this because we have to have an average temperature known at work for all adults and children. However I wouldn’t worry if your temperature is 37.5 as that is around the average. I’d probably just step away from the themometer if I was you....

37.5 is a perfectly normal temperature. It’s not even classed as high, let alone a fever. The flu jab has definitely not caused “issues”

I had projectile vomiting after mine, 12 times in 12 hours!

My temp has been over 37 since I've been pregnant. It's partly what made me think I should take a test!
(My DD likes to play doctors a lot so she checks my temp at least 4 times a week, I'm not a thermometer fiend!)

I was warned that the flu jab may give me a fever (it didn't fortunately) that said paracetamol is safe - I had to take a few doses in my first trimester due to migraines.

My midwife told me the flu jab was not a live vaccine so if you became I'll following it, you had something else brewing.

Normal temp is anything up to 37.8

You don’t really have to take paracetamol unless you feel crap to be honest

Not sure what flu jab people are having but it's not a live vaccine 🤣🤣

37 is not even a high temperature, regardless of what your normal temperature is, and it's definitely not a fever.