Flu Shots

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Originally Posted by kokopup

I am allergic to the egg serum used in all such shots.

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You know what is interesting -- this is the reason so many people are allergic to peanuts and eggs -- because they use it in the vaccinations. Your body builds up an immune response to the disease and in turn may also build up a response to the egg serum or peanut plant in the vaccine. I heard a rumor last year that due to the severity of peanut allergies they plan on not growing diseases on peanut plants anymore, and using egg serum in all of these.

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And like my doctor told me: you cannot get the flu from a flu shot!

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See everyone in my family who gets the flu shot every year, always gets the flu. I don't know why they bother, especially my mother and brother -- they've been getting the flu shot for the last 11 years and have still ended up with the flu each year (and soon after vaccination, while their immune system is down). They only throw so many strains into one vaccination, and most of them are last year's bugs -- chances are it might not be the strain you run into!