We all got the regular flu shot. We will all be getting the H1N1, if available. It seems that Long Island is not getting hit too hard with the H1N1 flu since it made it's rounds at the end of last school year. The ped was pretty confident Logan had it and it was awful. I don't want it in my house again.
The FluMist/flu shot is administere for freein our public schools. They send the info home with the children and you have the option to opt out of it (which I did for Daniel only bc his Ped said that because the schools were giving it early this year he would only be 2 weeks since getting some vax so he couldnt get the FluMist at that point). The rest of my kids got the mist at school.
I need to get Daniel another appt to get it from the Ped...when I took him inyesterday, he got one of the last 3 doses of the booster they had and they were out of FluMist....hopefully he won't get sick before I can get him back in.
Lots of kids wearing masks in the waiting room though.
The FluMist/flu shot is administere for freein our public schools. They send the info home with the children and you have the option to opt out of it (which I did for Daniel only bc his Ped said that because the schools were giving it early this year he would only be 2 weeks since getting some vax so he couldnt get the FluMist at that point). The rest of my kids got the mist at school.
I need to get Daniel another appt to get it from the Ped...when I took him inyesterday, he got one of the last 3 doses of the booster they had and they were out of FluMist....hopefully he won't get sick before I can get him back in.
Lots of kids wearing masks in the waiting room though.
This makes me nervous because of the mist's potential for shedding, so the recipients can actually transmit the virus without even having it. And since they don't advise people who have gotten the mist to quarantine themselves, they could very likely be exposing high-risk individuals to the live virus unknowingly.
the kids got the shot mid-sept. dh & i were going to get ours as well, but our dr. ran out. i am planning on checking to see if cvs/wags has any left and if they do, we will just get them there.
Christopher and I got a mist for seasonal flu today. The nurse told us that the mist is good for year where a flu shot is good for 6 months. We will not be getting the H1N1 vaccine.
This was Christopher's first time for a flu shot and the last time I had a flu shot was 5 years ago. With so many people getting sick around us and with Christopher going to preschool 5 days a week, that made my decision for deciding on a flu shot.
