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I will not be getting the flu shot, at least until the mercury is removed. The medical establishment seems to biased in favour of all immunizations, they are either brainwashed by the pharmacetical companies or have financial interests??
I work in a hospital and will not be allowed to work if there is an outbreak in my area, if I have not had the flu shot. I am not however having said shot. There are just too many unknowns. I feel the same as the other responders, if you are healthy, your own immune system will not only handle an exposure to the flu but will be improved by it. Look what has happened with the over use of antibiotics.
Always, when I and my son have gotten flu shots we have got the flu or cold because our immune system was supressed .
Since 2005 we decided not to get flu shots, I have never got sick. we decided to have healthy diet more vegetables and less meat and not dairy.. In winter we take more Vitamin D supplements that boost the immune system.
Now, My memorry has been improved. I don't have more any allergical reations, and I have more energy.
In your article I have not given the reader sources of your information that reader could by himslf check if the sources are biast..
All the others never got flu shot or flu - fluke or they don't go out in public. I get the shot every year and have never got the flu either. Guess we're all right.
I have been getting the flu shot every year for the past 8 years, since I was diagnosed with Asthma. The flu shot has not prevented me from getting sick, nor from getting an influenza. This year will be the first year I will forgo the flu shot.
Cutting out dairy (dairy can be deadly for asthmatics because it creates mucus in the lungs) and taking a daily greens supplement to boost my immune system, have kept me much healthier than any flu shot.
I strongly oppose the flu shot for any age. And, no, I will most definitely not be getting one. There is too much evidence supporting it's adverse affects and dangers. Getting the flu once in a while is part of being human, it happens, always did and always will. Why isn't the focus shifted toward natural prevention such as a healthy diet and active lifestyle with lots of vitamins, namely, Vitamin D. I do all of the above and have not had the flu in 10 years or so. Another natural approach to not just flu prevention but prevention of all ailments and diseases is to have a normal body PH balance. With today's North American diet we are far too acidic, which is a breeding ground for so many ailments. Disease can not prosper in an alkaline body environment. I highly recommend that you search the body's alkaline/acid balance online.
I have never had the flu shot, I have not had the flu in 32 years. If you are healthy, you are less likely to get sick. If you get sick, your healthy body will build natural antibodies for further sickness by that particular strain. I don't put chemicals in my body, God created us with natural immune systems and if we look after ourselves, there should be no major issue. So you get the flu one year.....oh well. Stay in bed.
Flu shots---Dr Mendelsohn MD
I never can think about flu shots without remembering a wedding I once attended. Strangely enough, no grandparents were among the participants, and no one who was present seemed to be over 60. When I asked where all the older folks were, I was told they had all received their flu shots a few days before, and they all were at home, recovering from the ill effects of the shots:
The flu vaccine's efficacy and potency still are subjects of great debate, particularly since the strains covered by one year's vaccine often fail to correspond to whatever strains are causing flu at that particular time. The entire effort resembles a game of roulette in which, in any given year, the numbers may or may not match the strains.
We were all afforded a peek into the real dangers of the flu vaccine in 1976 when close governmental surveillance of one strain, the swine flu vaccine, disclosed that 565 cases of Guillain—Barre paralysis were associated with this vaccine, as were the unexplained deaths of 30 elderly persons. One wonders how much more would be known about the ill effects of flu shots if this kind of surveillance had been exercised over everyone who had received other forms of flu vaccine over the years
What's ahead for the future? A vaccine has been developed for Russian flu which Dr. John Seal of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease says may cause the same paralyzing Guillain—Barre syndrome. "We have to go on the basis that any and all flu vaccines are capable of causing Guillain—Barre," Dr. Seal says. Again, we are quick to pull the immunization trigger, but we are slow to examine the consequences of our actions.
i was wondering if there were any concerns regarding too many medications being taken by the masses, weakening the overall ability to fight disease or creating super-strains. i haven't yet had a flu shot as i am young and healthy. thoughts?
I never get the flu shot, I don't think its necessary and I think it's good for people to get sick occasionally. But I don't come to work when I'm sick!!!