PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for March, 2001: Re: Flu Vax

Re: Flu Vax

From: Heidi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:51:21 -0500

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With my visit to see the doctor last Tuesday, the 27th, he started talking to me about the flu vaccination, it seems it's been flying through our town here and hitting everyone, including my obgyn, who just got over it over the past weekend. I told him that I had already had the flu, it rippled through my family about 3 weeks ago. First my oldest daughter, my youngest, my husband, then poor ol' pregnant me, and then my step son. It didn't affect me like it did the rest of my family. I only threw up once and never had any other symptom, not so "poor ol' pregnant me" after all. He said that since I've already had it, that I didn't need to be vaccinated.. Does this sound accurate? I do know the last time I got a flu shot ( I worked in a nursing home) I was sick for a week afterwards. It just so happened I got the flu shot my last night of work, before my vacation.... It was a miserable one.

Heidi

>----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, " <anonymous@obgyn.net> To: "Multiple recipients of list PREGNANCY-BIRTH" <pregnancy-birth@mail.medispecialty.com> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 1:50 AM Subject: Re: Flu Vax

> At Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Lisa wrote:
> >
> >As we are coming into flu season here in Australia a number of people
> >have advised me to have a flu shot. I am 32 weeks pregnant and my
> >doctor has asked me to think about it before I have the shot, she has
> >said that it could be advisable but I need to take into account that
> >results of testing and side effects on pregnant women are not as well
> >known as general patients. Does any one have any input???
> >
> >Thanks
>
> Here in hte USA it is recommended that all pregnant women beyond the
> first trimester have a flu shot
>
> --
> M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG
> South Lake Tahoe, CA
>
> author, Your Over-35 Week-by-Week Pregnancy Guide
>
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