Well, it looks like the current Big Issue ™ is whether or not to get your child vaccinated against the H1N1 flu. I’m honestly really surprised at the number of parents who are so vehemently against their child getting the H1N1 vaccine, even if they’re not staunchly anti-vaccination. And then I’m more confused when reading discussions about it that it seems like the same parents who are anti-H1N1 vaccination are also the same folks who are paranoid about their child getting sick with H1N1.
“I don’t want my kid catching H1N1 yet I refuse to get them the very vaccination that my prevent it.” Does that line of thinking make sense to you? It doesn’t to me.
For what it’s worth, I think it is in every parents’ nature to be wary of anything that is being put into their child. It is a parents’ job to advocate for their children when they are too small to do so for themselves.
That being said, will The Little Empress receive the H1N1 vaccine? I don’t know — I’ll be asking her doctor what he thinks and then making a judgment call. At the moment, I’m leaning towards yes because while I don’t think that H1N1 is the Killer Flu that everyone seems to be afraid it is (THANKS MEDIA HYPE), it does sound pretty nasty and if I can spare TLE the misery of being sick, why not?
And another thing that just doesn’t make sense to me — parents that carry around anti-bacterials everywhere to “guard against the cold and the flu.” Buh? Hello — the cold and flu are caused by VIRUSES. Anti-bacterial gel won’t stop a virus. Just saying.
One of my sisters got infected with H1N1 or more commonly known as Swine Flu. Fortunately, she did not have very high fever and she was able to recover fast .
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Despite working in public health, I’m a little iffy myself if I should let Connor get the H1N1 shot. However, his pediatrician highly recommended since she saw 2 of her patients get hospitalized from the flu. I’m starting to think too that the H1N1 vaccines made this time around went through a little bit more rigorous process than the ones made in the 70s. So far there hasn’t been bad reports of kids who got the vaccines. Most likely, I will let him get the shot.
We had the H1N1 bug here a few weeks ago. While it certainly didn’t kill us, it did slow us down for awhile. Plus, the little one had the lingering aftereffects of an ear and sinus infection. I don’t know if I would have vaccinated any of us, but I am glad to have it all over and done with!