Flu shot question!?

is it possible to get the flu after you get the flu? because i heard that all the flu shot is, is part of the flu?

Yeah it's like a small dosage of the bug apparently just enough so that your body can learn to fight it. And it's grown in fertilized hens' eggs so if you're allergic to eggs you can't get it. I've gotten it and never got sick from it but I do know people who have. You can check out this site, it tells you a lot more about it.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iyh-vsv/diseases-...

I have never had the flu shot, because of fear of getting the flu. I think you can get some symptoms of the flu after the shot.

the shot used to come out in August and nobody got sick after. you get it in November, everyone is getting sick with something with or without the shot.

i finally got the flu shot last month at work. i asked if it would make me have the flu, since thats the rumor, and the guy tells me absolutely not, unless you are already sick with it, you will be prevented from having it cause your body is tricked by the "dead" virus injected and thinks its already fought it off this year. i have not been sick and feel fine. even the needle didnt hurt it was the thinnest needle i ever seen!

You can not get the same flu twice. If you get the flu again it would have to be a different strain. That's why the shot works, because your body already has the antibodies for the strains in the shot so you can't get those.

Unfortunatly there are several types of flu. Every year the shot is formulated against the ones they think are most likely to be the ones people get. They don't always guess right...

I had the flu (the REAL flu) 22 years ago. Trust me, if you get it for real you'll never forget it! I've gotten the shot EVERY YEAR since then, and I haven't been sick once. No one could ever convince me to skip the shot!

You cannot get the flu from the flu shot. The virus administered in the injection is not even capable of replicating or becoming infectious. The crappiness that you feel after getting the shot is not because "you have the flu" - it is because your body is mounting an immune response to the inactivated flu particles in the injection, and the cytokines (small chemical mediators) released from your white blood cells makes you feel lousy. It's the same reason that you feel lousy when you actually have the flu - only, it doesn't last as long, it doesn't make you contagious, it's not as severe, and it doesn't progress to more dangerous diseases like pneumonia. Much better than getting the actual disease, in my opinion. If you fall under the CDC's criteria for getting a flu shot, go get one. I got mine a couple of days ago. My arm was a little sore, but at least I won't be getting sick, or, more importantly, getting my patients sick this winter.

(One caveat: the flu vaccine administered in the injection only prevents against a few strains of the virus. Because the flu virus mutates very rapidly, it is able to evade the immune system by becoming a new strain. Thus, you may be protected against one strain of the flu by the vaccine, yet contract a virus against which you have no protection. That said, the flu vaccine is changed each year to contain the most predominant strains estimated to inflict the most damage that year. So it is effective.)