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[daddybear1]

most years after my flu jab I seem to catch chest infection about three weeks later anybody got any ideas

[MarieW-F]

As I understand it the flu jab isn't a 'live' vaccine so it doesn't give a dose of the flu. I heard it explained that a small number of people will fall ill afterwards purely because they caught a virus around the same time as the jab and associate it with having it. But its nothing to do with the jab.

3 weeks is a fairly long time, unfortunately its probably just a coincidence that flu jab season coincides with everyone coughing and spluttering and you have been unlucky.

Hope you feel better soon.

Marie x

[velvet55]

Hello daddyheart

Maybe it's because it's that time of year, wherever you do at the moment people are coughing and sneezing.

Velvet xx

[O2Trees]

I agree with the others, probably a coincidence. If you've got it now i hope it clears up asap. Take care

[Azure_Sky]

My infection began 6 days after the flu jab, there people coughing and spreading germs in the surgery. I hear lots of people around my area have this virus.

When you have COPD it is harder to shake off. Antibiotics aren't much use against a virus.