flu spray for children

[Pekingese]

Hi all, My 2 year old granddaughter is having the nasal flu spray. I was wondering if it’s safe to be around her?

[lankisterguy Volunteer]

Hi Pekingese,

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If you look at this pinned post about vaccinations: healthunlocked.com/cllsuppo...

You can see these SNIPs:" Always avoid the live attenuated nasal vaccine, FluMist.

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It’s also important that our nearest and dearest get an annual flu vaccine. They’ll get better responses than us and if they don’t get flu, they won’t give it to us. In the UK, partners and carers are entitled to have flu jabs on the NHS. You may wish to ask for children to receive the non-live injectable flu vaccine to save the risk of them shedding the virus to anyone close to them who is immunocompromised.

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Len

[Pekingese in reply to lankisterguy]

Thank you so much, I had a feeling this might be the case. Just needed to be sure. 👍

[SofiaDeo in reply to Pekingese]

There was a recent post discussing how long you needed to wait if she got a live vaccine, maybe search "rotavirus" that's the live vaccine being discussed but the recommendations were for all live vaccines.

[Pekingese in reply to SofiaDeo]

thank you Sofia, her Mom has decided to go for the flu injection rather than the flu spray. ☺️ I will take a look at the rotavirus. 👍

[PaulaS Volunteer in reply to Pekingese]

So glad to hear that, Pekingese. That's very thoughtful of her Mom, and one thing less for you to worry about. 🙂

Paula

[Pekingese in reply to PaulaS]

Thank you Paula ☺️ Have a lovely day 👍

[PaulaS Volunteer in reply to Pekingese]

You have a lovely day too, Pekingese. 😀👍

[stevesmith1964]

at a risk level there is probably a higher chance of catching covid from a 2 yr. 2 of my 3 covid infections have come my 5 and 3 yr olds. Covid is rige in achool and nursery so expecting my 4 and 5 infections by xmas.