Comments on: A Flu Shot During Pregnancy Prevents More Than Just the Flu

By: Christina Waldman

Christina Waldman — Thu, 24 May 2012 00:59:18 +0000

Please read this article by Dr. Suzanne Humphries on the risk of getting a flu shot while pregnant. It points out flaws in the way vaccine research is conducted. http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2012/02/29/3013/ Why be a guinea pig? There is thimerosal (ethylmercury), a dangerous neurotoxin, in flu shots. Flu shot package inserts state no studies have been done on flu vaccine’s risk of cancer (Go to CDC website.). You care more about your unborn baby than anyone else in the world. Can’t pharma even wait until your child is born to vaccinate him? Please, read Neil Z. Miller’s “Vaccine Safety Manual.” The autism rate was 1 in 88. It used to be one in 15,000.

By: Lexi Mixon

Lexi Mixon — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:19:23 +0000

You are right, as seen in this article, you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet. However selecting the source carefully, you can get some excellent information over the internet.

By: Richids Coulter

Richids Coulter — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:20:58 +0000

@thirdwarning – the fact that swine flu vaccines are responsible for a massive increase in narcolepsy is well documented – http://www.lakemedelsverket.se/upload/nyheter/2011/Fallinventeringsrapport_pandermrix_110630.pdf

Conclusion
The incidence of narcolepsy with cataplexy in children/adolescents in the Swedish population increased during the pandemic and vaccination period, with a rapid decline in incidence during the post pandemic period. Subjects who had been vaccinated with Pandemrix were at a 6.6‐fold increased risk to develop narcolepsy with cataplexy compared to those who had not been vaccinated. Cases of narcolepsy with cataplexy with onset after vaccination had a higher prevalence of cataplexy as a first symptom and of two or more simultaneous symptoms as compared with non‐vaccinated cases.
These new results provide strengthened evidence that vaccination with Pandemrix during the pandemic period was associated with an increase in the risk for narcolepsy with cataplexy in children/adolescents 19 years and younger. Further research is urgently needed to explain the possible causative mechanisms.

By: Rocco

Rocco — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:47:38 +0000

This article is misleading. This study is looking at the women who got the flu shot, but fails to disclose other factors that contribute to low birth weight, still births and pre-term labor. It is not disclosing pre-natal care, check ups, environmental factors, socio-economic levels, genetics, pre-existing health issues, etc. This is a biased article and the science seems manipulated to achieve a pre-determined conclusion.

By: thirdwarning

thirdwarning — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:49:54 +0000

Kevin, why would you be so eager to censor information, simply because it disagrees with your personal opinion? Also, what does parenthood have to do with scientific or medical research, or with journalism? Having children does not bestow innate ability to read and write about research reports, which is what this article is about.
As to the comment above suggesting that stories from the internet are a good way to gather medical information, I think we can all see how ridiculous that is. In fact, using the numbers provided by some of those intentionally scary internet articles, the rate of miscarriage following the H1N1 shot is not any higher than the average, which means that the shot does not increase the probability of miscarriage. In fact, the numbers provided in those articles being used by the above poster are actually a bit lower than the norm, which indicates that the flu shot could have a somewhat protective effect.
Perhaps you should sit down and think long and hard about that.

By: Kevin Carrothers

Kevin Carrothers — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:31:48 +0000

I think its obvious this article needs to be removed and the person who wrote it (she is not even a parent) sits down and thinks long and hard about the advice she is giving out

By: Richids Coulter

Richids Coulter — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:23:43 +0000

I think this should read “getting a flu shot during pregnancy won’t protect you against the flu”

That’s the conclusion the Cochrane Collaboration came to regarding the flu in healthy adults. As for the H1N1, several countries noted increases in miscarraiges of between 300~800% and are now experiencing record high cases of narcolepsy.

By: Lexi Mixon

Lexi Mixon — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:59:11 +0000

“less likely to have a still birth” because the flu shot already caused the mother to miscarry right after she received the shot. Don’t be fooled, the flu shot during pregnancy is dangerous! Google miscarraiges and flu shot, you can read personal stories of hundreds of women who met the fate of the flu shot.

By: Kevin Carrothers

Kevin Carrothers — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:28:49 +0000

?????Really????? Please, please ,please research all vaccines before receiving them. The flu vaccine INCREASES the chance of miscarriage and premature birth!!! I don’t know where the info in the article was scraped from but it is completely untrue. The link to the “new study” does not even work.

By: Bri

Bri — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:58:09 +0000

No and no.

What pandemic are you talking about? I heard all about the H1N1 and how it was going to be a pandemic and then never saw a single person with it. I contracted the flu at 15 weeks and it was the worst case I have ever had. Four days worth of aches and pains. I can’t see the study but I love how nothing else is mentioned aside from the flu shot. What part of the shot is supposed to be beneficial?

According to the FDA, the influenza shot is a class C drug. This means that it is not known whether the vaccine can cause fetal harm and has not been tested in either pregnant animals or women. According to the FLUVIRIN insert, safety and effectiveness of FLUVIRIN have not been established in pregnant women, nursing mothers, or children less than 4 years of age.

I’m 35 weeks now and have had zero contractions, my baby’s heartbeat is always in the same range, and have had zero complications. I guess not getting the flu shot for no reason didn’t hurt me.