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In a message dated 10/29/2003 1:50:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,

Graduate-OSSG writes:

> Does anyone know of any reason WE should not have a flu shot? I

> have never taken one post op and feel the need to do so this year.

I always get one.

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I have gotten one the past two years. No problem. The only reason I have

hesitated this year is because of recovering from a hysterectomy.

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> In a message dated 10/29/2003 1:50:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,

> Graduate-OSSG writes:

>

> > Does anyone know of any reason WE should not have a flu shot? I

> > have never taken one post op and feel the need to do so this year.

>

> I always get one.

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I refuse to get flu shots because they contain the poisonous heavy metal

mercury, in the form of Thimersol, a trademarked preservative. Mercury

is a known brain toxin, and as the mother of a preschooler, I need to

keep every brain cell that I have! Also, anyone with a known allergy to

egg whites will have a reaction, potentially severe, to a flu shot.

Those are two good reasons to NOT get the shot.

Finally, if like last year, supplies run low, the " worried well " should

not get shots until people in genuine risk groups have gotten theirs.

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Re: Digest Number 2646

In a message dated 10/29/2003 1:50:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,

Graduate-OSSG writes:

> Does anyone know of any reason WE should not have a flu shot? I have

> never taken one post op and feel the need to do so this year.

I always get one.

Y

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> I refuse to get flu shots because they contain the poisonous heavy metal

> mercury, in the form of Thimersol, a trademarked preservative.

But you can ask your health care provider for a thimerosol-free flu shot. It was

approved a year or two ago. And the flu " spray " vaccine that is inhaled does not

have thimerosol.

~~ Lyn G

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Thanks Lyn, I didn't know that. I don't exactly appreciate thimerasol

either. They used to use it as a preservative in contact lens solutions,

but had to quit using it because too many people were " allergic " to it.

However, one of the nurses in my PCP's office said that the flu this year is

very serious and has landed many people in the hospital.

Barbara Jean

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> > I refuse to get flu shots because they contain the poisonous heavy metal

> > mercury, in the form of Thimersol, a trademarked preservative.

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> But you can ask your health care provider for a thimerosol-free flu shot.

It was approved a year or two ago. And the flu " spray " vaccine that is

inhaled does not have thimerosol.

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> ~~ Lyn G

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> However, one of the nurses in my PCP's office said that the flu this year is

> very serious and has landed many people in the hospital.

The flu can be serious any year. Last year we all panicked about SARS, but look

at the stats:

" An average of about 36,000 people per year in the United States die from

influenza, and 114,000 per year have to be admitted to the hospital as a result

of influenza. " http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/flu/fluinfo.htm

" According to the World Health Organization (WHO), during the SARS outbreak of

2003, a total of 8,098 people worldwide became sick with SARS; of these, 774

died. "

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/factsheet.htm

I'd say I have a better chance of being one of the 36,000 in the US than one of

the 774 worldwide, so *I* will be getting the flu shot. I've known of too many

people, healthy and young, who went downhill too quickly to save because of what

they thought was a simple case of the flu.

~~ Lyn

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