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- Dr. Brent
- September 24, 2008
- 7:00 am
- 22 comments
Q: Are flu shots safe for pregnant women or not?
A: As long as there is no history of allergic reaction to flu vaccine after prior vaccinations, it is OK for pregnant women to get the vaccine during the flu season. There is no evidence to suggest that the vaccine will harm the infant, and, in fact, recent studies suggest that the vaccine actually protects the baby from contracting the flu during the first few months of life.
Dr. Brent Ridge is the health expert for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. You can call and ask him a question live every Tuesday at 2 p.m. Eastern on Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 112 (1.866.675.6675). You can also follow along as he learns to grow his own food and raise goats on his farm in upstate New York by visiting www.beekman1802.com.
Got a health question for Dr. Brent? E-mail him at drbrent@care2.com.
Dr. Brent
As an undergraduate, Dr. Brent Ridge majored in public health and environmental science, studying the way the state of the natural environment impacts our health choices. As a physician, he specializes in the field of aging. Send your health questions to Dr. Brent at drbrent@care2.com
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+ add your ownNot sure. It's probably a situation of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I didn't get one- I wouldn't get one if I wasn't pregnant so why would I get one when my body is going through major changes? There are side effects to vaccinations & I don't want to risk the health of my child. Having a good immune system will kept us healthy :)
Flu shts are a bad idea pregnant or not. We have immune systems for a reason.
Well, there's more mercury in all the seafood from the ocean as well as other heavy metals and poisons. Big Ag pumps all the meat you eat with antibiotics and poisons. Cows are fed chicken manure for food, pigs flesh is infested with tapeworms, chickens and chicken eggs are pumped full of antibiotics and you're worried about some imaginary mercury in flu shots? Are you joking? Pink slime mopped up from the floor of slaughterhouses is put in your Micky D burgers. Are you kidding me? Your food is slowly poisoning you and your offspring and you haven't noticed? Well don't get that shot! It's scarey!!! Hahahaha
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seen various cases of "spontaneous abortion" occurring after vaccines...
H1N1 turned out to be milder than regular flu. I didn't get the flu shot when I was pregnant with my 2nd (and it was at the height of the swine flu mass freak out), and did not get the flu nor did she. She seems so far to be quite healthy.
There is mercury in the flu shot, which does pass on to the unborn baby. Not harmless!
Thanks for the article.
I find it interesting that when there was a shortage of flue vaccine that suddenly it wasn't important but as soon as production was high then it suddenly again became important. Which is it?
I'm not sure if I was PG that I'd take anything that might effect my baby
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