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If you are an annual flu vaccination?

The final decision is yours, and should be taken to your doctor.

My goal is to give you the facts behind the story.

I’m not vehemently pro or anti vaccines. For the record, I never get an annual flu vaccination and does not intend to. But in recent years I have been vaccinated against both hepatitis B and hepatitis A.

The main misconception is that all too common, and the pro-vaccine barrage of media promotes IT vaccines is that the “real” you.

Too many people believe incorrectly that the flu shot kills as acts of “pre” antibiotic that someone the flu virus before they are actually infected with it.

That would be wrong, even if flu viruses could be killed by antibiotics. What they can not.

Vaccines are a teacher.

Think of your immune system as an army to protect your body from invasion. Your army has hundreds of millions of weapons (called antibodies). Any intruders can be killed by a specific antibody.

If you are invaded, but it takes up to a week to learn for your immune system, which antibodies against that particular plant viruses, bacteria or parasites. Thereafter, however, the immune system works as hard as possible, much more that produce antibodies and use it against the invading infection.

After the invasion is defeated, your army stores the information about the intruder and the antibody in a particular biological database (so-called memory B cells). So, if that seed infected, you again, the immune system can begin to fight back immediately effective.

Vaccines are dead or weakened germs found that the flu shot dumps on the banks of the body for your immune system. Your immune system reacts to the threat by trying antibodies as if it were itself a large-scale invasion. After a while it learns to produce the antibodies, to defeat the particular strain of the virus, and stores this information in the memory B-cells.

Therefore, if you are exposed to a live version of this virus during the upcoming flu season, you can fulfill your immune system once the threat of rolling out the big gun antibodies.

That’s what they do-vaccines, the immune system to a particular virus, giving them a safe, test run defeat invasion train. You do not do the actual fighting. . . That’s up to your immune system.

And this is an important point. For the stronger the immune system, the better it is defended you, vaccine or no vaccine.

A strong, well-equipped army (that is, a healthy immune system) is better able to fight off an infection, as a weak and poorly equipped army (an unhealthy immune system).

Flu vaccinations are offered for those most weakened immune system: the very young, very old, very sick, HIV positive, organ transplant recipients, cancer treatment and all patients who would otherwise recommended immunosuppression.

The medical establishment believes that a weak army more need for training with the flu vaccine as a strong army provided and that makes sense.

No matter what age or health, you should also understand that a strong immune system is better than a weak, and do everything possible to boost your immune system by:

Much sleep

Getting regular moderate exercise

to eat healthy food

Among immune strengthening supplements such as vitamin C, beta carotene, vitamin E, zinc and selenium.

The different strains of influenza viruses are globally by the World Health Organization (WHO) monitors concerned by the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) and other laboratories. Many hospitals and clinics to send in samples of flu patients.

Every year around February, influenza experts and take advantage of this information in order to make their best informed guess about which three strains of influenza are most likely in the coming winter in circulation.

They are experts, so they make scientific assumptions, but they have no crystal ball. They can and have been wrong.

Vaccine manufacturers then six to eight months to make vaccines against the three strains of the influenza production.

For the upcoming 2007 flu season, the shot contains antigens (inactivated and live attenuated viruses) for the three influenza strains: A / New Caledonia/20/1999 (H1N1)-like, A/Wisconsin/67/2005 (H3N2) – how and B/Malaysia/2506/2004.

What if the circulating strain of influenza that is in fact this winter is not one of the above?

They are still susceptible to infection. Even if you get a flu vaccination, you should not cease to practice good hygiene. Do not get near people sneezing or coughing. Wash your hands often.

Viruses for these vaccines grown in chicken eggs, so you should not take the flu vaccine if you have a history of Severe hypersensitivity to eggs, such as anaphylaxis have.

According to the Center for Disease Control, “The manufacturers use different compounds could inactivate influenza viruses and add antibiotics to prevent bacterial contamination.”

As with all medical procedures injected with a foreign substance into your bloodstream contains a certain amount of risk. The FDA and manufacturers guard against pollution, but it is present in vaccines in the past. FluMist, which is inhaled is to avoid piercing the skin.

Three people died recently in Israel after the administration of flu vaccinations. It is not yet known that the influenza vaccine itself caused or contributed to her death (they were old and in poor health anyway, but those are just the most people recommended to get vaccinated against flu), or how. But these cases show that despite all precautions, there are some minor risks.

One of the big arguments vaccination opponents have made the use of thimerosal as a preservative in vaccines. Thimerosal is an organic compound containing about 50% ethyl mercury.

According to the FDA’s online tables of 5 September 2005, will sail from thimerosal vaccines. There are only traces in the influenza vaccination by some manufacturers. There is no in FluMist.

Consult with your doctor, but if you get a flu shot or not your best defense against any disease is a healthy immune system.