I took my children to get their flu shot this week. I was unexpectantly surprised how easy and painless this so called shot was. I was told it was going to be the shot, but when I arrived in the room, the nurse brought in the FluMist shot. I was so thrilled! No tears or screaming! It took only 2 minutes to do all 3 of my children. All the nurse did was stick the vial up their noses and bam was over with! I highly, highly recommend trying to substitute the painful flu shot with the FluMist, especially for the younger children. The only downfall is that I have to wait until my 3 month old is 6 months to get it.
I'm glad there's another option available--I've been so reluctant to do this. I have an award for you over at The MamaZone. Here's a direct link: http://themamazone.blogspot.com/2009/10/best-blog-award.html Hope you'll stop by and pick it up.
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ReplyDeleteWere you aware that the Flumist contains the live virus? The shot does not, but the mist does. This means that your children actually have a tiny bit of the flu virus in their bodies, so technically they are contagious for 2-3 weeks. I thought about getting this last year for my 18 month old but since I had a newborn I decided not too once I found out that it was "live". We just skipped the shot too. Just wanted to let you know just in case!
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My sister was able to do this with her two and raved about it. I haven't gotten my kids in yet, but we will probably go this route. Glad it went well, shots are the worst!
ReplyDelete@Jenny No I did not know that! Well so far so good, no one is sick:) The nurse didn't even tell me that info! Thanks!
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