How bad is the H1N1?

[Whispering Winds]

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THANK YOU!! This is what I have been saying all along, we need to stop the vaccinating and start building outselves up. I worked for a chiro group, and they scared me with TRUE facts about vaccines. I am not saying they are all bad, but there is a lot of stuff put in them (mercury, copper, and formaldahyde) that is the real problems. The new H1N1 does not have mercury in it, but you can bet your sweet bippy there is something in it that is not good for us!)

 

[Evermore Ranch]

My family is just getting over H1N1. My 16 year old son was hit the worst. It hit him all at once. Aches, cough, chest congestion, and a fever over 103. He slept for days and only was semi-consious for me to give meds. My DH was started on tamiflu as soon as son was tested positive as he had a heart attack less than 6 months ago and doctors were worried about his hearts weakened state. So he was spared the worst of it. We had to bleach the whole house as we were told it will live on counters for a while. After it was all over my son said except for his high fever he did not feel as bad as when he gets seasonal flu. But he has not gotten that high of a fever with seasonal flu. Doctors told me that if you have flu now it is more likely H1N1.

Good luck to those of you sick. I hope you start feeling better soon.

 

[Chicken Girl]

I am happy every body in you house is better!

And you will hopfully never get it agen!


Chicken Girl

 

[Evermore Ranch]

Thanks it was a really tough week!!! Not only caring for my guys, but no help with any of the critters. I think most of my problem was pure exhaustion!!

 

[Chicken Girl]

Mabey you need to take a day off and SLEEP! I know its hard for moms to do that stuff but you should try!


Chicken Girl

 

[Eggs4Sale]

Remember when this started in Mexico over the summer? We had an appointment in San Diego with our Allergy and Immunology doctor. We all have asthma. Well, just before the day to travel, we found out there were H1N1 cases in S.D., and some people had died from it. Knowing we'd be staying in a hotel serviced by housekeepers from Mexico (that's a fact, not racism) and eating in restaurants, we wondered if we were going into the eye of the storm. I called the doctor and asked her for advice. She said "Turn off the T.V." We did, but took bleach with us

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[silkiechicken]

To answer the q of how vaccines work... well basically it's a low dosage exposure of the virus in some form, alive or dead dead depending on your definition of life, parts of it like the viral coat, or proteins from it etc... so your body has time to build up it's own immunity, ideally, without the low dose exposure making you sick. Variations of type A and B influenza circulate yearly. Most humans probably have been exposed to the once deadily Spanish flu but because we are now immune, doesn't make many sick any more.

Kind of like how you don't want to raise anything you want to ever get out into the real world in a sterile environment, if they are not exposed, they will never gain immunities to it, thus when it hits, it will hit VERY hard instead of barely.

In our chickens it is like cocci, expose them when they are young, they grow up with an immunity. That said, just like any vaccine, overload your body with it, such as a chicken eating too much dirt with cocci in it, you can still get sick.

 

[Mahonri]

Son #2 had it two weeks ago and was one sick puppy. (Attending BYU in Utah)

Son #1 now has it (Also attending college in Utah)

I don't want it.

 

[1acrefarm]

If anyone is planning on getting the shot here is something to consider.

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

I am so confused as to whether I should get my kids the vaccines and us (DH and I)... We don't typically vaccinate our kids.
But this is freaking me out. If my kids were all adults I might be more apt to just not do it, but my youngest is nearly 4, my oldest 9.
My oldest had all of his baby shots, my middle child had about half of hers, and my youngest has had none but is the healthiest of the three. She's only had a cold twice in her life, very mild.
I'm just so on the fence and haven't found anything to sway me. I'm worried about the side effects but man, I just don't know...
My husband thinks we should skip it and it's all media hype. But he's a softy and knows I do more research than him and if I wanted it, he wouldn't say no.