Pregnant Mother's Flu Shot Protects Baby

[HuckleB]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203575.php

"If a woman has a flu shot while pregnant the chances of her baby getting flu or being admitted to hospital with a respiratory infection are significantly lower, especially during their first six months after being born, researchers wrote in an article published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

Young children and especially babies have a higher risk of influenza complications. However, you cannot vaccinated a baby during their first six months.

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The investigators found that babies whose mothers had been vaccinated against flu during pregnancy had a 41% lower chance of developing laboratory-confirmed flu virus infection and were 39% less likely to have to be admitted to hospital because of a flu-like illness. Blood samples showed that the babies whose mothers had been vaccinated had higher levels of influenza antibodies than the babies of unvaccinated mothers.

The authors concluded: Although influenza vaccination is recommended for pregnant women to reduce their risk of influenza complications, these findings provide support for the added benefit of protecting infants from influenza virus infection up to six months, the period when infants are not eligible for influenza vaccination but are at highest risk of severe influenza illness. These findings are particularly relevant with the emergence of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus, which had a substantial impact on pregnant women and high hospitalization rates among young infants."

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This is good, no?

:hi:

[xchrom]

1. Recommend

[HuckleB]

5. Thank you.

[madrchsod]

2. yesit is but do`t tell the anti vaccines nutballs.....

[MineralMan]

3. All of the local news stories about getting the flu vaccine are

stressing this this season. I hope women who are pregnant take heed.

[HuckleB]

4. Indeed. -eom-

[HuckleB]

6. Some Flu Vaccine Updates

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=7223

A nice review of the latest...

[HuckleB]

7. I see the anti-vax/anti-science unrecs have struck again!

:hi:

[evirus]

8. i could have predicted this

seeing as how a recently born babies immune system is in a way, the mothers immune system.

[Dorian Gray]

9. I'm getting my shot tomorrow morning

at 9 am. Doctor told me to go for it. Baby due in two weeks. :)