The DU Lounge
Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIt's Not Just Measles. What You Should Know About Vaccines For Adults:
I really hate shots, never even gotten a flu shot before.
But I will follow the advice in this NPR piece...
Sigh.
"Many adults are not aware of what vaccines they actually need," says Dr. Pamela Rockwell, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Michigan who works with the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. "That is also balanced by physician unawareness of what vaccines they should be recommending. It's gotten very complicated, and it is difficult to keep up with all the changes."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/15/723282022/its-not-just-measles-what-you-should-know-about-vaccines-for-adults
csziggy
(34,137 posts)I started checking their site last year since it also covers recommended vaccinations for those traveling outside the US - https://www.cdc.gov/features/vaccines-travel/index.html
Delmette2.0
(4,169 posts)Many of us don't have our vaccination records because it wasn't required. I just got a Whooping Cough vaccine because the disease is flaring up. Missoula has just over 100 cases and is just 120 miles away. For Montana they are my neighbors. In fact my County has reported new cases of Whooping Cough. I haven't heard the latest count, but I can't take chances.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)get a booster for Whooping Cough.. If your doctor has you on a 10yr booster schedule for tetanus, you will also receive Whooping cough, since they are piggybacked.
Our daughter demanded we get boosters before her baby is born, so we did. She's having a bit of resistance from her mother in law and father in law.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)Another large panel of them when I went overseas, and then a few boosters when I was ordered to the Gulf in 1991.
I never questioned the need for them, and no one protested them other than by rubbing their arms afterwards and saying "Man, that HURT!"
I wish vaccine protests had never become a thing, and certainly that the anti-vaxxers had never drafted 'personal choice' into their putrid arguments. One should not have the right to choose to expose other people to deadly diseases.
A DAY IN THE LIFE
(88 posts)We got lined up, marched to the clinic every year to get shots. Usually multiple shots. There would be a tech on each side with the shot gun. A guy would rub down your shoulder with a gigantic was of cotton soaked with alcohol (The cotton was almost always grey from cleaning all of the shoulders in front of you), then the two guns at the same time against each shoulder. Move and you get sliced by the needle. Only medical exemptions, no religious exemptions.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)us ladies handled them just fine.
in2herbs
(2,947 posts)with a high risk of infection occurs. Such a shot can be given at any time, unlike a rabies shot which doesn't do you any good if you've already been bitten by a rabid animal.
Kali
(55,019 posts)toxoid is the vaccine against illness, and antitoxin to protect immediately when wounded. if you ever saw a victim of tetanus you would change your opinion.
padfun
(1,787 posts)I was in the Navy back near the end of the Vietnam War. In boot camp, we had to get multiple vaccinations near daily for a while. We had to be well immunized if you were going to the 7th fleet, the Pacific fleet.
I am glad for that. Many of those would have needed boosters I am sure, but it's not something I think about any more. Not until recently that is.