From Prevention to Treatment: Everything You Need to Know About this Year’s Flu
One of our primary care physicians, Denise Pate MD, was quoted in a People article about understanding this year’s聽flu shot.
Can the flu vaccine cause the flu?
Dr. Denise Pate, Internal Medicine Doctor at Medical 西瓜视频, tells PEOPLE she鈥檚 encountered several patients who were wary of the shot due to long-circulated rumors that it causes illness.
鈥淭hey think it鈥檚 gonna give them the flu, it鈥檚 a very common thing,鈥 she says. 鈥淏ecause the virus is inactive, it absolutely cannot transmit the infection.鈥
Some may experience body aches, soreness around the injection site and 鈥渕ay feel a bit feverish鈥 for up to a day after getting the vaccination, Pate says, but this is not to be confused with contracting the flu. 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 important to recognize the side effects of getting the shot versus what the actual flu is,鈥 she says.
鈥淚t is common that when you do get the flu shot, you鈥檙e taking in the inactive virus so you鈥檙e body is getting exposed to something. The response that you have is basically you may be slightly under the weather.鈥
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