The FDA recently approved Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent Influenza vaccine for older adults. IOW, this version will include immunization to four strains of flu (2 A and 2 B strains). The current vaccine is trivalent, meaning it confers immunity to 2 A strains, and 1 B strain if influenza. Supposedly, the side effects are similar.
FDA OKs Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine for Older Adults
Tex
FDA Approves High-Dose Quadrivalent Flu Vaccine for Seniors
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FDA Approves High-Dose Quadrivalent Flu Vaccine for Seniors
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I'm still on the fence about flu shots....why am I so hesitant to get one? Is it because of the egg diversion we have when we are reacting to everything....(well now I might be able to tolerate it a bit better since my healing has taken a better turn).
I still have this weak feeling about putting that dead virus in my body.....especially when it took 6 months for the scientists to create this combination of flu vaccine and by then that darn flu could have changed again. I read in Science Nordic that they took the virus from 4 subjects Brisbane, Kansas, Colorado and Phuket, and created this years flu vaccine!
https://sciencenorway.no/flu-vaccines/h ... ar/1587503
Just talking out loud ;-) If anyone has any reassuring thoughts I'm all ears.
Erica
I still have this weak feeling about putting that dead virus in my body.....especially when it took 6 months for the scientists to create this combination of flu vaccine and by then that darn flu could have changed again. I read in Science Nordic that they took the virus from 4 subjects Brisbane, Kansas, Colorado and Phuket, and created this years flu vaccine!
https://sciencenorway.no/flu-vaccines/h ... ar/1587503
Just talking out loud ;-) If anyone has any reassuring thoughts I'm all ears.
Erica
To Succeed you have to Believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a Reality - Anita Roddick
Dx LC April 2012 had symptoms since Aug 2007
Dx LC April 2012 had symptoms since Aug 2007
Hi Erica,
I look at it the same way — because I have occasional histamine issues if I overdo something (such as eat anything that contains too much histamine), I continue to decline the flu shots. I wash my hands and avoid crowds. I notice that some of the schools in this area are closing for a few days and they say they will disinfect the buildings, because of the flu.
Glad I'l not a schoolteacher. 
Tex
I look at it the same way — because I have occasional histamine issues if I overdo something (such as eat anything that contains too much histamine), I continue to decline the flu shots. I wash my hands and avoid crowds. I notice that some of the schools in this area are closing for a few days and they say they will disinfect the buildings, because of the flu.
Glad I'l not a schoolteacher. Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.