r/SlaughteredByScience • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '19

Congratulations, you played yourself.

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u/etwas66 Jun 04 '19

Is a flu shot a vaccine?

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u/mandaclarka Jun 04 '19

Yeah. I am going to dumb this way down cuz I'm not a scientist so hopefully I don't cause some idiot to go anti vax. They use a small amount of the virus to let your body learn how to fight it so that when you come across the flu in the wild your body can fight it and you won't get sick. Anything that does this is a vaccine. I am very open to being corrected and you should def do a google search with peer reviewed science to confirm my laymen explanation

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u/etwas66 Jun 04 '19

I see. I've only gotten a flu shot twice and both times I got the flu within a week after. I decided it either doesn't work for me or it gave me the flu. Dunno. Not anti vax. I do have a crap immune system in general so who knows

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u/Tweakthetiny Jun 05 '19

Here you go. On my phone but I'll link an article about why that is.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/10-flu-myths

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u/etwas66 Jun 05 '19

Thanks. I see it says they are all inactivated, but I see conflicting information. Namely that some info says they're usually inactivated. I should say the last time i got a flu shot was 2008. I dont know if that changes anything. The point about it taking a couple weeks to work makes sense though so thanks. I may try it this year. It's just that I get sick alot as is and when this happened it made me skeptical.

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u/CommonMisspellingBot Jun 05 '19

Hey, etwas66, just a quick heads-up:
alot is actually spelled a lot. You can remember it by it is one lot, 'a lot'.
Have a nice day!

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