Most doctors do not know anything about vaccines, really.
This year's flu vaccine is different...has more strains, and may have stronger adjuvants. It is the adjuvants (additives) that create the reactions.
Here is the CDC guideline:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/genrec.html
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Certain drugs may cause immunosuppression. For instance, persons receiving cancer treatment with alkylating agents or antimetabolites, or radiation therapy should not be given live vaccines. Live vaccines can be given after chemotherapy has been discontinued for at least 3 months. Persons receiving large doses of corticosteroids should not receive live vaccines. For example, this would include persons receiving 20 milligrams or more of prednisone daily or 2 or more milligrams of prednisone per kilogram of body weight per day for 14 days or longer. See Varicella chapter for more information about administration of zoster vaccine to immunosuppressed persons.
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and:
http://www.immunize.org/askexperts/experts_general.asp
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Inactivated vaccines and toxoids can be administered to all immunocompromised patients in usual doses and schedules, although the response to these vaccines may be suboptimal.
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Usually the use of steroids after a vaccine may inactivate proper immune response, so that the vaccine may be negated.
I'd get the exact ingredients from your vaccine, and who made it, including the lot #. Every year vaccines get recalled for one reason or another (errors, contamination, and even ineffectiveness). If this new vaccine has problems, you need to
have details at hand for your own liability claims.
Many vaccines don't even put ingredients now in their inserts that come with the vaccine. But if you have the name and company you can usually find them online somewhere.
Don't assume vaccines are "safe". We have had several injuries on PN forum. Currently we have a poster damaged by the adult whooping cough booster. And we had a poster from Canada injured by H1N1 vaccine.
This is my vaccine thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread163906.html
Statute of limitations for vaccine injury claims is typically 2 yrs. However, that is only for the gov't bureau. The vaccine industry got an exemption from the Supreme Court to disallow liability suits from vaccine injuries. That says quite a bit IMO.
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