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seizures and the flu shot

Wed, 10/13/2010 - 18:10
Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth

Hi! 

My name is Sharon and my 9 year old is in the process of being diagnosed with epilepsy.  As a matter of fact, we go this Friday to find out the results of her prolonged video EEG....during which she did have another seizure. 

Anyway, she is due to have a flu shot at her pediatrician's office next week and I was wondering if she can still get it.  The reason I'm asking is when I went to get my flu shot last week, they asked if I had seizures.  Is there something in the flu shot that could possiblt trigger a seizure?

I will, of course, be asking her neurologist Friday about this, but I was curious if anyone knew anything about this.

Thank you for any info you may have!

Sharon

Comments

I would get the preservative

Submitted by Mishbone on Thu, 2017-11-02 - 10:26
I would get the preservative free vaccine or none at all. My 10 year old daughter got her flu shot and 2 days later had a 4 hour seizure. She was transported by EMS  to the hospital and is now on Keppra for 2 years minimum. And No one will listen to me that the only thing it could be is a reaction. I'm a critical care RN BSN. Not a crazy antivaxxer. She won't ever get another flu shot and all other vaccinations will be preservative free. 

When I asked the neurologist

Submitted by cesar658$ on Thu, 2018-11-29 - 18:32
When I asked the neurologist if the flumist could have caused my boys to have seizures his answer was that it could have triggered something. Ofcourse they will not put that on paper. In fact, if you go on the CDC website it clearly states that the side affects of the flumist and the flu vaccine are seizures. If the eplilepsy foundation really wants to help they should come up with a cure for this terrible disease. But ofcourse everything is a business and it's all about the money. The pharmaceutical companies that control the whole medical industry are not interested in cures there interested in making money so they want people to stay sick so they can keep making a profit. This is a big problem that is far greater then people can even imagine. 

It could be from the mercury

Submitted by Bab.bear on Thu, 2018-12-20 - 20:06
It could be from the mercury in the vaccination ingredients..u need to detoxify it out of ur body. Try drinking fuji or volvic water as the high silica content helps detoxify heavy metals . Also read dr mercolas  on how to detoxify heavy metals. Xx

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