Tag: influenza vaccine

Is vaccination the way ahead in flu prevention?

November 26, 2019 / mommyingbabyt / 4 Comments

I’ve learned to read the signs by now. I can see how my toddler slowly falls prey to the #Influenza virus almost every alternate month. It starts with his day care lunch & snack boxes returning home unfinished. He loses his appetite. His zest. One morning he wakes up fine, and by the same evening he has a full-blown high-grade fever and we know it’s the dreaded F word – FLU.

What kills me is, when I sit down to think about it, I realize the signs were all there. Mom guilt has enveloped my brain by now. When I start to see reason, I know that by the time I could see the symptoms creeping in, it was already too late to prevent the flu. I needed to do something about it earlier. But what and how?

The flu is one of the most common reasons why kids miss school days. This also has a negative impact on their health, nutrition intake and weight parameters. Catching the flu in schools and daycare is quite common. While the #flu cannot be avoided its impact can be softened. Taking an #influenzavaccine can prevent children getting a very adverse attack of the flu. #childrenshealth #immunityinchildren #childrensimmunity #vaccines #preventflu #hygieneforkids

#WarriorMoms are not afraid of Influenza

September 10, 2018 / mommyingbabyt / 3 Comments

BabyT joined playschool in January this year. Since then we have seen rapid development in many of his skills – communication, fine motor and gross motor. However, there was also a flipside to this. Out of the 10 weeks that he has been there, he has missed school for 2 weeks. The reason was recurrent colds and one particularly bad episode of flu. It left me wondering whether the payoff was worth it. I even considered pulling him out of school.I constantly worried – how can I improve my child’s immunity?

I also read up all I could about influenza. Continue reading