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<blockquote data-quote="misswhiplash" data-source="post: 983007" data-attributes="member: 148843"><p>Agreed that the jab may well not be particularly effective and also agree that it is find to have irregular it depending on preference.</p><p></p><p>However, it's not just about being more suscetible to flu (I'm pretty sure I'm not, for example - as you say, I'm fairly well controlled and, tbh, am just not the kind of person that catches things generally). It's also about the effect that flu would have if you did happen to catch it - for most people, they'd be ill and miserable for a week or two and then get better, but for someone with diabetes, no matter how well controlled, the virus would be likely to play merry hell with their blood sugars, which could well lead to more serious problems/hospitalisation etc.</p><p></p><p>Similar deal for other "free flu jab" people - the elderly, the young, asthmatics etc - it's the complications that they are worried about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="misswhiplash, post: 983007, member: 148843"] Agreed that the jab may well not be particularly effective and also agree that it is find to have irregular it depending on preference. However, it's not just about being more suscetible to flu (I'm pretty sure I'm not, for example - as you say, I'm fairly well controlled and, tbh, am just not the kind of person that catches things generally). It's also about the effect that flu would have if you did happen to catch it - for most people, they'd be ill and miserable for a week or two and then get better, but for someone with diabetes, no matter how well controlled, the virus would be likely to play merry hell with their blood sugars, which could well lead to more serious problems/hospitalisation etc. Similar deal for other "free flu jab" people - the elderly, the young, asthmatics etc - it's the complications that they are worried about. [/QUOTE]
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