your friend is misinformed. and she's doing herself and anyone around her a disservice by avoiding the flu shot. the influenza vaccine is an important tool in reducing the spread of this potentially lethal virus. when a person goes unvaccinated they're at much higher risk for picking up the virus. once they're infected they can pass the virus to others. some of the people who get the influenza virus will die. that's why it's so important to get the flu shot each year. you might reassure your friend that according to the centers for disease control (cdc) vaccines used in the united states contain only 6 or 7 ingredients. these include: aluminum salts sugars and/or gelatins egg protein penicillin sulfa drugs formaldehyde thimerosol (only in multi-dose vials of flu vaccine) those last two look scary right? but here's the thing: these ingredients are used in tiny amounts. in fact any given dose of a vaccine contains so little of those ingredients that they're not harmful to take. look at it this way: if it were harmful to get a flu shot wouldn't millions of people each year get sick and/or die from the vaccine? but they don't. in fact except for people with an egg allergy very few people have any adverse reaction to the flu shot and there certainly are no long-term studies that show getting an annual flu shot has a negative impact on one's health over the course of a lifetime. i urge you not to avoid the flu shot. it's good for your health and for the health of those around you. hope this helps!
my friend says flu shots contain toxins; she doesn't get an annual shot. i get one every year. who's crazy? . i researched the mercury in thimersol; fda is going to discontinue it but it you get a single dose shot there is no thimersol in it. some of the toxins she thinks are in flu shots are:. aluminum. mercury. triton x-100. phenol. ethylene glycol. betapropiolactone. nonoxynol. octoxinol 9. sodium phosphate