 [ Symptoms ] my ear hurts and i can barley hear out of it please help  today when i was eating all the sudden i could not hear then the pain started to come on i took some rescon it took the pain away but i still could not hear [ Disease ] you cannot catch the flu influenza from a flu shot or the nasal vaccine it is biologically incapable of causing the actual illness the flu vaccine only helps protects against true influenza not colds and not the stomach flu which is not a form of influenza