Flu Vaccine

[Bazile]

Can you have a flu vaccine , if you have a cold ?

[fredkins]

I do not think you are supposed to but I had chesty cough and they gave it to me.They will probably ask you then decide wether you get it or not.

[pusskin]

I really dont know bazile, but we had our jab last week and we were really feeling rough with colds and coughs! Havent felt well all week x

[LazyGun]

If you have a cold with no fever then yes you can. Not if you have a raised temp though.

[Sqad]

I agree with LazyGun.

[Bazile]

Thanks all

Doesn't a fever and a raised temp go hand in hand ?

[Mamyalynne]

LG said 'no fever;

[Sqad]

Bazile...good point.
They might or might not.
If there was no fever I would question the diagnosis of a "cold."

[DTCwordfan]

they put me back a week two years ago when I had a cold, Bazile.....

[jno]

If there was no fever I would question the diagnosis of a "cold."

Why so, Sqad? I've had approximately 75,093,128 colds but never felt feverish with them. Just the usual sneezing, coughing and running nose - doesn't that imply a standard-issue cold?

[Eve]

I can have a hot forehead without necessarily having a temperature so they don't go hand in hand like some people seem to think they do.

I wasn't allowed to have one at my surgery when I had a chest infection. I had mine a couple of weeks after, went for blood tests and the nurse noticed I needed one and she did it there and then for me.

[Sqad]

jno.......just seen your post.

Colds are viral in origin and are usually associated with a rise in temperature....one doesn,t have to be sweating and feverish to have a rise in temperature. If you feel perfectly normal but have sneezing and a runny nose, one doesn' t usually take one's temperature, so how will you know?

Many of these "colds" are due to an allergy or more likely vast motor rhinitis (sudden change in air temperature>

[jno]

thanks Sqad... so I may just have had a lot of rhinitises over the eyyrs. Dooesn't make any practical difference, I suppose. Thank goodness tissues were invented, though - when I was little my mum used to have to cut up old bedsheets for me to blow my nose on, I was so productive.

[Bazile]

Usually tablet medication is taken with water .
However , is there any reason why you should not take them with , for example , Juice / tea / coffee /pop ?

[Bazile]

oops - this was supposed to be a new post

[woofgang]

that's going to depend a bit on the med. Sometimes taking them with a hot drink can dissolve a capsule or coating and make the thing taste a bit disgusting.

If its something OTC then it should be okay, so long as you drink plenty with them and its not alcoholic. I have trouble swallowing large tablets, so where possible I swallow them with food, then have a drink.

[Sqad]

Bazile.......depends what the medication is....but to answer your question, in 99% of cases it doesn't matter a "jot" what liquid form that you choose.

[woofgang]

snap Sqad!

[Sqad]

woofy.........but you answer was better than mine..........;-)

[Canary42]

Careful sqad, in these litiginous days shouldn't you add the rider "provided the liquid itself is not in any way dangerous to drink". E.g. bleach ! ! ! ! ! !

[Sqad]

Canary...thanks...;-)