by Not your average framer » Tue Oct 17, 2017 5:34 pm
I don't want flu, thank you very much! I'm one of those who get a free flu jab every year, primarily because I'm a heart attack patient and have diabetes. Unfortunately the human body fights serious infections by not only increasing your body temperature, which enables your body to produce large volumes antibodies, but it also elevates your blood sugar level.
This is a problem for people who have diabetes, because the blood sugar level can go up more than is a good thing and adversely affect the immune systen. Flu can also be a big problem for some elderly people and also babies, because as you get older, your immune system gets weaker and the immune system in babies is often still developing.
Babies receive antibodies in their mothers milk, but not all mothers are able to breast feed their children and children with limited immunity can be a greater risk with some strains of flu. We have not had a serious killer strain of flu for a very long time, the last really bad one was when I was a school kid and I'm 65 now.
People who are younger won't remember how bad flu can be, the experts say that we are well overdue for a bad flu epidemic, so taking the flu jab might not only be a smart thing to do, but in some cases it might just happen to be a question of saving peoples lives. Lets hope that the health authorities continue to be good at picking the right strain of flu each year for the flu jabs.
Mark Lacey
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