Pros And Cons Of Influenza Vaccination

Do influenza vaccinations and other vaccinations always do good? In my case, the flu shot killed one of my great grandmothers that I loved dearly on December 6, 2010. It was a very difficult time, plus finding out that the flu shot is what triggered it made it even harder. It was a very fast painful death and if she didn’t get the flu shot that year she would probably still be alive today. My grandma had a disease that was very uncommon and it was very devastating. My grandma, Hazel, was 88 and she got the flu shot like her and her husband, Carol, did every year, but one year wasn’t the same as every other year. In 2010, Hazel got the flu shot with her husband but a couple hours later she knew something wasn’t right. She went to the hospital and she continued to get worse and worse. Hazel was experiencing a feeling of tingling, difficulty breathing, and was getting weaker and weaker as hours past. They found out that the flu shot had triggered the Guillain-Barre syndrome that is very rare and only occurs in about one person in 100,000. My grandma was 1/100,000 since it is so rare they don 't have a cure for …show more content…
One doctor that we talked to about the flu shot told us that it really isn 't a big deal if you don 't get the flu shot because the flu isn’t as bad as it could be. The Guillain-Barre syndrome actually causes a person’s immune system to damage their own nerve cells. This makes the person very weak and can cause the person to go paralyzed. When someone dies from GBS it is normally from difficulty breathing. Getting Guillain-Barre syndrome is much worse than getting the flu, in my opinion, because it is known now in my family that one can die from it. My mom actually looks into any shot that I get now because it could trigger Guillain-Barre syndrome and she doesn’t want me to get the shot if there is a chance that it could