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Lisa 15 wrote: Just came back from the neuvola: my kids can be vaccinated already tomorrow (they're 4 1/2 and 6 y.o.)but nothing for me and my baby. She said that it is true that the baby would be protected while breastfeeding if I get the shot, but somehow, I won't get the shot before the governement take the decision whether to vaccinate the adults... so in any case not before December, and only if they make that decision....

Just came back from the neuvola: my kids can be vaccinated already tomorrow (they're 4 1/2 and 6 y.o.)but nothing for me and my baby. She said that it is true that the baby would be protected while breastfeeding if I get the shot, but somehow, I won't get the shot before the governement take the decision whether to vaccinate the adults... so in any case not before December, and only if they make that decision. I'm really not...

Same here. But I give her Ibuprofen sirup as well and it works well. Last night she went to bed with 38.5 despite the paracetamol o I gave her a dose of ibuprofen and she had a good night with fever around 37.5. Shame they don't do it in Finland. They only have the ibuprofen sirup in hospital. I always bring two or three bottles from France as they are cheap and you get them over-the-counter.

kay30 wrote: I've also noticed the use of flunssa here for things like a runny nose. I tried explaining that it really does mean something different in English, to no avail. Same thing with calling cupcakes muffins. It's not a muffin, dammit, if it is made out of cake batter and has frosting! (OK, technically a muffin is a kind of cake but you know what I mean.) Flunssa = the cold Influenssa = the flu

Wow, dentist saw my lad within the hour & fixed him totally, with instructions for him to eat soup & soft food for a while!Haven´t had the bill yet, but she did ask whether we had insurance or not....... Youngest got the swineflu vaccination at the same time, hubby has now had vaccination too. life goes on, hubby needs one more week of antibiotics, so he might get home from hospital before little one´s first birthday on 21st....

Now I have been thinking about this issue for some time as in my country when you take a first visit to ginekologist you are basically informed that it is better if you start taking pre-natal vitamins right-away. This is due to the thing mentioned in here - the unwanted pregnancy possibility. After a while I was informed that 6 months prior to pregnancy I should for sure supplement the diet. I took it seriously as close member in my family was...

Aigars wrote: Maybe that's just my paranoic point of view, but by now all that international vaccination thing looks like a global experiment... Mmmm, experimenting since 1796 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination

EP wrote: At HS page I read that one could queue for a while bu still get vaccination even not being in risk group. Where does it say that? At least not in the paper paper. It says quite the opposite. They don´t have enough vaccine at least not now. The paper paper HS says that in Espoo there have been people queueing who are clearly over 64. They have been given the ordinary flu shot as consolation. This was in web HS in English, but you...

At HS page I read that one could queue for a while bu still get vaccination even not being in risk group. Where does it say that? At least not in the paper paper. It says quite the opposite. They don´t have enough vaccine at least not now. The paper paper HS says that in Espoo there have been people queueing who are clearly over 64. They have been given the ordinary flu shot as consolation.

The other really scary thing is all the misinformation that has been spread via the Internet and Facebook. I read about one guy trying to convince a whole lot of other people not to get it because his grandmother got inoculated in the 70's (when people thought the vaccine was linked to some unexplained deaths) and she died. 20 years later. And he was sure that the vaccine killed her. (Either that or old age.) That and the people who think...