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11/11/2018
Better for senior citizens to have 2 flu jabs a year
A study by the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and Tan Tock Seng Hospital has recommended that the elderly should go for 2 vaccinations annually against flu and respiratory illnesses. This is a good advice as flu attack seems so common especially for the elderly and for me. This is one of the irritating things that happens to me regularly and I have tried many methods to prevent this from happening. With so many foreigners from little corners of the world, Singaporeans are now exposed to many funny and strange viruses that were not here before the open leg policy.
I dunno how much it would cost for the two jabs and for the pain that is part of poking a needle into the skin and flesh. Two instead of one jab would definitely be better as a protection. It was reported in thenewpaper that the second jab would provide better protection against 3 influenza strains.
I think protecting against 3 strains may not be enough given the number of foreigners from all corners of the world in our midst. Instead of going for the 2 jabs to be protected against the 3 strains, I have chosen to be exposed to more strains and getting free vaccinations without the pain and the cost, by taking public transport, especially the crowded trains. I am daily being vaccinated and should be protected by the numerous strains in the air in the confined space of trains when one has to share the air with everyone in the train. And if one is lucky to stand or sit beside someone with a running nose, the impact and exposure would be several hundred times more.
I know as it would hit me almost immediately. My experiment with these unwelcome attacks in the train is to pop a couple of paraceptamol the moment I reached the office. Sometimes I may need another two or four tablets to make sure the free vaccinations did not turn into a full blown flu attack. So far it has worked. Instead of having to suffer two weeks of flu, headache, slight fever and general discomfort and a couple of dozens of paraceptamol, so far I could make do with 2 to 8 tablets to keep the flu from becoming full blown.
What I know from my personal experience and experiment is that there must be many more strains in the train/air. This is confirmed by the discomfort and earlier signs of a flu attack everytime I sit/stand beside someone with flu/running nose, in the train.
Hopefully after a year or two of daily vaccination in the train, my antibody level will be high to protect me from all strains of flu. Unfortunately, after so many years being vaccinated in the train, the attack keeps coming on. I can only conclude that there must be many strains of flu due to the constant changing of foreigners from our open leg policy and the constant mutation of the flu viruses.
The only comfort from my experiment is that I did not have to keep going for jabs and to pay for them. I have them free, in the train, daily, being exposed to the latest strains when they arrived, in the train. And these are live viruses, not the dead viruses used in vaccination. Think my resistance system should be stronger, with stronger antibodies. But I am still being hit very often.
If being exposed to these deadly viruses daily, twice a day, and I am still getting the flu, would exposing to 3 strains of dead viruses help? Or would the daily exposure would be more than is needed than being exposed twice a year with vaccination jabs?
RB, 1) the pills u are taking is for pain relief and it has nothing to do with protecting u from the flu. 2) getting exposure to live virus if you are strong may build immunity. But when u are weak, old and vulnerable, u may be killed by the exposure. So take note as we do not want to loose u as you are already 69.๐
ReplyDeleteA study? Antibiotics were the rage at one time and we were given them for every kind of ailments. Was a study carried out before they were highly recommended?
ReplyDeleteAnd did they do another study and found out that too much of antibiotics also made the body's natural fighting ability against infections very weak with too much antibiotic use? But the manufacturer's of such antibiotics already made their pile, and were laughing all the way to the banks.
A study of how to make more use of CPF recommended that...….
ReplyDeleteUnderstand from my oldie friend that can only use part CPF for the jabs.
Think he told me only for first jab. Virgin jab.
Second jab they told him cash.
Aiya, the Foreign Talents not only brought in their Talents just also even TB, long time eradicated in SinkeLand and what's having in U ASS A palayaris Polio diseases.
Sinkieland many more to come. Heng said cannot stop the flow.
Have to check with him.
Cheers.
Heng said cannot stop the flow. Must be talking about the flow of millions in salary into his bank account.
ReplyDeleteAll these jabs are to help the flu virus to mutate into more deadly variant.
ReplyDeleteIt has already happened with mosquitos causing Malaria. They became more resistant to drugs.
And antibiotics used excessively over the decades, we still do not know how that has affected our body's system in fighting infections. Humans do not mutate like insects, do they?
Hope more people can wake up and realise what does it mean by "you die is your own business".
ReplyDeleteThis is another con job in the making. Leave it to the cunning minded with power to do what they like and how much money they are going to siphon out o your pocket (bank account).
ReplyDeleteDid they do a study of whether drinking 'sai chwee' affects the brain?
ReplyDeleteBut daft Sinkies always assume that everything is safe if it checked and sanctioned by the powers that be in red dot.
What can be wrong?
Some monkies may be thinking of making it compulsory to steal money from the seniors CPF again. In the name of helping to protect the seniors.
ReplyDeleteNo gov in this world wants old people to live long one lah. They all cannot wait the oldies die early and take their monies away.
ReplyDeleteOut of the PAP's new set of central executive committee members, only one can be considered with some semblance of likability - Tan Chuan-Jin. The rest we really can't tahan.
ReplyDeleteDo the free things for good health:
ReplyDelete1. Exercise daily under some direct n indirect sun in green trees environment. Swing your hands n swing your legs vigorously.
2. Drink plenty of clean water n soaked lemon water especially 1st thing in morning n last thing at nite.
3. Eat plenty of garlic, onions, ginger n green well-washed vegetables n fruits.
4. Get a good routine body clock of at least 7 to 8 hrs of sleep.
5. Be happy n be helpful to others. Talk straight.
No secret to good healthy n long life.
It's only comfort the mind.
ReplyDeleteMillions of virus trains!
@ flu-prone oldies
ReplyDeleteComparing with the Oz experience:
1. Here we hvae "quadrivalent" ...i.e. 4 strains in 1 vax.
2. The viruses are not "dead", they are recombinant influenza vaccine (RIV4..."4" meaning quadrivalent), very much ALIVE and attenuated. Vaccines are stored cold, and once taken out you hvae ~20 minutes to administer.
3. Oldies get the vax FOC. Others pay anything from $10 at pharmacy, or $25 at doctor's clinic.
4. Oldies also get pneumonia innoculation FOC. Although influenza kills the old and the young, it is pneumonia which gets many of us in the end. So I suggest you oldies get innoculated against pneumonia.
5. Vaccination won't give you 100% protection. The vaccines are "designed" by using previous DATA collected, which gives some "indication" on how the viruses will mutate. Usually they get it right. Sometimes they don't, because predicting the uncertainty of how an organism mutates is strictly probalistic and not cause-and-effect.
Nature will always be more complicated than what we can predict. Therin lies the rub.
Also you can still get sick even when vacinnated. However, the flu will be a lot milder than if it struck you in an unvaccinated state.
6. Antibiotics don't work against viruses, and can make viral infections worse. Also using antibiotics unneccesarily makes for more antibiotic-resistent strains of bacteria, which means other people will get sick.
7. Unless enough people get vaccinated, the "herd immunity" effect won't kick in. Herd immunity protects those who cannot be vaccinated e.g. those on cancer-treatments, blood issuesor are simply too young or too weak, and have already compromised immune systems.
8. A better way would be to vaccinate children toget herd immunity. But this is expensive (can't expect the kids to pay). So IMO (and I could be wrong about this) I suspect the "cost conscious" sg.gov decides to "encourage" the oldies to get immunized---it's cheaper, plus you can make them PAY, which is straight out of The PAP Manifesto. ๐
9. Best "proactive defense" against the flu is to WASH YOUR HANDS, and avoid anti-social people who cough and sneeze without covering their filthy, infected faces.
Best proactive defense is pay and pay.
ReplyDeleteBest caring garment is pay and pay.
Best way to pay is compulsory deduction from CPF.