The May 2010 issue of Pediatrics, for example, published a study showing that babies who are breastfed are less likely to have
fevers after their immunizations than babies who are formula fed.
Not exact matches
During and
after immunizations, children may become fussy due to pain,
fever, and other common side effects.
Additionally, the mother's immunity obtained by vaccination against tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough and influenza can protect the baby from these diseases, and breastfeeding can reduce
fever rate
after infant
immunization.
The highest proportion of children with
fever was observed in the 25 µg group, in which 30 % of children had
fever of mild to moderate intensity
after immunization 1.
That said, you might get a runny nose or slight
fever after receiving either form of the vaccination, but «thats just your immune system responding to the vaccine — its not the actual flu,» assures Melinda Wharton, MD, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) s National Center for
Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.