Sentences with phrase «nasal spray vaccine»

To avoid soreness altogether, ask for FluMist, the needle - free nasal spray vaccine (unless you're pregnant, over 50, or have a chronic condition like asthma — the spray isn't yet approved for those folks).
Click to view article: Flu vaccine rates in children may drop when the nasal spray vaccine is unavailable
«Would this recommendation against nasal spray vaccine shake people's confidence in the influenza vaccine in general or make them less likely to get it because they have to get a shot?»
LAIV is a nasal spray vaccine developed specifically for young people, but there are limited safety data for its use in young people with egg allergy and / or asthma.
To create the weakened flu strain contained in FluMist, the brand name of the nasal spray vaccine, nine mutations in the flu virus were made.
For their research, Pekosz and his team, using human nasal tract cells, studied the weakened strain of the flu virus that is used in the nasal spray vaccine and compared its behavior with that of the flu virus itself.
Children ages six months to two years can receive an injectable flu vaccine, but the nasal spray vaccine is recommended in children between the ages of two and eight because it is believed to give better protection than the shot.
Some Vaccine in Latest Recall Administered by Oneida County Health Department «Potency of Nasal Spray Vaccine in Question — Safety Not an Issue» The Oneida County Health Department's current supply of H1N1 flu vaccine will not be affected by the latest voluntary manufacturer's recall of the product, Daniel W. Gilmore, Acting Director of the department said.
If your child is under age 9 and receiving the flu shot or nasal spray vaccine for the first time, it's recommended that he get two doses at least four weeks apart.
There are both injectable and nasal spray vaccines available.

Not exact matches

Note: The CDC and AAP do not recommend the nasal spray flu vaccine (FluMist) for the 2016 - 2017 season because it isn't effective.
Not only would the new method, tested only in mice, be more convenient but also more effective than the flu shot or nasal spray, according to a study at the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul.
And children older than 2 can receive the nasal spray form of the vaccine, which does not contain thimerosal either.
The nasal spray flu vaccine, Flu Mist, is available for those ages 9 — 49.
Findings from this study of flu vaccines delivered by a small needle intradermally parallel earlier results that found adding a strain of influenza B could improve the effectiveness of a flu vaccine nasal spray and a traditional intramuscular vaccine that is injected as a shot in the arm muscle.
If a vaccine is to protect the intestines and other mucous membranes in the body, it also needs to be given through the mucosa, for example as a nasal spray or a liquid that is drunk.
There are different forms of flu vaccine, including a nasal spray for people who don't like shots.
In any case, most people have a choice of getting the flu vaccine by injection or nasal spray, so fear of needles is typically no excuse, Rakita says.
Instead of stirring up powerful T cells through an injected amyloid vaccine, they used a nasal spray containing two drugs that provoke a less robust but more manageable immune response.
Those findings could mean that vaccines delivered via nasal spray instead of shots might stimulate memory T cell growth in the nose and could protect lungs from damage as well.
Influenza vaccination rates in children may have decreased for the 2016 - 2017 influenza season because of a recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the nasal spray version of the vaccine not be used, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
Two vaccines for swine flu — a nasal spray that contains weakened virus and a shot that contains inactivated virus — were approved in September, but skepticism and worry about such new vaccines may prevent people from taking advantage of them.
(Another type of flu vaccine, administered through a nasal spray, is made from live, weakened influenza viruses and is not recommended for people with underlying medical conditions.)
(The FluMist vaccine, which is delivered via nasal spray, can cause wheezing and should be avoided by asthmatics.)
(Pregnant women should not get the nasal spray form of the flu vaccine, which contains a weakened live virus.)
The nasal - spray version of the vaccine, called the FluMist, (which is FDA - approved for kids and adults between ages two and 49 who are healthy and not pregnant) does contain a crippled version of live flu virus.
Bordetella vaccines (either nasal sprays or injections) are commonly given to dogs who will be spending time in a boarding kennel or animal shelter — anyplace where there are lots of other dogs.
(Shouldn't you know how viruses mutate to jump species BEFORE spraying live mutated virus nasal vaccines around that were cultured in companion animal cells?
Scientists were able to come up with a preventive measure, which is a vaccine that can be given through an injection or nasal spray.
However, the viruses contained in the nasal - spray flu vaccine are attenuated (weakened), which means they can not cause flu illness.
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