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Are there any contradictions between taking flu vaccine and antibiotic at the same time? |
Are there any contradictions between taking flu vaccine and antibiotic at the same time? Nina, Not really a "contradiction." It may not be necessary or helpful to do both, however, because antibiotics and most vaccines do very different jobs. Normally (there are exceptions--more on that in a minute) a vaccine is targeted aganst a virus. Unhappily, antibiotics do not attack viruses, so most often the vaccine's "arming" your body's defenses against the virus is the only way we have of killing it. Once in a while, your immune system can be so depleted fighting the virus that it allows a bacterial infection to begin. That's when an antibiotic is useful, against what is called an "Opportunistic infection" by a bacteria. There is one case, however, when a vaccine and an antibiotic can be used together, and that is when the infection is bacterial, and the vaccine that you were given is against that bacteria. There are quite a few vaccines against bacteria (such as against the bubonic plague), and while we normally don't need to use both a vaccine adn an antibiotic, both can be used simultaneously to attack that bacteria if the infection is particularly virulent. Yes you should not get the flu vaccine if you are antibiotics for an infection or if you are sick or have a cold. |
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