Name: Doctors Debunk 15 Flu Myths
Uploaded: 2020-11-03T18:27:28.000Z
Duration: 9 min 41 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

you can't spread the flu if you don't have symptoms.

You can't get the flu shot if you're sick.

I'm Robert Jacobs, and I'm a professor of pediatrics at Mayo Clinic.

Listen, if you have a mild illness like a cough or runny nose or a low grade fever, you are not off the hook.

Now, some people who are recovering from Cove in 19 will wonder should they get the flu shot?

And yes, they should as soon as they've recovered from the acute phase of their cove in 19 infection and are no longer contagious.

Myth to the flu vaccine gives you the flu.

The flu vaccine doesn't contain anything that could give you the flu infection.

We're not seeing any more rates of illnesses after the flu vaccine than we would if we were giving a placebo injection of salt water.

If you have a couple of aches or pains or you feel unwell, consider this being assigned that your immune system is working.

It is not too late to get the flu shot as long as the flu viruses circulating and that season is from October all the way through May.

Yes, you should get it a soon as it's available.

If somehow you didn't get it in October and November, you can't get the flu after you've had the flu shot.

I wish we had a flu vaccine that was 100% effective.

We don't, but it's not zero a percent effective either.

It does work most years, about half the time, and it turns out in preventing half the cases.

We can actually prevent outbreaks and spreads.

It is our best chance, and the majority of time you will be protected against getting the flu.

And this year, with Cove in 19 we have to do everything we can to prevent every single case.

Ah, couple of reasons why you may still get the flu.

You may have been exposed to the virus right before you got the vaccine so the vaccine didn't have time to kick in to.

You might be exposed to other strains of the flu that weren't in the vaccine.

Your immune system may not have mounted a strong enough response to the vaccine or four.

You have some other virus, and it's not actually the flu.

Well, it's typically affected for the entire flu season, which is about six months.

But then the immunity starts to wane, and also the types of viruses or the strains of viruses that cause infections could mutate.

We don't have a crystal ball, so the way it works is scientists from around the world come together every year and make their best guess at which strains of the flu virus, because there are a bunch of them, should be included in the flu vaccine based on which are the most dangerous or which are the most prevalent meaning which are the ones that are circulating so we don't get it right 100% of the time.

But the truth is, this is the best guests, and it's based on predictive analytics and based on science and based on history.

Studies recently in the past years have shown, while it's not 100% effective, those who get sick with the flu despite getting the flu vaccine have a milder course, then those who didn't get the flu Vaccine myths.

You shouldn't get the flu shot while pregnant.

You should absolutely get the flu shot while you're pregnant.

The last thing you would want is to get sick with an illness.

I could land you in the hospital while you're pregnant.

We now recognize pregnancy as being one of the big risk factors for getting a bad case of the flu.

And it does give the baby in the first six months of life some protection against the flu, which otherwise we can't solve because our flu vaccines don't work in babies under six months of age, it protects you and the baby, too.

Many times people get the flu and don't recognize it's the flu.

It's also a great way to protect your Children, your loved ones, your relatives in your neighbors.

If I could prevent myself from getting something and stay healthy, why wouldn't I do that?

It's so important that even if you may have a mild case of the flu, it doesn't mean that you may not spread it to family members and loved ones.

Nine antibiotics will treat a flu infection.

All I need is a Z pack, and I'm going to be better.

I wish that people would understand Antibiotics actually have very little role in treating most of the colds, coughs and illnesses that we get during the year.

No, the flu can be a killer We don't have people who die of the common cold.

Every year we have in the United States, tens of thousands of people end up in the critical care unit, tens of thousands who die from the flu.

You know, the only thing that's similar is that the flu is a virus and a cold is caused by viruses.

And some of the symptoms can be overlapping where you can have a fever, cough or runny nose or sore throat.

Consider the flu about 100 even 1000 times worse than a cold myth.

You can't get the flu more than once a year.

There is a chance that you can get the flu more than once a year.

We right now vaccinate against four strains of the flu with our vaccines, so we do a pretty good job with the vaccine and preventing those four strains.

But that means there's four strains circulating every year.

That means you could have four different outbreaks in a single individual.

There's a chance you could be infected with a different strain of the flu, and there's also a chance that maybe your immune system didn't mount a strong enough response to the flu vaccine in the first place.