Karen, and other List-family....
Last week my internist suggested I get the pneumonia vaccine
and also the flu vaccine, citing my ... uhhhh.... "advanced"
age (55 years old) <"advanced" PHOOEY!) <grin> and the
fact that the winter of '97-'98 saw more of individuals over 50
years old hospitalized with flu-caused pneumonia then ANY
previous year in which Kaiser Permanente (my HMO, and the
largest, oldest HMO-system in the USA) kept such records.
My MD also mentioned that in this past winter's flu season
there were more deaths attributed to pneumonia amongst those
over-fifty year olds who were hospitalized because of pneumonia.
I must admit I hesitated and told the MD I'd like to wait till I found
out if there were any known negative Parkinson's interactions
caused by either vaccine before giving him the go-ahead to give
me the vaccines.
Any comments based upon fact would be welcome, 'cause I
recognize I've gotta make up my mind whether to have one or both of the
vaccines within the next coupla-three weeks.
Thanks a lot....
Barb Mallut
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From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Karen deGraaf
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 1998 9:04 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN
Subject: vaccines
Ok fellow listserv partners:
What is the "reading" regarding PWP getting 2 different but recommended
shots for the rest of the world:
Pneumivax (for strep pneumonia, a condition which is hard on folks with
a chronic disease) and Tetanus (which is required at least every 10 years
or, if circumstances require, then earlier).
How does the PWP respond to these "chemicals"?
To do the shot thing or not is the question and of course, going along
with that, the WHY please!
THANKS TO ALL!!
Karen deGraaf 53/6mos (but more like 10 years now that I know more!!)
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