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11 Flu Shot Side Effects You Might Mistake for Being Sick
Jul 14, 2020
The flu shot will not actually give you the flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. However, people who get the flu shot may experience muscle soreness, fever or nausea. The CDC recommends getting vaccinated as soon as the shot is available in your area. Generally, it's best to get vaccinated by November .
You get the flu shot to ward off getting sick, but feeling crappy is a common side effect of the vaccine.
Many people mistakenly believe this is because the flu shot causes you to come down with the virus. In fact, according to a 2015 of 1,000 people published in Vaccine, 43 percent believed that getting the flu vaccine could give you the flu.
"The flu shot is a killed flu virus that consists of only half of the virusthe part you need to make an immune response to," Andrew Pekosz, Ph.D., professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, explained to Men's Health. "It's also then administered into your arm muscle, which is not a place the flu virus normally goes to. So there is no possibility you can get the flu from the flu shot."
However, you could experience discomfort from the shot itself, which are very similar to symptoms of the flu.
Common flu shot side effects include :
Pain, redness or swelling near the shot Headache Fever Nausea Sore muscles
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