Pediatrician Jaime Unda pointed out that biological flu reduces the risk of complications, mainly related to cardiovascular disease.
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In an interview he warns that both people with chronic degenerative diseases and those without any type of disease are likely to present some complications in case of getting sick with the flu.
He recommended to the general population that, before the high season – in December, January and February – go to get vaccinated, the protection starts fifteen days after the application of the dose.
The flu vaccine showed damage to the cardiovascular system: “If a person is vaccinated against the flu, it will reduce the risk of having a heart attack tenfold, eight times of having a stroke, and this is also in healthy people. If you get vaccinated against the flu, you are already reducing your risk of having a heart attack by about 45 percent. “
The pediatrician recalled that people under five and over 60 have a higher risk of complications, as do those with chronic degenerative, kidney, lung or autoimmune diseases.
Children under the age of two, the pediatrician stressed, have a higher risk of complications: “they can go to ear infections, or secondary infections, develop secondary pneumonia due to a pathogen, in particular streptococcus pneumoniae , which is caused by pneumonia “.
In addition, he noted that the flu can manifest itself with other types of viruses, bacteria, Covid19 and respiratory syncytial to name; To prevent the risk in the infant population, she pointed out that between six months of age and less than five years, two doses of influenza should be given with an interval of four weeks.
The flu vaccine is freely available in the public health sector for people with risk factors, but private health spaces also have doses and the cost can vary.
24 cases of influenza and one death have been confirmed in Jalisco, the variant with the highest circulation is H3N2 and there are 1,914 additional cases of influenza-like illness / severe acute respiratory infection.
