Seasonal Flu vaccination available for £13.99

• Location: 

  Greengates, Bradford

• Posted: 23/09/2009 21:09

Private Seasonal Flu vaccination service available at Clarick Pharmacy Greengates Bradford BD10 0BU for £13.99 per jab.

Why Vaccinate?

Avoiding seasonal flu can be hard, especially if you travel on crowded buses and trains or work in an office environment. Flu is highly infectious and is passed on through sneezing, coughing and hand contact, as well as indirectly from touching infected door handles, telephones etc.


Convenient
Our service means that an experienced and qualified Pharmacist is available at a time that suits you including Saturdays.

Promoting public health
Vaccination is the best prevention against the Seasonal flu virus
and plays a part in helping to protect families and the wider community.

How does the Seasonal flu vaccine work?

The vaccine is very safe and effective. It protects against the viral strains advised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as being the most likely to attack the UK.

The vaccine stimulates your body to make antibodies (chemicals in the blood) that protect against the virus strains. Protection becomes effective about a week after receiving the vaccine. Current vaccines give 70-90% protection against flu. For those who may still get flu, the illness is often milder.

Are there any side effects?
Having a Seasonal flu jab is safe. Experience drawn from approximately 300 million annual doses worldwide shows that it is extremely uncommon to suffer serious side effects. Occasionally there may be some minor discomfort around the injection site and, as with all vaccines, a slight temperature or headache may be experienced 24 hours after receiving the vaccine.

Who should not be vaccinated?
The vaccine is suitable for almost everyone, with a few exceptions. You should not be vaccinated if you:

* have had an allergic reaction to a previous flu vaccine,
* have a serious allergy to eggs,
* are allergic to the medicines neomycin or gentamicin,

Our Pharmacist will always check to make sure it is safe to vaccinate.

If you have any questions regarding the Seasonal flu vaccination please contact Mr Ricketts at Clarick Pharmacy 01274 613475

What is Seasonal Flu?

Seasonal Flu is a respiratory illness caused by the infectious influenza virus. The illness lasts about a week and affects the nose, throat and lungs. Symptoms include headache, high fever, chills, sore throat, aching joints and a dry cough.

There are three main strains of influenza virus - A,B and C and within these strains the virus is constantly changing. Each year the virus is slightly different, its severity is unpredictable. Some flu seasons are worse than others. It depends on the type of flu virus going around and the number of people who are susceptible to it each winter.

Thankfully for the majority of people Seasonal influenza is not a serious illness and they recover fully within one or two weeks. However, in some people complications develop leading to more serious illnesses.

All 'at risk' groups are eligible to receive free seasonal flu jabs from the National Health Service. The Department of Health runs an annual campaign to encourage as many of these people as possible to have a jab.

Our Private service helps complement this programme by offering vaccinations to people who are not eligible for the free NHS service or those who find it more convenient to have it done at a time convenient to them.

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