Flu Shot/Chemo question

[Lauren31]

I delay/selectively vac and was not planning on vaccinating for the flu at all for my little one, it seems a silly vaccine considering I am breastfeeding her, I have a gym in my basement so I am not picking the flu up there, and she is not in daycare or around school aged children except randomly. Well, my mom has breast cancer and will be getting Chemo for 4 months followed by radiation and I am flying back to the states to take care of her. The doc recommended we all get a flu shot when it is available. WWYD?

[MountainMamaGC]

I am immune suppressed and it is not worth getting the flu shot IMO. They dont even have the correct strain most of the time. Plus you want to avoid bringing your child around your mother for 3 weeks following any live virus vaccines including flu, because they shed. I am supposed to avoid people who have got live virus vaccines. I think people under going chemo are supposed to as well.

If you do get it, make sure its a killed vaccine and not the live flu mist.

I would practice good hygeine and keep sick people away from her.

[caned & able]

Ask your mother's oncologist what he suggests.

No recently vaxed person can be around an immunosuppressed person, especially the shedding, live, viral vaccines.

I have been in three situations in which this was told to me.

[SubliminalDarkness]

My DH was on chemo last flu season. He got flu shots, the kids and I did not.

[Panserbjorne]

when my mother has done chemo we have not done flu shots. A doc strong armed my father, but none of the kids (who see her weekly) or the grandkids have done it. I'd consider it if I actually thought it did anything.