Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Health & Healthcare => Topic started by: Lorraine on October 11, 2012, 12:50:11 PM
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Just been into Fethiye this morning, had a flu jab done in the chemist opposite Migros - 10TL. Also stocked up with a host of remedies to see me through the winter months whilst away at work, extremley helpful staff and very good prices.
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Had mine done on Saturday, 10TL in English Chemist (Serhat) opp Migros in town.
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Loz & I are having ours on Monday, N.H.S. Free, Nada, Zifir, Buckshee.!! ;) Good Old N.H.S.
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Tesco for me on Monday - £10.00 and no staff discount for me :(
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Free on the NHS! But for how long?
(http://s13.postimage.org/7hav52orn/profiteers_from_privatised_NHS.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/7hav52orn/)
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I knew the MPs had business interests in the NHS but not Wayne Rooney, shown bottom row far right side.
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all the staff in work last year who had the jab went off sick with the FLU
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Free for us yes, unfortunately, 1. Gordon is over 60 2. I am diabetic. :(
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all the staff in work last year who had the jab went off sick with the FLU
How unlucky - nothing to do with the jab though as it's not a live vaccine. It's a myth it can give you the flu.
As it says in this article - if you don't think you are dying then it's probably not flu you have but a bad cold:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theoneshow/consumer/2008/11/21/can-the-flu-jab-give-you-the-f.html
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It worth every penny of the £10.00 charged in the U.K. for this service as Flu and a bad cold are so different.
If you are eligible to get it free even better, but IMO it's far better to be protected against flu before the Winter comes on . I seem to remember one year a very bad outbreak of Flu and everyone clamouring to get injections and stocks where really low.
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one of the few perks of working for the NHS is a free flu jab! Previous answer exactly right, you CANNOT catch flu, it is not a live vaccine, you can feel 'off colour' potentially for a few days and have a sore arm. Anyone who does go down with full blown flu after a jab, has had the bad luck to be already incubating it!
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I used to get it free on the NHS till they suddenly moved the goalposts and said I didn't have Asthma bad enough to qualify.....
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My first one after we returned to the UK was offered by my GP who told me "we are recommending it to all our older patients"!!!