Asthmatics should be careful with the influenza vaccine

Asthmatics should be careful with the influenza vaccine


Asthmatics should not get vaccinated against influenza because the vaccine can cause adverse reactions

The Chief of Allergology, University Hospital Insular de Gran Canaria and Canary Society President Anselmo Sanchez Palacios Allergy believes that asthmatics should not get vaccinated against influenza because the vaccine can cause adverse reactions.

The allergist, who is also the chairman of the Organizing Committee of the European Congress of asthma Interasma "09 to be held in Gran Canaria from 22 to 25 September, he said vaccinations circumscribe the H1N1 flu strain to those" severe asthma " with "chronic bronchitis" and very designed to colds or flu conventional told Europa Press.

Instead, the opinion of the Ministry of Health seems to be the opposite, as its general secretary, José Martínez Olmos, said last August that asthmatics "probably going to be part of the risk groups" that receive a priority the vaccine against the H1N1 influenza virus in autumn because they are "patients with chronic respiratory disease.

Sanchez Palacios said "the real pandemic of the XXI century are allergies." "In the last 100 years we have reduced infectious diseases, but increased allergies and autoimmune diseases. And in fifteen years, half the world population will be allergic to something."