{"id":1602,"date":"2011-01-05T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.80\/livingwithkids.co.uk\/should-we-be-panicking-about-our-kids-getting-swine-flu\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:07:31","slug":"should-we-be-panicking-about-our-kids-getting-swine-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/should-we-be-panicking-about-our-kids-getting-swine-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we be panicking about our kids getting swine flu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Yesterday one of my mum friends was ringing round desperately trying to get swine flu jabs for her little girls (aged 10 months and six). &lsquo;I just don&rsquo;t want them to get sick,&rsquo; she told me.  <\/p>\n<p>  I totally understand her concern. Having <a href =\"http:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/livingwithkids\/post\/2009\/11\/03\/Keep-taking-the-Tamiflu.aspx\">experienced swine flu myself<\/a>, I know how nasty it can be. No 1 Son is getting the vaccine next week but only because he&rsquo;s asthmatic; otherwise he wouldn&rsquo;t qualify for it.  <\/p>\n<p>  At the moment, there seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/swine-flu\/8237328\/Pharmacies-refusing-to-vaccinate-children-against-swine-flu.html\">widespread confusion about who should, and who shouldn&rsquo;t be given the jabs<\/a>.&nbsp; Flu levels are increasing in children under five, and yet children who are otherwise healthy don&rsquo;t qualify for the jab on the NHS. And we&rsquo;ve been warned that school-age children are at risk as term begins.  <\/p>\n<p>  But are we panicking unnecessarily? I&rsquo;d love to know what you think.  <\/p>\n<p>  *You can see the symptoms of swine flu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/Conditions\/Pandemic-flu\/Pages\/Symptoms.aspx\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p> written by Liz Jarvis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you want your children to have the swine flu vaccination &#8211; and have you been able to get it for them?","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3501,3348],"tags":[1938,294,1939],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-development-advice","category-lifestyle-tips-for-families","tag-nhs","tag-swine-flu","tag-vaccination"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Should we be panicking about our kids getting swine flu? 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