Flu Shots for Older Parents: Trivalent, Timing, Who Waits
Taking your parents for a flu shot comes with a knot in the stomach beforehand. Wasn’t there something this year about trivalent versus quadrivalent? What if the nurse asks something you can’t answer? Mum has high blood pressure and an egg allergy—can she still get it? Questions like these have been piling up lately. The reason is that both this year’s vaccine composition and the vaccination guidelines have been updated, while advice online has grown muddled. What follows is a family decision guide, in the order you are likely to run into things on the way out the door. ...