Dr. Numb for Flu Vaccination

Flu is a common disease which is known to affect millions of people every year especially during the fall season. Flu leads to sneezing, coughing and body weakness and in worst cases, the patient even needs to be hospitalized.

Due to the devastating health effects of Flu, doctors recommend flu shot or Influenza shot before the flu season comes. Before or during the flu season you will come across many advertisements in newspapers, magazines and television commercials encouraging you to take preventive flu shots.

How Flu Spreads?

Experts say that flu viruses spread due to droplets secreted by people while coughing, sneezing or even talking. Anyone coming in contact with these droplets can easily catch infection. The symptoms of Flu are visible sometime after the infection gets transferred.

People under certain age group and medical conditions are more vulnerable to catch infection than others. Older people, young children, pregnant women and people suffering from asthma, diabetes, or heart disease are potentially at higher risk than others.

Though no one can clearly predict Flu outbreaks during a season but everyone is well aware of the severe effects of flu. Flu resulted into 3,000 to 49,000 deaths between the years 1976 to 2006.  

Why Do We Need Flu Vaccination?

Flu not only causes sneezing and body cramps but also leads to viral respiratory infections, bacterial infections and further complications. Thus, it is important to treat flu on time else it can affect lungs and other body parts. Since prevention is better than cure therefore, it is advisable to go for flu vaccinations to save both your health and money.

The flu vaccinations can help to stimulate the production of antibodies and fight against the flu virus. So, this will nullify the affect of flu virus on vaccinated person by destroying the viruses which attack the person.

Who All Should Get Vaccinated Against Flu?

Doctors recommend that every individual above 6 months should be vaccinated for the flu. People with some specific medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, chronic lung disease, pregnancy should definitely go for flu vaccination as they are at higher risk of getting infected. Also elderly people (above 65 years of age) should also go for flu vaccination to avoid developing infections due to flu.  

Flu vaccinations

If you haven’t vaccinated yet against flu then it’s time to visit your GP and get your dose of flu vaccination.  Here are the common types of flu vaccinations to protect you against flu.

Trivalent flu vaccine helps to prevent outbreak of two influenza A viruses (an H1N1 and an H3N2) and an influenza B virus. 

The quadrivalent flu vaccine reduces risk of two influenza A viruses and two influenza B viruses.

Numbing Creams for Flu Vaccination

Immunization or vaccination involves pain because the needle is pricked into the person’s skin for injecting the vaccine. This makes it difficult for many children and people to go for vaccinations because of their high sensitivity towards pain. The vaccination can even result into swelling and pain which may last for a couple of days. But avoiding the vaccination just because of pain and discomfort is not a wise decision. So, a numbing cream is the best solution for all those who fear pain of injections.

A good numbing cream such as Dr Numb can numb the area where the vaccination is to be given and make it easier for the patient to bear the pain.  

Dr Numb is a popular numbing cream which is used in various dermatological procedures for a pain free treatment. Dr Numb cream is found to have 5% lidocaine which is the safest amount allowed permitted by FDA. You need to apply Dr numb cream 20 – 30 minutes before going for the vaccination.