The best way to help prevent influenza infection is to get an influenza vaccination each year, usually in early November. This vaccine is to be administered only by or under the supervision of your doctor or other health care professional. In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. Influenza vaccine available in the U.S. or Canada may contain these antibiotics in very small amounts.
Influenza vaccine is grown in the fluids of chick embryos.
In addition, only a split-virus influenza vaccine should be given to children 6 months to 12 years of age. Some side effects of the vaccine, such as fever, unusual tiredness or weakness, or aches or pains in muscles, are more likely to occur in infants and children, who are usually more sensitive than adults to the effects of influenza vaccine. This vaccine is not expected to cause different side effects or problems in older persons than it does in younger adults. Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary.